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WiFi: Sansa Connect's Edge over iPod

Edward C. Baig wrote a column in USA Today entitled:

Sansa Connect does stuff you wish Apple's iPod would

(here are a few excerpts)


"SanDisk's new Sansa Connect music player — with built-in Wi-Fi ability — is the sweetest challenger to the iPod I've seen. The Connect is the only portable I'd at least consider buying over one of Apple's iconic devices...

"SanDisk's 4-gigabyte flash-based device isn't perfect. But I wish its Wi-Fi networking and other appealing features were included on iPods. There are other music players with Wi-Fi out there. On balance, Connect looks better and is easier to use... With Yahoo To Go, you get customized Internet radio stations, photos through Flickr, plus the ability to download subscription songs to the gadget without a computer. Through Yahoo Messenger, you can also swap recommendations with friends or see what other Connect users on the same Wi-Fi network are listening to...

"I'm a fan of these rent-a-tune services that let you listen to a boatload of music for a fraction of the cost of buying individual 99-cent downloads. It's pretty simple to download subscription tracks wirelessly from Yahoo to the Connect, with a huge assist from a mobile entertainment technology start-up called Zing. Yahoo offers more than 2 million songs...

"Sansa's chief drawback — it's a biggie — is the inability to search for specific songs or artists. To find The Sweet Escape by Gwen Stefani, I had to scroll through a list of Yahoo's top songs and hope it was there. It was..."

Read More In: My Sansa Sansa Connect

The latest news and information about the SanDisk Sansa line of MP3 players: Sansa Connect, Sansa Express, Sansa Shaker, and more.


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