SanDisk Sansa SlotRadio

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Introducing slotRadio – the instant load music player bundled with a 1,000 song slotRadio Mix card. No downloads, no PCs and no work involved. Simply pop the card in the player and enjoy a near-endless supply of full-length tracks. It’s great music, made effortless. The slotRadio player is a small, stylish music player that comes bundled with a slotRadio Mix card preloaded with 1,000 full-length songs featuring artists from the Billboard charts, and professionally arranged into a variety of genre-themed playlists. The die-cast aluminum player also features a 1.5” OLED screen for viewing artist and song information, FM radio and even an integrated, handy belt clip for hands-free listening. Additional slotRadio cards available, each with 1,000 full-length premium songs. It’s great music, made effortless.

SanDisk liked itself to MP3-Player not in such a way for several years, can it as iPod, but they had always a very respectable set of participants with a decent piece of the market. After the attempt to influence technology ingenuous from the CD and for cards microSD with the SlotMusic player, SanDisk is returned to conquer the heart of the listeners of the radius in 2009 with the Sansa SlotRadio. Using a loaded card microSD with 1.000 songs in more kinds, SanDisk hopes to emulate the radius with a torsion: technically she is owner of all the pieces. You choose a kind and to press play. Although SanDisk varnishes as a contested perfect solution in order to-tech or finishes them lazy people that cannot be disturbed with the music management, skeptics will see like crippled DRM reader MP3 seriously. Who has reason? It depends from where stand.

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Features :

The slotRadio™ player is a small, stylish, portable music device that comes bundled with a slotRadio™ card preloaded with 1,000 handpicked songs featuring artists from Billboard®'s charts, and professionally arranged into a variety of genre-themed playlists.

The die-cast aluminum player also features a 1.5” OLED screen for viewing artist and song information, a FM radio and even an integrated, handy belt clip for hands-free listening. Additional 1,000 song, genre-specific and themed slotRadio™ cards. Digital music has never been this easy – just feast your ears!

1000 Songs Handpicked Playlist : Enjoy 1000 songs*, preloaded on the slotRadio™ card with nothing to download, copy, or manage.

Easy Navigation : No menus to navigate, just insert a card and enjoy. Change the playlist by pressing a button or skip to the next song.

FM Radio : Get all your favorite FM news, talk, sports, and music.

Hands Free : Solid aluminum clip built-in.

Just Add Cards : Play slotRadio™ and slotMusic™ cards on slotRadio™ player.


Specification :

Minimum System Requirements : slotRadio™ card, slotMusic™ card or microSD™ card with MP3 or WMA files. No PC or Internet connectivity required

Capacity : Zero on-board memory, includes slotRadio™ card with 1000 songs

Colors : Silver

Expansion Slot : microSD/SDHC

Headphone Jacks : 1

Radio : FM tuner with presets

File Support : MP3, WMA

Connection : USB 2.0

Battery : Up to 13 hours slotRadio™ playback

Music Subscriptions : N/A


Box Includes :

• Sansa® slotRadio™ player
  
  
• slotRadio™ mix card with 1000 songs
  
  
• AC Adapter
  
  
• Earbuds
  
  
• USB cable
  
  
• slotRadio™ card case
  
  
• Silicone sleeve for player
  
  
• Quick Start Guide

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Design :

The proprietors of SanDisk previous SlotMusic player feel immediately familiarized with the SlotRadio, that essentially morfos in a compact one and is squared of a 1.5 inches screen YOU SMELL monochrome. Like the original one, SanDisk has maintained the very high quality of construction for that budget device. All the parts except the face are of solid metal, with satin finishing that shines strong and resistant to the digital tracks. Since it uses a reloadable internal battery, he is also much more light that the SlotMusic, that uses alkaline batteries. A gigantic image in which it can again be useful to run or simply to use it in the city.

Music :

Our SlotMusic player came voorgeladen with seven different canals: rock, country music, urban, contemporary, alternative, training, and chillout. They have been all clearred from Billboard charts, but for us that seemed a better indicator would recognise that we gladly took then that want we music. Even on the stations we will correspond identify as that to our musical tastes, of each two or three songs our reach for skip-knop had. You can it use this way frequently such as you want, natural, but considering you have paid for 1,000 numbers, weed that many numbers, and sometimes even complete canals (that can claim that as all seven genres?) Fast make you will realise itself that there not this way many " listenable" music thought on this apparatus such as your. It would have to be in a position to picking up the special papers in future that to a single type of kind, but will be executed an other $ 40 to head, and means also that there are various papers in order to carry with himself when a step for the days of CD and cassettes is travelled behind.


Sailing with the incorporated one in radio FM it does not seem as intuitive as one built-in radio must be, in spite of the reception and transmitter RDS identification label was excellent. You can sail between the stations using the keys of shoots with an arrow, but a single click only moves in small increases of 0.1MHz. The celebration down will treat, but you will quickly have time for the release, since to only maintain the exploration in a direction, if you must lower. This means that you will have to dominate the exact press and time of delay for an exploration and until in one, that becomes an exhausting exercise to sail by all the quadrant, and it always does the question to him of if there are lost a station by means of the celebration of is too long. It becomes easier after forming preadjustments, but still it is possible to be advanced only through them pressing the game, not it back. Quality of sound with the earpieces including not removing many complaints, and the player had more sufficient juice of hunger to the power a pair of earpieces without distortion, we made but it with a ecualizador lose - a characteristic that even the majority of the super players estimated to somehow manage to tighten in these days.

Included with the player is a MicroSD memory card pre-loaded with 1000 Billboard songs. The songs are sorted in 7 categories:

1. Country (George Stait, Kenny Chesny and others)
   
   
2. Contemporary (Coldplay, Maroon 5 and others)
   
   
3. R&B/Hip Hop (Akon, Chris Brown and others)
   
   
4. Alternative (Hinder, Kaiser Chiefs and others)
   
   
5. Rock (3 Doors down, U2 and others)
   
   
6. Workout (Bestie Boys, Fatboy Slim and others)
   
   
7. Chillout (Shakira, Sarah MacLachlan and others)

User-friendly to the extreme :

The SlotRadio player has a beautiful, stable will feel. It measures 1.9 tariff largely around 1,9 cm broad around 0,6 tariff deeply, consists mainly of aluminum, and covers an integrated in belt tie-clip - a popular feature after SanDisk research. A small monochrome screen on the front of the player shows the transmitter name, current title next TRACK, and an animated diagram of topic accommodations around the current transmitter. Two arrows flanking the screen make it for you possible, over by stations, while only one FF key can on the right edge is used, over jump over traces, which do not like you. The player volume keys also dedicated (is on the left side of the spinal column), and the ground is the standard headphone connection and a mini USB connection for loading. The final physical characteristics encase SlotRadio the players some possibilities. It is natural, the microSD map Slot, itself the not only SlotRadio maps, but also the album-based maps for the SlotMusic players and all other microSD maps, which loaded you, with music. There is also a switch with three attitudes: Play out, FM, and. To play Flip it, and your SlotRadio map automatically the rendition. The FM mode arrive you at the integrated FM-Tuner, of where out you know the Presets and Scan frequencies. The equipment is compatible with the radio Broadcast DATA system (RBDS), then shows it calls letters and other data (like e.g. TRACK name) that the station sends together with its audio.

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SanDisk SlotRadio Player :

" SlotRadio drastically reduces these obstructions, offers a real alternative for the existing options, " Noam Kedem, Vice president or product said management, SanDisk. " This makes lock radio a perfect player for ingedrukte-for-time the mother, harried the traveller, can' t stopper now fitness freak, as well as everyone who wants relax simply and discovering new numbers, or again discovers a timeless favourite. "

Controls and Usage :

Faithfully to the slotMusic concept, there are not much on developing the player. Drie-weg a switch omhoog above move it to eliminate, radioradio radio or MP3' s, and play-knop on the they side get tunes to play. Impressions of the managerial arrows to Right or left of the baffle changes gear between seven different stations, which each other on the baffle as to dot on a line, which does think of a traditional radio tuner. Although it feels intuitively, we want the arrows were something more easily too busy on at the service of the one handed.

Much was done of what you can and cannot make with songs on SlotRadio, to allow us to release jusqu' with: It feels exactly as with l' listen to radio in the car, but with a button of jump to pass from l' horrible of the songs which, inevitably, of the cultures in place. C' is the only means technically, you can " choisir" the songs, left passage between the stations. You cannot traverse the contents of the chart, make lists of reading, or to even return to l' listen to song which you like and which you want to hear again. (Technically, if you want really d' to listen again, you can traverse l' together some 140-odd songs on the station to obtain in return.) If you had l' hope of l' listen to your music on a computer, you can scrape that, too. In this moment, SlotRadio charts does not function qu' with the player and SlotRadio Sansa Fuze. Telephone cell of support is on the way, but you will have the same play that you have restrictions on the reader.

Sansa SlotRadio For a player without bellboys back, seemed to us very idiot of SanDisk to combine the reproduction, slows down and advance in a button of functions. When doing click once it jumps in front of a track, maintaining that the pauses, and to click starts again the reproduction again. It accidentally clicks too fast instead of to be pleased, irreversible and that it has thrown his track instead of a pause for later. Whoops. SanDisk has not thought to include a warehouse bellboys, of accidental way to jump a track when arriving in the pocket to remove it is possible, also.

Advantage :

The SanDisk Sansa SlotRadio is extraordinarily simple to serve, and no computer is necessary. Song are very cheap, and the player also a FM-Tuner and an integrated belt tie-clip

Disadvantage :

The SanDisk Sansa SlotRadio suffer mediocre sound quality, and music it goes, it has been bolted to the cards. Auditors are subject to grill of the Billboard music redacteuren.

The Bottom Line :

The SanDisk Sansa SlotRadio is very lungi from your reader MP3 standard and the persons with persnickety music preferences will not be hit, but the device is a perfect solution for those who they prefer an approach when music draft types them.

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Accessories : SanDisk have a respectable accessory cord for the lock radio player. Usual suspected ear tel. and microUSB include cable for data, but we had been also gladly surprised outlet-naar-USB-stekker for load without pc., and a good built Zippered travels small pocket.

Performance : You undoubtedly believed to understand that the player n' is not SlotRadio for the amateurs of audio numerical. In a foreseeable way, it n' is not for the purists of l' audio. The quality of the sound is in the average: it n' ya not of whistle or to distort the basic play, but the low one is feeble and of top-of-the-range detail is rather felted. If you are after brilliance, crunching its, you will not find here. However, the reader adapted to his objective, and us n' let us not have really s' to wait an excellent d' sound quality; such a device. It would be well if the lifespan of the piles were noted higher than 13 hours, if.

Conclusion : The SlotRadio occupies an improbable one in native place in between the world of music. With the exception of a real reader MP3, it is not possible to choose the songs. With the exception of the radius, it is not to live. With the exception of the G2 seats, music is not free, and it is not on measure for yours to all the tastes. We know that accidental for it is gotten passionate of music, so as to not to compare to other readers MP3, but not also battery a lot favorably regarding the normal school radius FM: the songs are not always fresh, must acquire, coast a lot more than a player, and it is not even the more variety. The ability to go, even if ahead beautiful, own do not seem to justify the price of 100 $ of this player, more the cost than continued purchase new music that does not seem just, also in meaningful way. If you are a fan of accidental music that cannot be the briga to maintain to a MP3 collection, and that it enjoys Billboard hits, to save your money and the stick of radius FM.