SanDisk Sansa Range Gains Sansa slotRadio Memory Card Audio Player

SanDisk have announced a new digital audio player soon to join its Sansa
range of DAPs - the SanDisk Sansa slotRadio - a card-plus-player device
which relies on slotRadio cards that comes with '1,000 songs handpicked
from the Billboard charts'.

'slotRadio's unprecedented simplicity will have even the most
time-pressed music fans enjoying a huge range of music in no time,' said
Daniel Schreiber, senior vice president and general manager, SanDisk,
who introduced the SanDisk Sansa slotRadio. '1,000 handpicked songs in
your pocket with zero downloads makes enjoying digital music easier than
ever. Never before has music been this accessible.'

The die-cast aluminum Sansa slotRadio itself comes with a 1.5' OLED
display and, whilst the preloaded mSD cards cannot be played by other,
standard DAPs they will purportably be compatible with other similar
players such as Sansa's Fuze DAP which each preloaded card (which will
be loaded with 1,000 tracks from your chosen genre of music) set to
retail at around $40.

Interestingly, from what we can gather from Sansa's press release,
though you can choose the type of music you want you will not actually
be able to handpick individual tracks to develop your own playlist,
instead receiving a selection of '�handpicked' tracks '�professionally
arranged into a variety of genre-themed playlists' - something that we
suspect will appeal to very few people (certainly not us).

The SanDisk Sansa slotRadio will set you back just shy of $100 and is
set for release in early 09 (no specific date provided).