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SanDisk Modifies the Sansa Connect and Shaker

By: Travis Booysen on August 15, 2007 11:08 PM

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SanDisk are introducing adjustments to two of their Sansa players. Firstly, without dropping any qualities from the Sansa Connect a sizeable $100 has been cut from its price. The 4GB player will now retail for $150, on top of which the unlimited WiFi downloads from Yahoo! Music Unlimited come at a monthly charge of $15.

The second change is to the Sansa Shaker. Previously available in a single storage capacity of 512MB, a 1GB model is also presented by Sandisk. The 512MB and 1GB models are now $35 and $50 respectively.

[Product Page via Engadget]

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Utew on August 15, 2007 11:42 PM

Modify? Since when has lowering the price ever been considered a modification? Poor usage of words on Engadget's part IMO...

Other than that, the biggest disappointment to me on the Connect, was it's being hand-cuffed to Yahoo. this ruined the net radio aspect in my mind, otherwise I would have been really interested in this player.

The Shaker is a neat concept for kids.. it's a toy and 512 GB seems about right.. keep it low priced.. bumping to 1Gb is non-news frankly.

aaa on August 16, 2007 1:14 AM

"Modify" seems to be Travis's choice of word Utew

Utew on August 16, 2007 2:00 AM

I swear I read *Modify* in the Engadget article before reading it here.. I may be dreaming but I believe they changed the topic header...

EnzoTen on August 16, 2007 8:31 AM

Must be an Australian thing... =)

Yeah it is a bit awkward, but i dont know what other word you could use.

iamtheworld on August 16, 2007 5:46 PM

how about "change"? =p

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