Opinions on SanDisk Sansa MP3 player

[dealforme]

My MP3 player finally died and I was looking for a cheap replacement.

FS has the SanDisk Sansa 1GB for $49.99 this week
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?sku_id=0665000FS10071347&logon=&langid=EN&MSCSProfile=3C79F0C7EA3162B21FF208C41AAB815BA7F5FC C1B8DC7D02DA1E0097B0895584B588027045D7193E39E66787 2284B361B7126D9074388C8DAECE429A8374E6AEDC60A521CB E8A0EA7843FCCCFC6DF01358D66C295C515A11F0F079D1F94A F80ED335B5949A1E824AA029576722057D20D332848BED1549 51

I've read some good reviews on it but I would like to hear from my favourite online community.

[googoo]

I bought the 512 meg one and it works great, even the FM radio is pretty strong

[rabbit]

Personally, I wouldn't get one that doesn't have some kind of memory slot.

[equalizr]

I have the 8gig sansa E200 and comes with a memory slot that takes 2-4gig micro sd.

Great player as i only paid $199 back a few months ago at FS

[CameraBill]

I've got the 2 gig version.

Got a line straight through from left to right on the LCD that doesn't work.
Happened about 3 months after I got it on Boxing day.

Battery life is ho hum. Maybe 12hrs on a full charged 900mAH rechargable.

Sound quality is OK. More than better enough considering it's only playing MP3s

Some weirdness with it though. I tried to use it as a data flash drive between two XP computers. Each recognized and only showed one of the two different partions on the MP3 player. The CPU that recognized the wrong partition however didn't even have a service pack installed.

More than happy with it though considering the price. Would buy again over the competition.

I'ld never get a mini player that didn't take AAAs. Battery life should be at least 2x the recorded material.