Actually, the old Clip isn't all that bad looking, but this certainly looks decent. But 4GB? Super. Too bad the battery is the same as the iPod shuffle's.

One thing it has over the shuffle is a screen though ;)
Even a rudimentary screen is better than no screen.

Now someone should make a headphone dock for it like the (crappy) iFreePlay. Wired earbuds are so 2007...

Any Bluetooth connectivity available for this Cuttie?

This is actually a decent little player!

Got a chance to handle one and hear it with my earbuds and it's a solid performer.

EVEN IN THE PICTURE THE BATTERY'S LOW...CRAPPY ADVERTISING...

I HAD a Sansa Express and I just returned it.

The firmware is retarded. I hope they made serious improvements bc I am sort of impressed.

15 hours for 4gb of music and a screen on it. I don't think that's too bad...because there are things I do during the day in which I don't listen to music. I only bought an Ipod Shuffle because I had a hard time finding the Sansa Clip - Best Buy didn't have it - Wal-Mart, Target, Circuit City all negative on the Clip. So, I bought what I could find - and that was the Ipod Shuffle. However, I never run out of battery power on it - mostly because I use it at work for 9 hours and then when I work out at night for an hour - so I never have an issue. I imagine you'll find yourself a plug before you run out of battery power on this little thing. I *WISH* my shuffle had a screen of some sort.

Wow, that's a really nice looking player. Nice!

4GB Sansa e260 on buy.com right now i believe.

I just recently bought a 2GB Clip and it is awesome.
I dont understand why anyone would buy any other flash player.
- it uses standard mini USB cable (no proprietary crap like Apple, Microsoft, et al)
- requires no extra software install(plug and play)
- can use Exporer to simply drag drop folders or individual songs
-it has a clip! perfect for exercising/riding bike/etc
- easy interface = easy to use
- it has buttons! great changing songs/volume when exercising
- It has a FM radio built in
- it has a voice recorder built in

- oh, and it is VERY tiny. I keep it clipped to my jeans belt tab when not using it.

I was hoping the 4GB upgrade model would have a MicroSD expansion slot. Sansa made their bones selling memory cards and to leave that option off of this player is ludicrous.

when is this new clip supposed to come out? and if its already out, where can i get one?

I have a hard time understanding how 15 hours of playback "blows". Plug the damn thing in once in awhile. Do people really listen to these things in long enough stretches to wear the battery out? I have an ipod shuffle that has never had the battery run dry on me (granted it lasts longer, but still).

@AlexNC: AAC support?

That's rather spiffy-looking, it is. The price ratio is certainly good- 4GB starts getting past 'shuffle-size' and into 'main mp3 player' size. (Well. not for my 40+ gigs, but..)

I wish I needed somethin' like this- it's certainly a nice shuffle/nano alternative.

I heard these have excellent sound quality...

As for 15 hours of playback, the damn thing is 4GB! You'll be sick of your music before the battery dies, sheesh.

Soon I'm just gonna have a mini MP3 player and a little speaker implanted inside my ear. Then I'll tell my wife I couldn't hear her tell me to take out the trash because there was a DRM restriction on it.

This is a great player ... small, great audio quality, FM radio, MTP and MSC modes, mini USB. Only one problem ... some people in the Sansa and Anything But iPod forums have been reporting that their batteries discharge within a few days even when the Clip is turned off (yes, fully shutdown). Others (including myself) can leave it off for a week with no charge being used. So there appears to some kind of battery/manufacturing defects with some Clips. Buy from a store with a reasonable return policy.

Of course gizmodo has to find the littlelest things to complain about everytime a company releases something better than an apple product (clip>shuffle), even though apple products have major issues that gizmodo seems to try to ignore.

Actually, I think you guys are are right, the battery life for the clip really does suck, especially considering it closest competitor, the shuffle has a whopping 12 hours of battery life, clearly longer than the clip's 15 hours.

Amazing how a device as small as the shuffle has an amazing battery life, especially considering that the shuffle has to also power its non exsistent screen, which drains a lot of battery, whereas the clip does need to power its screen, yet somehow it has a crappy battery life, clearly less than the shuffles 12 hrs.