SanDisk, of all people, have release three new portable flash-memory players, numbingly-entitled the “Digital Audio Player’ series. They appear to share all the same chipset as most of the other modern flash players, with integrated voice recording, FM radio, and USB 2.0 connection. The best part is the price: $200 for the top-end 1GB player.
We’re getting dangerously close to the point where flash MP3 players will be effectively the same price as vanilla flash memory drives. If someone could perfect an interface that would work in something the size of, say, the SanDisk Cruzer Titanium—and could figure out a way to replace the AAA battery the Digital Audio Players need—I think the two product lines would be able to effectively merge.
SanDisk Portable Audio Players [MobileMag]
