I have had the 8GB Clip for a couple of months now. It is superb. Only drawbacks:
The battery will die someday, and since it is not replaceable… that means the Clip dies forever.
Storage is limited to 8 GB.
What I really like about it is :
Very small, lightweight
Resume/bookmark function for audiobooks that works beautifully.
Incremental (Longer you hold fast forward down the faster it fast-forwards) fast forward for music or audiobooks
Excellent sound quality – and enough power to drive even big (Sony MDR-50 Noise Cancellers) headphones
Can delete songs from the player… faster than you can from the Fuze…
Supports, and sounds very good playing low bitrates (20kbps audiobooks and music)
Only serious problem I have enountered is frequent error messages when transferring files to this player. Messages telling me that the player is not connected, etc…
I also have other Sansa’s including the E104, E270, and Fuze.
I agree with others that Video is not needed in this tiny player, but would like to see 4 new features soon:
optional aa or aaa battery support for long trips etc.
replaceable internal battery
16 or 32 GB internal memory
a MicroSD slot.
All in all, a very nice job, Sansa. You seem more responsive than most other companies to what your customers want.
