**bleep**, still no AA mp3 player that uses a micro sd card? I’ve been looking for one of these for a long time now.
Pros of AA mp3 player with micro SD slot-
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AA mp3 player can be taken on trips, camping, travel, etc. If you fly intercontinental you can spend upwards of 30+ hours just in airplanes and airports, and that’s before you even get to your destination! No built in battery mp3 player can hang with that but if the mp3 player takes AA’s then you can either buy new batteries or bring along spares in your bag.
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When traveling who knows what voltage the country you’re going to uses? Who knows if you need a wall plug adaptor? Who knows if the voltage difference will screw up your mp3 player or if you need some sort of voltage converter? Not me, that’s for sure. Like I really want to look up ■■■■ like that every time I go on a trip, you know?
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Battery life in AA mp3 players is great. I’m still using an iriver T10 that lasts and lasts in terms of battery life. It was advertised as getting up to 35 hours of battery life which is substantially longer than other built in battery mp3 players I’ve looked at.
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Micro SD slot means you don’t have to throw away your mp3 player to upgrade, while at the same time you will probably buy every new micro SD card that comes out to upgrade your player. Perfect for a company like SanDisk that also sells SD cards- you only have to engineer the player one time but you’ll make money off it for a long time selling bigger and bigger SD cards.
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No need to recharge. If the battery dies you don’t need to stop listening to whatever you’re listening to, you can just pop in a new battery. Also no need to worry about a built in battery going bad. Plus I just don’t like recharging stuff. You can recharge 4 AA batteries at a time but it seems like you’d have to constantly be recharging a built in battery mp3 player which sounds like a PITA. Do not want, too much hassle in remembering to take it off the charger, etc.
Specs for the greatest mp3 player known to man-
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AA battery
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Micro SD slot
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Remembers bookmarks
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FM tuner
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Low-power screen. The iriver T10 has a fancy LCD screen but it’s a waste. I don’t look at pictures on it so all it does is ■■■■ up battery life. Better to have an OLED screen or something like that.
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Includes a clip. The iriver T10 has a solid clip that is pretty handy to have because you can clip it to whatever you’re wearing. Basically a great mp3 player IMO would be like an iriver T10 with a low power screen in place of the LCD and a micro SD slot or a Sandisk Clip+ that takes AA batteries.
