SanDisk Sansa e260

SanDisk is more popular in our side of the world for memory cards that most of the budget conscious buyers avoid in favor of cheaper (and often fake) brands, but in the other parts of the world, their Sansa series of MP3 players have been getting a lot of attention and are more widely appreciated than Creative’s Zens. That makes the Sansa players the second most popular in the world, coming in right after the iPod.

Mostly making low-capacity players such as 512MB and 1GB models, the new e200 series sport a color display and higher capacities such as 2GB, 4GB, 6GB and 8GB, namely e250, e260, e270 and e280.

The e200 series are direct competitors to the iPod Nano, but the first thing anyone will spot is that it’s almost twice as thick, even though its roughly the same height and width. Those with eyes on the Nano will need a serious amount of feature benefit from the Sansa if they are to be impressed.

The rear of the player needs a special mention because its made out of a special Titanium alloy by Liquidmetal Technologies that’s supposed to be scratch resistant, but the piece we received already had a pretty large scar on the back. Interestingly, all attempts at trying to create our own scars failed.