Updated 14 Feb, 2012, 6:01 pm IST

SanDisk Sansa e260

05 Jan, 2007, 11:48 am IST | Aalaap Ghag | PMPs PMPs

The control scheme of the Sansa e200 series players is around about the same as the Nano. It has a wheel that rotates around one main center "ok" button and has four buttons around for directional navigation as well as playback action (i.e. play/pause, forward, rewind, etc.). The wheel is not a touch-sensitive wheel like the one on the iPods, but a real wheel that physically rotates. It also glows blue when you use it, which looks cool. The buttons around the wheel are a little small and may be uncomfortable to operate, requiring 'nail-typing' most of the time.

There is also a power button on the lower left which doubles up as a main menu button—something I think will take a bit of getting used to after accidentally shutting down the player instead of going to the menu.

The 1.8" display is a lot larger than the Nano. When viewed in landscape mode, it is a proper 4:3 aspect screen (208x160 or 160x208 vertical). The screen is pretty bright and although it looks a little washed out at max brightness, you’ll be comfortable at even a 50% level.

The user interface is a rotating wheel of options (for which you use the rotating wheel on the player), which seems quite fancy and picturesque when compared to the iPod’s plain vanilla 'simple' text-based UI, but when clicked it leads the same boring list of text that the iPod has. The spinning icons may seem a little different at first look, but when you get to the list, you’re in familiar territory once again.

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