My 3rd generation iPod Nano died recently. I did my research to buy an iPod alternative, as always, to find the best deal. Thanks to a
Lifehacker article, I decided to buy a
4GB Sansa Clip Zip. Why? It's an excellent music player and it's a lot cheaper than
an iPod Nano. Not only cheaper but it has a feature that makes it stand apart, it is the ingenious idea to include a slot to expand its memory up to 32GB with a microSDHC flash memory card.
But wait there's more. The Sansa Clip Zip can play MP3, WMA, (DRM-free) AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and Audible files. It also has built-in a FM radio, a stopwatch and a voice recorder. And it can be flashed with an open source firmware called
RockBox to add a lot of more features and customizations.
There's
another version that costs $57.59 that has an internal memory of 8GB. But why I wouldn't buy it, because I can assemble a
4GB blue Sansa Clip Zip together with a
32GB Sandisk microSDHC and protect it with a
blue silicone case cover just for the total price of
US$57.84 at Amazon (almost at the same price for the 8GB one). You just can't beat this deal.
