I knew I had to do it someday — and I finally did it yesterday. What did I do, you ask? Why, bought a little MP3 player of course.

No, it is not an iPod.

The strange thing is, I don’t even know what exactly it should be called. Sure, I could call it an MP3 player, but it does play WMA too. (Regret­tably, it doesn’t seem to play OGG files.) I could call it a music player, but it does play videos too. If I called it a media player…would anyone know what I was talking about? When I say ‘media player’ the first thing that pops into my head is Microsoft’s Windows Media Player. Not the same thing.

Well, on to the details: it’s a 4GB, shiny black thing with USB 2.0 connec­tivity and recharge­able batteries. Hmmm…why am I telling you all this? Just do a quick search on Google for Sansa e260, and you can get the full story.

In case you are wondering, I don’t plan to use it myself. I had a $50 RadioShack gift card, and a 10% discount coupon, and besides, it was already discounted by 16%, so I decided to splurge. Do the reckoning yourself.

Tags: Music, Video

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