Gift Guide: Tech Goodies For Mom's Day : SanDisk SlotRadio Player
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$99.99 (player) + $39.99 (card) This digital audio player isn’t for everyone. But it is for people who like popular music and a mostly passive music-listening experience. SanDisk’s SlotRadio Player is designed to work with SlotRadio cards: $39.99 MicroSD cards filled, by SanDisk, with 1,000 songs. The songs can’t be copied, which is why the music labels are all for this format. Plenty of super-busy moms with tastes in modern-and-popular tunes will find a music player and a filled-up card to be a huge convenience. That’s because finding 1,000 songs on your own could take hours of work and cost as much as $1,000. SlotRadio card mixes include rock, country, oldies, and hip-hop and R&B. The music-listening experience reminds us of Pandora or other Internet radio sites—but this one can go with your mom on a walk. |
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From the slotradio.org website:
"Much like radio, these songs are played in sequence and cannot be rewound or rearranged, yet in slotRadio™, individual songs can be skipped as often as you want."
So you buy mom 1000 songs, she hears one she likes, and has to skip the other 999 to hear it again? What is sandisk thinking? Why not just get mom a real mp3 player, or perhaps a FM radio?
From the slotradio.org website:"Much like radio, these songs are played in sequence and cannot be rewound or rearranged, yet in slotRadio™, individual songs can be skipped as often as you want."So you buy mom 1000 songs, she hears one she likes, and has to skip the other 999 to hear it again? What is sandisk thinking? Why not just get mom a real mp3 player, or perhaps a FM radio?
There had to be a catch: After all, how else would a record company allow 1000 songs to be sold for $40? That's why I wrote that it reminded me a lot of the Internet Radio model (Pandora, etc.).
My girlfriend is planning on getting her mother a netbook, probably the MSI Wind. It's sort of a cheaper alternative to the Aspire Timeline.
My girlfriend is planning on getting her mother a netbook, probably the MSI Wind. It's sort of a cheaper alternative to the Aspire Timeline.
I'm sure netbooks are going to be extremely popular this year for Mothers Day. I'm not aware of any models that have come out in the last month, which is why I didn't include any (almost everything in this gift guide is very new).
Pretty sure my kitty would pee in that grass charging station.