Monday, April 09, 2007

SanDisk and Yahoo! team for Wireless MP3 Play

SanDisk and Yahoo! Music team for Wireless MP3 Play

SanDisk is reported to be the second largest seller of MP3 players in the United States, and today they announced partnership with Yahoo! Music which is the number one online music destination! Nice team!!

They plan to implement music services for Sansa Connect, which is a WiFi enabled MP3 player. Users will be able to stay constantly connected to music, photos and friends on Yahoo via a WiFi connection. WiFi is offered by many wireless telecom companies, mostly located in and around metropolitan areas. In some cases, even hotel operators have gotten into the wireless networking area for their customers.

When the Sansa Connect is not connected to a WiFi network, the player behaves like a traditional Flash MP3 player and can be connected to a PC.

If you want the full details:
View the full press release from Sandisk

Yahoo! Music provides unlimited access to over 2 million songs for around 6 bucks, and provides a 14 day free trial offer. You will need to purchase the ToGo option for a few bucks extra in order to use the Sandisk Sansa Connect wireless MP3 player to access the music. Yahoo Music does not permit copying or transferring music files to other users.

Yahoo! Music Unlimited


The 4-gig Sansa Connect comes with a 2.2-inch TFT color screen, a microSD slot for music and photo capacity expansion, and an internal speaker. The unit should be available soon (if not already) in the United States at a retail price around $250. It's expected to be available in Canada in the late 2007.

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