Flash recollect author Sandisk grab partnered near Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) to comfort grant music services inside favour of its Sansa Connect digital blare recitalist.
Unlike other players in an with juncture busy music player bazaar, Sansa Connect be a WiFi-enabled convenient MP3 player that allows user to listen to LAUNCHcast Internet radio, download music, ration music with friends completed Yahoo Messenger and judgment photo from Flickr.
LAUNCHcast and Flickr be both constituent of the Yahoo framework.
Users can harden cheery wirelessly at Yahoo Music Unlimited To Go lacking initial linking to a personal computer.
The apparatus be designed to untether consumers from their computer, and to consent to users purloin alien music and share recommendation via an depart, wireless Internet network, Daniel Schreiber, common overseer for SanDisk's Audio Video Business Unit, tell TechNewsWorld.
Terms of the agreement with insinuation to SanDisk and Yahoo be not disclose.
The new MP3 player, which win this year's Best of CES venerate in the MP3 player category, can highly in a while be subsequent to with open WiFi network and share songs regardless of field, according to SanDisk.
The device come with a 2.2-inch LCD eyeshade and weigh 15.2 ounces, explanation it is heavier and has a less significant screen than the highest-capacity (80 GB) iPod.
The Sansa Connect also comes with an 8 GB glint concrete drive that can be expanded via a microSD memory card.
Hoping to craft a reputation its article of exchange from the iPod, SanDisk has garner a niche market with its Sansa file of digital players, the administration said, totting alert that even then again its MP3 players are No. 2 seller in the U.S., it lags aft Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) all-pervading iPod line in popularity.
Apple has sold 100 million iPods since the product's celestial in October 2001, and the devices now contention beyond a 70 percent share of the U.S. MP3 player market.
SanDisk has rise to degree second with hoarsely a 10 percent splinter of the market, according to market pollster NPD Group.
Although the WiFi period is considered its unmatched selling thorn, Sansa Connect is not the first MP3 player to shop at wireless knowledge.
Last year, Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Zune video console launch with integrated WiFi; even in view of that, the Zune use the wireless capability lone for giving out songs with other users within realize. Unlike Sansa Connect, the Zune is not impressive of downloading music wirelessly from the Internet.
Sansa Connect is now accessible in the U.S. for US$250. It will be released in Canada following this year.
