Originally published June 26 2005
New Sansa e130 MP3 player released
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Digital Home Canada recently released a series of MP3 players that store 1GB or 512 MB of flash memory. These players are intended to compete with Apple's iPod Shuffle, having more functionality and using only a AAA battery.
Digital Home Canada sat down last week with representatives from the SanDisk Corporation and learned the company has begun shipping its new flash based MP3 players to major Canadian retailers.
The company's second series of MP3 players, the Sansa e100 series, ships in a 512MB or 1GB models and retail for $179 and $239 Canadian respectively.
The SanDisk Corporation which makes the Sansa e130 is the world's largest supplier of flash memory cards and sells product in every flash card format including Compact Flash (CF), SD, miniSD, SmartMedia, MultiMedia Card and Memory Stick.
In 2004, the company introduced its first MP3 player and thanks to worldwide reach the SanDisk Digital Audio Player quickly became number two in market share after Apple.
Setting Up the E130 Add SD Memory to the Sansa e100 series Inside the e130 package we found stereo headphones, carrying case with armband, USB 2.0 cable, AAA Battery and an install CD with software.
Once we removed the e130 from its packaging, we inserted one AAA battery into the player, added a 128MB SanDisk SD card into the right spine of the player and finally plugged the USB 2.0 cable into the player and our computer.
Our Windows XP computer automatically found the device and seconds later two removable drives appeared in Windows Explorer.
The first drive was the e130's 512 megabytes of internal storage and the second drive was the extra 128MB SD card.
Inside Windows Explore, we simply dragged the songs we wanted from our computers hard drive and dropped them onto the two removable drives.
After several minutes of transferring files, we unplugged the USB 2.0 cable and turned the e130 on using the Menu /Power button on the right spine of the player.
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