CrunchGear Blog Archive SanDisk s Wi-Fi Better Than Zune s Says, Um, SanDisk, Maybe

Yesterday, we mentioned . Today, CoolTechZone.com is saying SanDisk is admittedly gunning for potential Zune buyers with its .

Unfortunately, the site doesn t do much elaborating on the topic despite apparently having talked to SanDisk about the DAP. The story says, in our meeting with SanDisk, the company said, Sansa Connect is what Zune is not. SanDisk was of course referring to the WiFi capability of the Sansa Connect.

Is it really a surprise that SanDisk would find another use for Wi-Fi than music sharing? The Sansa Connect s wireless abilities (Internet radio and access to PlaysForSure content for example) are certainly more immediately useful than the Zune s social-networking feature. I doubt that s up for debate even.

But just because a manufacturer adds a feature to a device, does that automatically mean it s going after another product with a similar feature? Yeah, no. And not to get nitpicky here (but I m a bit of a dick so I will), the site incorrectly states that Microsoft had the first Wi-Fi-enabled music player.

had one out early in 2006 and that wasn t even the first one. My point being that there is plenty of room for growth and innovation yet to come in the DAP market. Not everything is a Zune/iPod killer.

I also believe Sansa has implemented in a better way the Wifi than Zune (till now). Thats why I posted about it on my Zune-related site when I saw it on CES.
But you don t mention its a 4GB flash memory player (Zune has 30 GB hard disk), it has a 2.

2 screen (Zune has 3 ) and both have the same price, $250 ! Sansa connect is an expensive flash player.
By the way killers, killers, killers.

The DAP market has space for innovation and assassination

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