| Real, Best Buy do the Sansa with Sandisk |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Friday, 06 October 2006 | |
  
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The new agreement will see Best Buy outlets sell the Sandisk Sansa range of Flash based music players, preloaded with the RealNetworks Rhapsody DNA subscription access and streaming system, plus the newly released RealNetworks Rhapsody 4.0 music subscription service. Unlike iTunes, Rhapsody has a subscription service costing US$9.99 a month for unlimited downloads to PCs and US$14.99 for downloads to portable players. Users can also buy songs for 99c US, the same price as tracks from iTunes. Best Buy plans to offer a free two-month subscription to the Rhapsody service with each Sansa player purchased. Rhapsody boasts a simplified interface with drag and drop functionality and automatically generated playlists based on the historical preferences of customers. Like Zune, the competitively priced Sandisk Sansa range, which come with up to 8GB of Flash storage, also have radio tuners, which the iPod range lacks. However, the Sansa, like iPod, does not have the wireless functionality that is a feature of Zune. {moscomment} |
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