What It Is: A Zune-killing, credit-card sized, Wi-Fi-enabled digital audio player that lets you download subscription and purchased tracks off of Yahoo! Music Unlimited.
Who Its For: Anyone who wants to save money on music for their portable — legally — as well as existing Yahoo! Music Unlimited subscribers ($8.99 per month for all-you-can-eat music tracks Ã* la Napster, Rhapsody and Urge).
Why Its Worthy: The Sansa Connect’s cartoonish interface thats maneuvered around using a responsive jog dial couldnt be any easier to use. Besides a choice of more than two million songs to download right to your player, you can listen to LaunchCast Internet radio (and download tracks you hear there) or access your (or other peoples) Flickr photos with just a couple of clicks.
Our Only Complaint: While the themed browsing (Most Popular Songs, By Genre, etc.) is as fun as flipping through a good jukebox, the unit could use a plain old search feature to make it truly versatile.
Where To Get It: $249 (4GB) at sandisk.com; (requires $8.99 per month Yahoo! Music Unlimited Subscription, music.yahoo.com).


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