SanDisk Does Portable Music Subscriptions

David Card | October 04, 2005, 11:42 AM

This is hot if it works.

First serious flash-based device to support portable subscriptions. Aggressive pricing. We think this could be an emerging sweetspot, especially when you can get a few hundred songs on a $100 device.

SanDisk Corporation today introduced the SanDisk Sansa™ m200 series of MP3 music players that use embedded flash memory to store many hours of digital music. The new players support Microsoft® Windows Media® Player 10 and feature PlaysForSure support for portable music downloads and subscription services such as Rhapsody To Go® , Napster To Go™ and Yahoo! Music Unlimited.

UPDATE: Real's offering an $80 rebate (with a six-month committment to Rhapsody) that does just that. Or gets you a 512MB model for free.