Hi chris, You should try listening to a Rockboxed Sansa Fuze, it sounds fantastic! E ven better than the E200 Series players!
Here's what one gets with a player purchase from Accessible Electronics: the player (including USB cable and earphones), completely set up and speaking, initial instructional email and Quick-Start Guide, plus the Rockbox manual for the specific player. One also gets the utilities one may need for whatever one wishes to do with their player. *Free* tech support via email, phone, and Skype, including walking someone through whatever procedure they need to be walked through. 90-day replacement warranty. Shipping & handling is free in the US and discounted on international orders. With iPods you may not need to use VoiceBox, which is very simple to use BTW, but you do have to use iTunes to do anything with your player, and as you know, not everyone takes to iTunes like a duck to water, with some people ending up paying the extra $75 for Brian Hartgen's JAWS scripts. The other thing about iPods is that you're paying a lot more for what you get as far as capabilities go. Sure, there's some give and take no matter which way one looks at it, but I'd prefer to have the expandable memory, have control of where I put my files, and the ability to use it as a mass storage device if I choose to. Plus there's no touch screen challenge. The iPod Touch is more like a PDA, rather large when compared to a Sansa player, and a lot more expensive, especially if one drops it or it gets stolen. I myself have an iPod Touch, but I don't use it for listening to my audio files, as it's very cumbersome to control when compared to a Rockboxed Sansa Talking MP3 player. I mainly use it for the applications and use my Sansa Fuze for my listening pleasure. Comparing these two devices is like comparing apples to oranges, no pun intended. LOL! Regards, Laz "Christopher Chaltain" <[email protected]> wrote: I haven't ordered a Rockbox loaded MP3 player from Accessible Electronics, but I have used Rockbox on the Sansa E200 series of MP3 players. I'd definitely give it a favorable review. You'll have a MP3 player with talking menus, great sound quality and it won't set you back a lot financially. I'm not sure what you get with Accessible Electronics, but with a utility called VoiceBox, you can create voice clips for the folders and files on your player, so you'll hear the names of the folders and files spoken when you move around the file system of your MP3 player. You can also change the batteries of the Sansa's and swap out the memory cards for more storage. You can just use Windows Explorer to copy your music over to your MP3 player or a music library manager like Winamp. IMHO, the only other real option is the iPods from Apple. They'll probably be a bit simpler to use, in that you don't have to use a utility like VoiceBox to get the folders and files on your MP3 player spoken to you. You don't have the option of just copying your files over to the iPod, you'll have to use iTunes. The iPod Touch may also have more features than you're looking for, but that's also one of its advantages. Good luck in whatever you decide! I don't think you can go wrong either way! -- Christopher [email protected] -- Accessible talking MP3 players! Great features including: FM radio, voice recording, expandable memory, great bookmarking capabilities, very user configurable, and a lot more! Play MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, FLAC, MP4, M4A, AIFF, and many others! All our players are priced very affordably, less than $100, plus free shipping & handling in the US! No need to use any annoying music management software either! Join our support mailing list by sending a blank email to: [email protected] To hear a short demonstration, download our demo here: http://www.talkingmp3players.com/uploads/2/0/4/6/2046538/talking_rockboxed_sansa_e200_series_player_demo.mp3 Visit our home page: http://www.talkingmp3players.com/ Contact information: Email: [email protected] Phone: 727 498-0121 Skype name: lazmesa Facebook: facebook.com/laz.mesa. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected]
