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scarfy:
Hi. I'm considering getting an 8GB Sansa (for use with Rockbox, obviously) to replace my aging iRiver and just have a couple of questions,

1) How's the battery life (especially when playing Oggs and with a WPS on)?

2) Has any investigation been done in to the SD card slot? Or is this likely to be an impossible addition?

saratoga:
1)  Relatively poor.  It has the same battery issues as all the portal player cpus.

2)  Toni posted a patch that enables SD support.

scarfy:
Poor as in 3 hours, 5 hours..?

Just don't want the player to die on my after just 4 hours... :)

cpchan:

--- Quote from: scarfy on May 14, 2007, 04:52:27 AM ---Poor as in 3 hours, 5 hours..?
--- End quote ---

It is definitely way more than 5. I use it for several hours everyday and I have yet to see the battery meter go down past the half way mark (and I am using more power draining Ogg Vorbis).

Charles

Vortex:
It looks like the recent power saving improvements turned out well. When the display (backlight) is turned off the battery lasts quite some time. I have yet to test the exact runtime but I would estimate at least 8 hours of "normal" use, that includes changing tracks (thus turning on the backlight) once in a while.

Don't know how long the battery lasts on pure music playback but that could be tested with battery_bench.

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