Sansa E200 USB port same as ipods?

[brownbox]

Well, I was looking today, and found that the Sansa and ipod usb cables have the same plug on the end. Not the end which plugs into the computer (obviously   )  

Im too scared of mucking something up, so can someone confirm/unconfirm that they work?

[zajacattack]

They are not the same and are not interchangeable (they won't fit; I tried).

[brownbox]

Cheers for that

[grossaffe]

They are not the same and are not interchangeable (they won't fit; I tried).

you sure they won't fit?  i have what i assume is an ipod connector on my fm transmitter and it fit into my sansa... only problem is that it screwed it up too.  i think it fits, but has a different pinout.

[zajacattack]

Well it didn't fit for me, but, whether they fit or not, they have totally different hardware and are definitely not interchangeable.

[scharkalvin]

They are close, but no cigar!  You might be able to force a Sansa plug into an iPod, or maybe the other way 'round but one of those plugs is just slightly larger than the other.  I think the Sansa is an off the shelf standard part, and the iPod is a custom to Apple.  

Apple recently told all third party iPod accessory makers they could no longer use the Apple female connector in their products (same connector as on the ipod itself) but could continue to make plugs that go into the iPod (ie: docking connectors).  The company I work for makes an amplifier that hooks up to the ipod and shows the metadata on it's own control panel.  It connected to the ipod via a cable with male ipod ends on both ends of the cable.  Now we have to put a DIFFERENT socket on the amp, and it looks like we are going to use the same one as on the Sansa.  (which means we have to label the cable with IPOD and AMP in big letters on the cable so the user doesn't mess up).