You know, this ‘almost’ feels like an Apple product, but the UI is just different enough to eliminate that idea.

The market for cheap and cheerful MP3 players is an ever-growing one, and SanDisk has been quite successful recently in cornering a substantial share of this pie. The Sansa c150 series is one such offering, coming in two models, the 1 GB c140 at around $100 and the 2 GB c150 at about $125.

Out of the box, the c150 doesn’t look like much, essentially a standard flash player stick fattened at the back to hold the AAA battery that powers it. The plastic finish is cheap-feeling, and the screen is awfully small (1.7″) for something that can ostensibly display pictures. The controls attempt to capture that iPod feel, but don’t really succeed.

A fashion icon the c150 is not, but neither am I, so I won’t throw stones from my cheap glass house. Real problems do stem from the c150’s design, however. For one, the circular control unit is as rickety as it looks, and you may find yourself having to push buttons three or four times in order to get anything to happen…. Source: Den Guru