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**Sansa Clock Radio with SanDisk C240 1GB Media Player ** [Timex - New; Sansa - Refurbished] - $29.99
HAPPY 2009!
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umm does it work with ipods?
Gotta love the leap year compliant remark.
Of course, you must realize that I got my Zune 30 from here too…
Hopefully it doesn’t use the same clock circuit as my Timex DVD Clock radio - that thing gains a minute every few weeks until it’s four minutes fast. Then it stays that way. Evil.
Good deal if it works, though, and you don’t care about the time.
Has anyone tried a sansa view with this?
Woo hoo, got one.
$65 on Amazon.
Pretty good deal…
cool! happy new year!
This is one of the best item descriptions woot has had yet. Microsoft scores again!
It wil work with anything that has a standard earphone jack (I’ve played my Sansa Clips through it, for instance), but, unless you use a Sansa player with the 30-pin socket on the end, you won’t be able to dock it (which means that the player will be powered by and charged by the radio, and, you’ll be able to use the remote to flip through cuts on an album, IF your player can dock on the device).
Although most Ipods DO use the same PHYSICAL connector, you will let the smoke out of the Ipod and the clock radio if you plug them together, since they are not electrically compatible. I don’t know why Sansa picked the same connector, but then changed the pinout config. (All I can figure is that some lawyers may have had a say in matters.)
This is a very good deal – I’d jump for it if I didn’t already have one. VERY good sound out of the speaker on the clock radio, has battery backup for time/alarm, and the remote is a nice touch.
Way to keep it current woot with the zune jab!
Impressed I am.
Anyone know how long you can record with the voice recorder on the c240, and how well would it perform for recording things like presentations?
Why is it that these clock radio/dock combos don’t allow the MP3 player to be used for the alarm?
I found the writeup funny on many levels–being that I’ve bought several Sansa’s from woot!, and the 30gb Zune that I own that locked-up on me yesterday was also purchased through woot!.
So when I saw the news posting about the universal Zune freeze-ups, then powered up my own Zune to confirm the problem touched me as well, I went scurrying to charge up my Sansa e280 to use today as a backup.
Is my Zune going to freeze up on Dec. 31st of every leap year now? l-o-l
Mine is accurate (within about a minute a month compared to my “atomic clock” – MUCH more accurate than the RTC in my computer) – although I did have a bit of a panic at first – it was jumping at random like ten or fifteen minutes a time. I finally figured out what was happening – it was sitting on top of my monitor, and the monitor’s built-in degaussing coil was EMPing the clock. I moved it off the monitor and onto a shelf and it’s been working fine ever since.
BTW this has one feature I haven’t seen listed anywhere – or, in any other product, which I wish was standard for ALL clocks – there’s a switch on the back for DST jumps. Flip the switch to tweak the clock one hour ahead or behind. (“Automatic” DST features never seem to get things just right.)
Really? They don’t? Heck, that would be the one feature that would get me to buy one
This is the funniest description I’ve ever seen woot! deliver, bravo.
Pat answer: <barbie>Software is hard!</barbie>
More likely answer: The players don’t like sitting “on idle” with a song cued up. IF your model does resume playing when powered up, it’s still a bit of a crapshoot – you’d need to prep it each time you went to bed, and the first time you missed a beat, and ended up not getting the wakeup call, Timex would catch all the flack.
Wanted a couple of these before Christmas, but missed em… in for two!!