This weekend we got to play with SanDisk’s new Sansa Shaker MP3 player. The Sansa Shaker is aimed at kids eight and older and features kid-friendly features like a built-in speaker, two headphone jacks and an innovative “shake” mechanism to switch songs. Although it doesn’t have any built-in memory, the $40 player comes with a 512MB SD card and can be expanded easily with larger SD cards. In fact, you can get the Sansa Shaker and a 2GB SD card (the largest the player supports) for about the same price as a 1GB iPod Shuffle, or even less if you look around.
Watch for a full review soon, but so far the Sansa Shaker looks like a winner if you’re looking for an inexpensive, kid-friendly MP3 player.