So for Christmas I got the 16 gig Sansa view I asked for. The reviews on amazon were great, so I was totally stoked.
It's a buggy POS. Screen flickers, freezes during all song shuffle play, will not play video or pictures (I just get some weird thumbnail). I'll be chatting with tech support tomorrow, but basically I will have to return it to Amazon. I don't want to have to fight with a damn MP3 player to get it to work.
Now, here's my problem. For the 20 minutes that it functioned nicely today, I really was enjoying having a large MP3 player. So I want to get one to replace it. It has to stay under 200, cos that was my parents' budget for the thing. I realllllly didn't want to have to go ipod, but it is looking like that might be the only option? It seems like the smaller Creative MP3 players have lots of problems.
So, is my only choice the 8 gig ipod nano? :\