Smoke on the water

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iPod nano or Sandisk View?

Hi all

I really need an advice. I'm picking the new years present, and I chose to give an MP3 player. I now need an advice. The choice came down to 2 possible players: an Apple iPod nano (3rd generation) or the new Sandisk View. I would buy each of the players with 8Gb of memory. Here are the pro's and cons of each:

Apple iPod nano:

Pros'

• Excellent design
• Small and light
  
• Excellent user interface
  
• Acceptable quality with good earphones

Cons'

• Slightly more expensive than Sansa
• Much smaller screen
• Works only with iTunes

Sandisk Sansa View:

Pros':

• Slightly cheaper than an iPod
• Big screen
• Nice design
• In-built FM radio and voice/radio recorder
• MicroSD expansion slot
• Adding stuff into the player manually (without any additional software)
  

Cons':

• Much bigger and heavier than an iPod
• Quite old user interface
• Heavy

It is not intended to be a bashing contest, just asking for help for choosing the better one.

Thanks a bunch.