SANDISK RELEASES FOUR NEW SLOTRADIO CARDS FOR FANS
Starting at $39.99,
Genre-Specific Billboard® Cards Give Consumers Effortless Access to
the Music They Love Most
Milpitas, Calif., April 29, 2009- SanDisk
Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), the inventor and world's largest
supplier of flash storage cards, today announced that four new
1,000-song, genre-specific slotRadio™ cards are available for sale
at slotRadio.org. The new
slotRadio cards (starting at $39.99 MSRP U.S.) give consumers
instant access to some of their favorite styles of music, including
Rock, Country, Oldies and Hip Hop/R&B. Each card contains
several hand-crafted playlists featuring songs from Billboard's top
charting artists. Designed to be paired with the Sansa® slotRadio™
player, the plug-and-play music cards deliver true music
enjoyment.
"These new genre-specific slotRadio cards give consumers the
music they want in an instantly accessible manner at unprecedented
value," said Noam Kedem, vice president, product management,
SanDisk. "It only takes a few seconds to swap a slotRadio card with
1,000 new songs into a slotRadio player. This is the fastest,
easiest and most affordable way for consumers to enjoy the music
they love. It's great music, made effortless."
Billboard Rock
The Billboard Rock card includes Classic, Hard and Modern Rock hits
from some of the biggest artists, including Bon Jovi, Coldplay,
Fall Out Boy, Santana, System of a Down and The Who. Songs are
organized into playlists by decade, theme and mood, creating
perfect soundtracks for working out, chilling out and everything in
between.
Billboard Country
With music from both legends and today's hottest stars, the
Billboard Country card features love songs, Country Belles, and
road trip favorites including class acts such as Johnny Cash,
George Strait, Shania Twain, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban and Hank
Williams, Jr.
Billboard Oldies
The Billboard Oldies card is sure to stir up nostalgic memories of
sock hops and jukeboxes at the five and dime with love ballads,
Pop, R&B, Motor City and Rock inspired playlists that include
songs from The Beach Boys, Earth, Wind & Fire, Elvis Presley,
Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross, The Temptations and more.
Billboard Hip Hop/R&B
Artists as diverse as Akon, Snoop Dogg, Marvin Gaye, Whitney
Houston, Janet Jackson and TLC are brought together on the
Billboard Hip Hop/R&B card in themed playlists that cover every
mood and tempo from relaxing old school R&B classics, love jams
and ballads to current beat-driven Hip Hop hits.
The Sansa slotRadio player ($99.99 MSRP) is a small, stylish,
portable device that plays music directly from pre-loaded slotRadio
cards, eliminating the hassle of software installations,
time-consuming music selection and file-by-file downloading. The
player comes bundled with a 1,000-song, multi-genre card that can
quickly be popped out and replaced with a new card catering to a
specific taste in music.
While songs cannot be rewound or copied from the cards, users
can easily navigate between the playlists and skip forward from
song-to-song at the press of a button.
These first four new slotRadio cards are available at slotRadio.org beginning today
and will soon also be sold at RadioShack® stores nationwide.
Additional themed and genre-specific slotRadio cards are also
expected to debut on slotRadio.org in the near
future. The slotRadio cards work in any slotRadio player and are
now also compatible with the Sansa® Fuze™ MP3 player.
The Sansa slotRadio player is a die-cast aluminum player that
also features a 1.5" OLED screen for viewing artist and song
information, an FM radio and even an integrated belt clip for
hands-free listening.
The Sansa slotRadio Player and slotRadio cards expand SanDisk's
Sansa audio/video product family, which includes the slotMusic™
player and album cards for avid fans, the popular Sansa Fuze™ and
the small Sansa® Clip.
For more information on slotRadio, visit www.slotRadio.org.
About SanDisk:
SanDisk Corporation, the inventor and world's largest supplier of
flash storage cards, is a global leader in flash memory - from
research, manufacturing and product design to consumer branding and
retail distribution. SanDisk's product portfolio includes flash
memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders;
digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for consumers and the
enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices; and solid state
drives for computers. SanDisk is a Silicon
Valley-based S&P 500 company, with more than half its sales
outside the United States.
SanDisk's web site/home page address: http://www.sandisk.com
SanDisk's product and executive images can be downloaded from http://www.sandisk.com/corporate/mediakit
SanDisk, the SanDisk logo and Sansa are trademarks of SanDisk
Corporation, registered in the United States and other countries.
slotRadio is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation. slotMusic is
licensed by SLOTmedia Group LLC. The microSD mark and logo are
trademarks of SD-3C, LLC. Other brand names mentioned herein are
for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their
respective holder(s).
slotRadio™ cards contain 1000 songs pre-programmed in music
playlists for unlimited playback with slotRadio-compatible devices
only. Visit slotRadio.org for slotRadio compatible
devices. Much like radio, these songs are played in sequence
and cannot be rewound or rearranged, yet in slotRadio™, individual
songs can be skipped as often as you want. Song and playlist files
cannot be copied or viewed (for example on a PC).
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements,
including expectations for new product introductions, applications,
markets, and customers that are based on our current expectations
and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these
forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause
these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among
others: there may be a slower adoption rate for these products in
new markets that we are targeting or market demand for these
products may grow more slowly than our expectations, these products
and accessories may not perform as expected, may not be available
at the prices, in the regions, in the capacities or at the time
expected, and the other risks detailed from time-to-time in our
Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including,
but not limited to, our most recent annual report on Form 10-K and
our subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. We do not intend to
update the information contained in this press release.