Battery life for one. I would happily take a cheaper smaller music player many places I wouldn't take my phone, as its more important that I don't loose or dama

Battery life for one. I would happily take a cheaper smaller music player many places I wouldn't take my phone, as its more important that I don't loose or damage the phone. Plus I found the default Andorid music player a mess to use. No idea where teh files are stored on the device. I wanted to move music from main memory to the SD card i added later. Way more effort than it was worth. My Sansa Clip years ago was a far better device for music and survived the washing machine a couple of times.