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Tag : sandisk sansa, player silver, gb mp3, fuze 8

Company : SanDisk List Price : $129.99 Amazon Price : $129.99 Used Price : Average customer review :

Features

• Listen, watch, and play all day with 24 hours of battery life and room for up to 2,000 songs
• Watch your favorite video clips or share your photos on the 1.9-inch color screen
• Digital FM radio with 40 preset stations
• Voice recording with built-in microphone
• Expand your existing 8 GB memory with the microSD/microSDHC slot

Amazon.com Product Description

With the SanDisk Sansa Fuze, you can fuse your portable entertainment, featuring 8 GB of storage. Listen, watch, and play all day with 24 hours of battery life and room for up to 2,000 songs**. Watch your favorite video clips on the Sansa Fuze’s 1.9-inch color screen. Measuring just 0.3 inches thin, the Sansa Fuze marks the next wave of music and video players.

Your portable music machine with 8 GB of storage. (Click image to view larger.)

The MicroSD/SDHC memory card slot means storage possibilities are essentially unlimited. (Click image to view larger.)

Smaller than a credit card and as thin as a pencil, the new Sansa Fuze MP3 player looks great–and has the brains to match. (Black player shown here; click image to view larger.) Audio Player
Smaller than a credit card and as thin as a pencil, the new Sansa Fuze MP3 player looks great–and has the brains to match. With room for up to 2,000 songs**, you can listen all day long. Jam to FM radio with 40 preset stations, play with the built-in voice recorder, and listen to your favorite audiobooks wherever you go. And with 24 hours of battery life, you’re free to listen, watch, and play all day–literally.

Watch Your Favorite Videos
The Sansa Fuze comes with 8 GB of built-in memory enough to store 5 hours of video playback. Watch your favorite TV video clips from wherever you are. To ensure speedy file transfers, the unit features a USB 2.0 connection. Simply connect the player to a PC, and start dragging files from your Windows Media Player 10 or 11 applications.

Expanded Capacity
With an option to extend the capacity, its MicroSD/SDHC memory card slot means storage possibilities are essentially unlimited. Expand your music collection, show albums of photos up to 4000 images*, and watch your favorite videos on those long trips.

Compatible Formats
The player supports MPEG4 video files and audio files saved in MP3, secure and unsecured WMA, WAV, Audible, and Overdrive file formats.

FM Radio
If you’re feeling like a break from your own tunes, or want to dial in the TV frequency at the gym, use the digital FM tuner. Save your favorites on the 40 user presets.

Voice Recorder
Use the voice recorder with built-in microphone to take memos, record meetings or lectures, or capture whatever else you might feel inclined to point a microphone at. When you’re ready, transfer your files for listening on your PC.

What’s in the Box
SanDisk Sansa Fuze 8 GB MP3 player (silver), earphones, USB 2.0 cable, quick start guide

* 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes; some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions; thus, it is not available for data storage

** Based on continuous audio playback at 128 kpbs MP3; video playback at 512 kbps/ MPEG 4; photos based on 1.7 MB average file size; battery life and performance might vary depending upon usage and settings; battery not replaceable.

Customer reviews

no more apple
After having used an iPod mini for about 4 years, I decided it was time to try something else. Because of the unbeatable price of the Sansa Fuze and the nice features, I decided to buy this player - and I’m very happy I did! I added a 8gb microsd card, making it a 16gb player for only about $200.

The quality of the product seems to be very good, and the display does not get scrateches as fast as an iPod does. The display is very clear and bright, so you can even enjoy videos or movies on the Fuze, if you are all right with a small display. The handling is very similar to the iPod, so you will get comfortable with it quickly if you used an iPod previously.

I like being able to listen to FM radio from time to time or record something - that can be quite useful. The only little problem I have with the Fuze is that there are a few minor things in the software i don’t like. Overall, however, i would definitely recommend buying the Fuze - it does not always have to be an apple, especially if you can get something better for a lower price!

Better than an ipod nano
Picked up the 8gb fuze last week and have been using it since. I was debating on this, the nano, and the sony players, but in the end opted to pick up the fuze. The expandability, sound quality, size, and price all made this guy a clear winner. No garbage software necessary to add music, just simply drag and drop your desired tracks. I just wish there were some more cases available for this thing, in due time I suppose.

Best all-around digital media player!
Hands down, this is the best digital media player I have purchased. After three failed attempts at buying an updated media player (Insignia Pilot 8GB - terrible sound quality, Creative ZEN 8GB - terrible interface software with the computer) I finally found the Sansa Fuze.

This player had everything I was looking for: low price point, large memory capacity (8GB), an exandable memory port (microSDHC), FM radio capability, and small size.

The unit itself looks and feels of quality construction, the interface with the computer is simple (just drag & drop to either internal or external memory) and it has amazing battery life. I’ve had no problems charging the unit on my laptop or via a USB A/C adapter. The manual clearly states that some USB ports are not powerful enough to charge the unit, particularly those on the front of the computer, and in that case to try the back USB ports.

As for video quality, I can’t speak to it. The Fuze has only a 1.9″ screen, so if you bought it to watch videos you must have microscopes for eyes.

Overall, the Sansa Fuze is the best bang for the buck in terms of sound quality, construction, ease of use, and functionality. If you’re looking for an excellent digital media player, you’ve found it!

Like all Sansa players, good BUT….
Well I bought my Sansa Fuze about a week ago after much debating between the iPod nano and this one. The main reason I got the Fuze is its support with Rhapsody which offers unlimited music service for one monthly rate.

However, it seems I will have to take this one right back. The music sounds great (much better than previous Sansa models) but I have been viewing the video, and it simply does not look too sharp. The biggest gripe is that the sides of the screen has begun to take nasty colors. It started with a corner getting a orange smudge, then spread out to the other sides of the screen. To make the matters worse, since the video stays in letterbox format, the orange smudges are extremely visible when seeing video. My other complaint, although a small one, is the bland look of the menu. It would be real nice if you could customize it, but you simply can’t. It’s a real shame too because this is a great player, but it looks like I will be taking it back and getting an iPod nano and using my Sansa clip for all the newer music that comes out through my Rhapsody service.

Amazing Little Digital Audio Player
I’ve had my fuze for several weeks now. What I really like about it is the size, capacity, and most of all price.

The codec support is about average, not great but it satisfies my needs as 99% of my music is encoded in mp3 format.

One of my dislikes is common among all sandisk mp3 players(and most other players) is that the charging/syncing port is proprietary. Not a big issue, mini-usb would have been nice though.

Video playback was smooth(used a mp4 350MB recorded tv show) no sync problems between the audio/video and no stuttering. Too small to really be considered for video playback though.

Picture viewing is about the same as video.

Voice recording works well, don’t have to hold it directly to my face to clearly record sounds…although I’m not sure what this can be used for but it is there and works well.

The radio works great, easy station browsing, easy to add stations to presets, and reception is very clear.

The sound is very accurately produced at all ranges. The included headphones fit well and sound good. The volume goes up much higher than I could ever think I would need it. For those of you who are runners, I use the earphones that come with it and they direct the sound very well into my ears so I do not have to make it too loud and can still hear some of the environmental sounds: wind noise is hardly noticeable.

The screen is easy to see in all light conditions, bright, and easy to read.

The build quality feels great. It has generous weight to it, light enough to take running and not really notice it but heavy enough to give it a solid feel. The front of the device is a bit shiny and does tend to attract fingerprints easily but not scratches so far.

Expansion port works great, currently using a 4GB microsdhc to shuttle podcasts/audiobooks between it my pc.

Navigation is a breeze and the menus are very intuitive, the scroll wheel/buttons are easy to find and press even with the player not in sight.

Syncing I very easy to do without the need for bloated software. You can add media to it via a file explorer(drag & drop) or one of several media players like WMP, winamp, and a variety of others. The datbase is auto-updating and works flawlessly.

A few final notes. The boot-up is about 3-5 seconds from off to playing music after pressing the power button. It will resume the music exactly where you left it when turning it off. Actual usable memory is about 7.8 GB. 4 1/2 out of 5 stars, best on the market right now but not perfect of course.