Friday, June 4, 2010

SanDisk Sansa Fuze 8 GB Video MP3 Player (Black) Reviews

SanDisk Sansa Fuze 8 GB Video MP3 Player (Black)
Type : MP3 Player
Brand : SanDisk
Model : SDMX14R-008GKA57 (Check Price)

Overall Rating :
(Average 4.0/5 from 308 Reviews)
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SanDisk SDMX14R-008GKA57 Overview

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. (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.

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SanDisk SDMX14R-008GKA57 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

SanDisk SDMX14R-008GKA57 Customer Reviews

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"Great price, fine product"
I'm a low-maintenance user, so this is not for the power user. I generally take this to the gym or run with it and hit play. The battery life is good - sorry, can't give specifics, but i have had it out for 8 hours of play time and not run out. No skipping. Has a big screen for such a small player. Menus are easy to read. Transferring music from Windows Media Player has been seamless. I don't do videos so can't help you out on that.
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"Great Player Had It Lasted More Than Four Months..."
This would've gotten four stars, but since the device crapped out on me after four months it barely gets half a star. I took such good care of this thing too, did not drop it once and even put a small clear case around it to protect and yet it still died.

Looking at this from an objective viewpoint, assuming the thing didn't stop working, I was really impressed with the Fuze: decent features, portable, easy to use. The battery could have lasted longer but I was overall impressed with the device. I only bought it for listening to MP3s so I can't tell you about the video playback.

I noticed other reviewers had similar problems with the device crapping out within months as well. I read these reviews and did my homework before buying the the Fuze, so I bought the device at my own risk. Apparently it's easier to craft satellites with the capability to zoom in on a random mosquito's rear-end anywhere in the world than it is to build a decent, long lasting little gadget like the Fuze. Seriously? Son of a...

Buy at your own risk. It truly is a great little MP3 player with a relatively decent price compared to the cheapest iPod, which is roughly $4,000 depending on the strength of the dollar when you buy it, but how long the Fuze will last you (even with the greatest of TLC) is anyone's guess.

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"Broke in less than 30 days"
Had trouble getting album art on the mp3 player. If this is something that is a bonus to you, I would think twice. Also the wheel began to get sticky within the first couple of weeks and COMPLETELY stopped working by the 30 day mark. I ended up sending it back.

Nice because it has dedicated podcast setting, however the controls were a bit hard to get used to, navigation could have been simpler.

I hated the media converter and couldn't figure out for the life of me figure out how to put videos on it.

The earbuds began falling apart by the 30 day mark also.

For the most part it was fine, and felt high quality except for the wheel which was junk.
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"SanDisk"
I had previously owned a Sony 2 GB Walkman MP3 but got it wet. Follow the manufacturer's warning: Never get your MP3 player wet! I liked the way the Sony worked: It was easy to use and had great battery life. I was looking for a replacement and especially a product for my tunes. The Sandisk offers the additional feature of recording at a reasonable price. And I was able to add additional memory with a Sandisk 16GB MicroSD.
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"Easy to load and use. Quality questionable"
I found the drag and drop for loading music into the thing really simple my preteen kid can do it, more simple than my 4th generation IPOD 30G classic which recently gave up its hard drive. This Fuze was supposed to be my replacement, as I found the IPOD a waste of too much memory for the way I used it, which was all music, and I tend to listen to a dozen albums for months, then replace them all with a new dozen. The IPOD lasted many years, got washed with the clothes and after dried out it continued working for another year. This Sansa Fuze I like- the way it looks, its weight, its simple drag and drop. But I don't know about quality. It lasted a couple hours of use, and totally broke. Nothing. Doesn't charge. Doesn't turn on. Amazon's easy return is good, and I'm getting a replacement, but reserve judgement on quality. It's possible that it's just infant mortality.
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