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Amazon.com Product Description With the SanDisk Sansa Fuze, you can fuse your portable entertainment, featuring 4 GB of storage. Listen, watch, and play all day with 24 hours of battery life and room for up to 1,000 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 4 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.) |
Watch Your Favorite Videos
The Sansa Fuze comes with 4 GB of built-in memory enough to store
12-hour video playback segments. Watch your favorite 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 with up to
2,000 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 4 GB MP3 player (black), 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.
Good player, maybe great, but why no USB connection!?Reviewed by Timothy Neumark, 2010-03-02
I haven't done much with this device except move audio files onto
it and listen to them. I've also listened to radio. These features
are both fine.
Really I'm just posting this review to make note of one thing: the
physical connection to your PC is NOT a standard USB or USB Mini
port. Instead, they have their own proprietary connection. I just
cannot understand why a company would use proprietary technology in
the 21st century. So when I travel, I need to take multiple
chargers/connectors, just because of this MP3 player's connection.
That's a shame, and really poor design. (The connection is USB to
your PC, of course; just not to the device.)
I should note that I use Windows and I drag/drop files directly
into directories where I want them, and I also listen to items by
navigating to specific folders (as opposed to using the
artist/song/album tags of the mp3 file). All of this is quite
simple, with the small exception that it takes about two more
clicks than it should (on the player) to navigate to the songs
stored in folders. Not all players let you navigate via folders
(and I have them nested three or four deep), so this is a nice
feature. There's a small problem, however, that only 28-character
names are allowed for folders. The reason I need folders (as
opposed to artist/album) is that my collection is primarily
classical, and the player doesn't have a "by composer" setting for
getting to your music. The folder name limit is a problem for
classical music listeners!
cheap headphone jackReviewed by Richard Shannon, 2010-02-25
After reading all the positive reviews on Amazon, I bought 2 of
these as valentine's presents for me and my wife.
Her headphone jack seems to be okay, but the one I got a Black 4 GB
Fuze has a flimsy jack and the headphones lose the connection with
only the motion of the cable when I walk with the player in my
shirt pocket.
The jack only fits part way in, so that more than 1/8 inch of the
shaft is still sticking out. It looks like you should shove the
jack all the way in, but it won't go in very far.
Other than not having a good set of earphones because of the jack,
and the ear buds are too big, it seems like a reasonable MP3 player
for the price.
If you think you want this so you can get audibooks, Audible is a
little hard to work with also. I went to a lot of work to download
a book from them, and saved it in MP3 format so I could also listen
to it on my laptop. But the MP3 format must be converted to
audible's special format or it won't play on the Fuze.
I wish I had looked a little more before buying the Fuze.
BETTER THAN MICROSOFT'S ZUNEReviewed by CJ, 2010-02-24
After dealing with Microsoft's Zune MP3 Player, I found that there
are several disadvantages:
1. Pay $45 every 3 months for the privilege to LISTEN ONLY to music
and NOT be able to burn music. This is a stupid quarterly expense
especially when we are minding our budgets.
2. Zune freezes a lot and takes time to trouble shoot; very
frustrating.
3. Zune does NOT have a re-set button when it freezes; unlike the
Sansa Fuze.
4. Zune is bulky.
5. I went on a cruise and took our Zune. All of a sudden it does
not work because it wants me to sync with Microsoft's website in
order to confirm that I am still a valid paying customer. How in
the world am I going to do that when I am in the middle of the
ocean?! Even if I can access the Microsoft website on the ship, the
internet quality on cruise ships are as bad, if not worse, as
dial-up connection. Consequently, I was not able to use my Zune
during my cruise. As a result, my search to replace my Zune started
and I was glad to discover all the great Amazon reviews regarding
the SanDisk Sansa Fuze.
I read all the Sansa Fuze review on Amazon and purchased a Sana
Fuze 4 GB MP3. It is a great MP3 player. For the amount I was
paying Microsoft, I was able to BUY AND OWN music by downloading
directly from Amazon. My Sansa only cost $59, the Zune is
$199.
My only suggestion is to NOT use the Rhapsody software that came
with the Sansa. I read from other reviews that the Rhapsody
software is like a virus in that it is hard to get rid of the
Rhapsody software once you download it into your PC. Plus, it puts
you in a "membership" status in that you must pay periodically for
the use of the software.
Amazon did a great job in delivering the Fuze in a timely manner. I
got it in 4 days even though I selected the Free Shipping.
I use Windows Media Player to organize my songs and buy music from
Amazon. I had a bit of a learning curve when I downloaded Amazon's
software that enabled me to download MP3 music. I bought one song
for 99cents and somehow failed to download it properly in my PC. I
e-mailed Amazon and they allowed me to download the same song again
at no charge. Indeed, I am happy with the SanDisk Sansa Fuze and I
tossed my Zune in the trash.
BEST PLAYER FOR MUSIC AND AUDIO BOOKSReviewed by Flyman, 2010-02-22
Have had this for 6 months. Solid feel-- good construction-- great sound and the only audio book friendly Player I found out of 3 mp3s I purchased. The unit starts where you shut it off and the ability to move back and forward in chapters of books quickly, make this a pleasure to use----- throw in great battery life and crystal clear sound and you can't go wrong with this Ipod killer. A decent set of ear buds finishes off the pkg. Using this with free local library digital down loads thru overdrive or net library makes this the best bargain for audio books that you can find.
Somewhat satisfied linux userReviewed by Eric Wadsworth, 2010-02-22
I'm not so interested in watching video (such a tiny screen!).
Mostly I just use it to listen to music when driving, and keep it
in my pocket for listening to podcasts.
As a linux user, I avoid Windows whenever I can, but I found I had
to use it in order to get a video onto the player. Also, just
plugging the device into my linux laptop with the USB cable, I
can't see the storage on the player. So, in order to put media on
the internal storage, I had to boot to Windows. Ugh.
I bought an 8GB micro-SD card, which I just plug into my laptop,
and drag media onto it. There is a PODCASTS directory, which is
under the MUSIC directory for some reason, but I just drop podcasts
there, and they show up in the device as I expect. Same as
music.
Works great for my purposes. There is probably a way to get linux
to see the internal memory on the device, but I just haven't spent
the time to figure it out yet.
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