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SanDisk Sansa Fuze 8 GB MP3 Player (Silver) | 
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| Brand: SanDisk
Category: CE
List Price: $129.99
Buy New: $97.00
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Rating:  146 reviews
Sales Rank: 372
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Display Size: 1.9
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 3.1 x 1.9 x 0.3
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: SDMX14R-008GS-A57
Model: SDMX14R-008GS-A57
UPC: 619659049652
EAN: 0619659049652
ASIN: B0015KYV3Q
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| 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 |
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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.
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 This is awesome! January 1, 2009
I got this for my birthday in november and now in january, its still working! There were some reveiws that said it broke after a few days, but I think that if you got a iPod, sell it and buy this! I is better than the iPod, I love this MP3 player!!!!!!!!!
Credit-card sized MP3 Player with great sound! January 1, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My Christmas present this year was the Sansa 8GB Fuze, an MP3 player that can play music and videos, as well as display photos, record your voice, and play FM radio. It is the size of a credit card, about 3-4 times as thick and I think it's incredible.
I love audiobooks. Now, why did I wait till I was over 50 to discover these miracles? You can be knitting, working, doing housework and listening to books being read to you. It's heaven! The Fuze works with Audible.com's site as one of the devices to download from their manager, or you can put cd music, books and other mp3 format sound onto the clip with minimal difficulty. The Fuze also comes with a disk that hooks you up with Rhapsody, the online subscription music service.
In addition, you can carry your favorite pictures and even run videos, though I would not recommend watching a full-length film on the ca. 2 inch screen. Still, for a boring plane flight, a familiar tv show or music video could be a way to pass the time. Or you can download your vacation video and watch and share.
What Comes With It
The Fuze comes with a set of earbud headphones (fairly decent quality for what they are, but those don't fit my tiny ear canals.) Also a cable for connecting to your USB port, which is how you connect for downloading and for charging as well. A small envelope-style case of soft vinyl completes the ensemble.
If you really get into using your Fuze, you will probably want better headphones (I had no choice--the standard buds don't fit me, so I picked up a pair of Sennheiser CX400 Headphones that have three sizes of inside-the ear buds. The smallest fits me and the sound is decent for the price.
You'll also want a case for the Fuze, and possibly and armband holder for exercise or walking and a silicon skin, to protect it. Finally, there are car and wall chargers for when you are not near a computer you can use to charge the unit, as the USB connector doubles as charge and interface to computer.
Battery Life and Interface
The battery life is about 25 hours for music and about 6 for videos (enough for a longish flight.)
The interface is accessed through a wheel on the front plus a "home" button. It is a standard roll-through and select. Volume is changed by running around the wheel with your finger.
In addition to the (largish) USB interface, there is a slot for a microSD card slot to add more memory. It accepts high-capacity cards, which are available up to 16GB of memory.
Sound
I find that the Fuze is best for vocal sound--the lows and highs are not as pronounced for classical music, nor the bass outstanding. Even borrowing someone's fabulous set of Klipsch headphones, I did not think the sound was as good as a mini-disk player. But it's more than acceptable. Since I intend to use this for vocal and voice, I was very happy. The sample "Danny Boy" song included on the Fuze pretty much shows the range you can achieve.
The FM radio is very good and has 40 presents (you hit the bottom of the wheel while tuned to your station. This also brings up the preset menu so you can scroll through your stations.) While radio is not the reason I bought this, our local NPR station, the famous WHYY, comes in loud and clear and is VERY enjoyable to listen to on the Fuze.
I've loaded radio podcasts (there is a podcast menu choice.)
Picture and Video
I loaded some of my pictures to the Fuze--they look fairly good, but you can't select one as your background. You can scroll through or do a slideshow.
There is a video clip of a concert included and I haven't gotten around to loading any of our own videos. The concert clip is too small on the 1.9 inch screen to really see anything.
Summary
For versatility, the Fuze is excellent. If you don't need video, I'd go with The Clip, because it's the size of your thumb and fits on a collar for better portability. The Fuze fits nicely into a shirt pocket or even pants pocket or you can add an armband. The sound is good, though not stunningly excellent. Add a better set of headphones and you have portable entertainment for hours.
to Sansa E260 owners . . . January 1, 2009
I recently upgraded from Sansa's 4GB E260 player to the 8GB Sansa Fuze, and have a few observations regarding the two units.
The Fuze is slightly shorter, thinner, and lighter than the E260. The Fuze is slightly wider, allowing for a slightly larger landscape display (1.5"W x 1.2"H). Color rendition is excellent. Photos and videos seem to have greater impact when viewed in landscape, making this an effective improvement. The E260 display is slightly smaller (1.4" x 1.15"), and set in portrait orientation, landscape photos appear tiny. Presently, the 8GB Fuze is available in just one color, which is more of a metallic gray, rather than the whitish silver color it appears in some photos. Like the E260, the Fuze's housing appears to be heavy duty and quite sturdy.
The selector dial on the Fuze is full sized, and easy to spin, but the layered finish on the wheel is already starting to peel off. The response is not particularly sensitive, as it can take up to five full revolutions of the wheel, to go from zero to full volume. The E260 has a tuning ring, which has a tendency to slip when turned, but it takes less than one and a half turns to reach full volume. The E260 has four selector buttons outside of the tuning ring, while the Fuze's selector dial operates similar to the ipod's control ring, though Sandisk appears to still be behind the technology that ipods had years ago. The Fuze's controls are nowhere near as smooth, sophisticated, or as sensitive.
Moving the locking switch to the right side, and combining it with the on/off function seems to be a positive change for the Fuze. The same can't be said for relocating the headphone jack from the top of the player to the bottom. Most earphones, including those that come with the Fuze, have a straight pin jack, and if you carry the player in a pocket, it will usually end up upside down so the jack will be on top. Retraining your brain to operate the controls when the player is upside down, may prove to be an annoyance for some. Same goes for having to turn the player right side up to read the display. Why not just provide an earphone with an "L" shaped jack?
Sound quality of the two players appears equivalent. Memory is expandable, via micro SD cards, though unlike the E260, the Fuze is compatible with cards larger than 2GB. Like the E260, the Fuze also goes into the irritating refresh memory mode, but at least the down time is shorter. `Recently Added', a longtime standard item on the ipod's menu, is available on the Fuze, with the newest 50 entries being noted. Also `Audio Books' and `Podcasts' are in separate categories, instead of being a subcategory of `Genres'. Audio, image, or video files located either in the internal flash memory or on micro SD card, can be deleted via the menu. A useful feature, though very slow to execute.
Like the E260, a media converter program is typically used to transfer photos and videos to the player. The Fuze uses a different program than E260. The latest version, can be downloaded from Sandisk's website. The new converter seems to work about twice as fast as the older one. The FM radio on the E260 wasn't impressive, but the reception and sound on the Fuze seems to be an improvement. Hopefully the long term battery life for the Fuze will match or better the E260, which can easily last for several years. With either player, getting a tight-fitting silicone protector sleeve or hard case, and a screen protector, is recommended.
Overall, the new features and increased memory capacity, plus getting the Fuze on sale, made the upgrade from the E260 a positive experience. Though it lacks some of the ipod's refinements, the Fuze is reliable, rugged, easy to use, has long battery life, expandable SD memory, and is less expensive.
Pretty good MP3 player, (4.5 stars) December 31, 2008
No issues with the seller. Product was delivered as promised.
Great value. Only about $40 more than the Shuffle I purchased last year but holds about 8 times as much with a lot more features. Easy to use interface. The Fuze holds all my CDs with about 4 Gig left. The Rhapsody software easily converted my Itunes songs in a reasonable timeframe. I am planning to convert all my albums too and should have ample space.
There are only a couple of issues I have seen thus far and may be user error. One is when charging the unit, you need to be in a mode, (like settings), to prevent the unit from continuing to play and running the battery down. The second issue is, I have not seen a way to download movies to the player. I assume you need additional software to copy movies to your PC in MP4 format then copy to the Fuze.
An all around winner December 31, 2008
I won't go into great technical detail, as there are already plenty of reviews here that do that.
I will say that at the price point you can find this, especially when it's on sale, you won't find a better deal. Some people have said it's an iPod Nano rip-off. Okay that's fair. But for around half the price of the Nano, you get the same functionality, plus FM radio, voice recording, FM recording, and expandable microSDHC memory (it has 8gb built in, you'll soon be able to buy 32gb SDHC cards, right now it's about $15 for 8gb or $50+ for 16gb).
The video playback is great, though it can take a while - depending on your pc hardware - to convert the video and load it on the fuze. The audio great, as it should, and the interface for podcasts and audio books is great as well. For the best features, make sure you update the firmware when you get it.
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