SanDisk Sansa Fuze 4 GB Video MP3 Player (Black) Reviews
SanDisk Sansa Fuze 4 GB Video MP3 Player (Black) Reviews
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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.) |
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 1,000 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 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.
Technical Details
- 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 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 4 GB memory with the microSD/microSDHC slot
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By Richard Shannon
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.
By CJ
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.
By Flyman (Green Valley Az)
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.
By Eric Wadsworth (Salt Lake City, UT USA)
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.
By C. Fred Zeillemaker (Ola, ID USA)
We use our two Sansa Fuze 4GB MP3's for audible books and they perform the task perfectly for us. In fact, we fall asleep most nights listening to books (Harry Potter is one of our favorite "reads") on them and they make it through the night every time following daily recharging. We think the Amazon price is very reasonable (especially compared to iPod prices!) and really like the presence of a slot that allows an unending expansion through memory cards. We have even given this model as a gift. I must reiterate that we do not listen to music on our units, so we can provide no evaluation for that use.
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