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 enlarge | Brand: SanDisk
Category: CE
List Price: $249.99
Buy New: $53.97
You Save: $196.02 (78%)
New (14) Used (6) Refurbished (7) from $38.95
Rating:  696 reviews
Sales Rank: 72
Format: Cd
Platform: Windows
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows
Hard Drive Size: 4
Clothing Size: 4 GB
Size: 4 GB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 3.5 x 1.7 x 0.5
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: SDMX4-4096-A70
Model: SDMX4-4096-A70
UPC: 619659026363
EAN: 0619659026363
ASIN: B000ETVKHE
Release Date: April 15, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Better than an iPod, but still a few kinks July 11, 2006
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This MP3 player is a great buy. Let's go through the good and the bad on this little guy.
Pros:
A great machine. This MP3 player sounds very nice out of a fine pair of quality headphones, and even from those pack-in earbuds (that are surprisingly good themselves). The screen is beautifully clear and colorful, which is great because the system allows for video playback and image viewing. The unit feels nice in your hand or pocket and looks very stylish as well. UI is easy to navigate, even though the buttons themselves hamper use a bit. This player does not require itself to be synced to a computer player like the iTunes/iPod partnership, and therefore music can easily be added and removed with no DRM slowing (or stopping) the process. Other features like FM radio and voice-recorder are nice bonus features.
Cons:
But it's not without quirks. There are a few minor issues that must be dealt with. When you drag music in via My Computer, the Sansa ignores track numbers and plays in any order; only adding music via Windows Media Player keeps tracks in order. Player occassionally locks up during normal use, but not enough to be a bother. Face buttons are cramped by scrollwheel and a little hard to press, and the scrollwheel itself isn't as nice as, oh, a touchwheel. Also, the fast-forwarding is quite slow, and it can be a pain to find your place in an audiobook or podcast if stopped.
Minus the quirks- most of which could be fixed by a firmware update- this is one fine machine. If you want something like a iPod Nano, but would like to get more bang for your buck, then buy this player.
Klutsy, bit it sounds great July 9, 2006
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
OK, I've had it about a month and yes, the Sansa e260 and Yahoo Music have replaced my ipod. Never thought it would happen.
Pro's - The sound is wonderful. The earbuds that came with the Sansa are quite good but I am tiring of plastic in my ear so I bought a pair of Sennheiser PX 100 earphones. Great combination. All the music I want from Yahoo for a flat fee and a player that produces wonderful sound and only slightly larger than a nano. Good FM reception and sound.
Cons - A klutsy mechanical interface. Mechanical buttons you have to press very deliberately or nothing happens. The volume control/scroll wheel is mechanical, not touch-pad like like the ipods.
All in all, it's a better way to listen to all the music you can imagine on a great sounding portable device. You get used to the ideosyncraisies - and the price is right.
Above average mp3 player July 7, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have this product for about a month now. It's a nice product for the price. I dont have any major problems yet. Before buying it I have read several reviews on Internet, most of them say that it has nice featurs and a good sound quality. So, I bought it and found that its sound quality is not as good as I expected. By the way I am comparing sansa with iPod nano. At some instances I hear hissing sound in some songs which sounds great in my car audio system. I may have to see if there any setting which can improve the sound quality. I like some of the features like loading mp3s from computer. You dont have to go through format change, you can simply drag and drop as in Windows Explorer, FM radio is fairly good and ability to store and display color pictures. It is not better than iPod for sure. iPod has a nice sound and touch pad navigation, in sensa navigation is done by wheel. The height of this wheel is little more than it should be, which makes harder to press the buttons around it. Overall I found it little better than average mp3 player.
 Hmm, nice, but... July 2, 2006
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
I was really looking forward to this and when I got it I started having mixed feelings. It has a good size, feels sturdy but a bit on the heavy side. The interface is nice, easy to use, but as someone pointed out you cannot delete a file from the player, you must use the computer. The beautiful wheel gets on the way of the buttons, also pointed out by others, and though it is not very smooth it turns reasonably well unless you are trying to go through a lot of songs at once. Then there is the whole issue of only being able to charge it through an usb connection, together with the fact that it uses a proprietary cable and you can't just use one of the standard usb cables available on the market (ok, many players have the same issue...). One other concern are the openings for the microsd card slot and the cable connections that have no protection. Being able to add extra memory is a nice feature. It sounds good but the earphones that come with it are of low quality what brings me to the issue that you can't adjust the equalizer to your own settings; you have to use one of the preset options. The Sansa e260 is ok for adding some family videos to carry around, but seriously, who is going to watch a whole video in such a small screen? It is not the main purpose of the player; if you want to watch videos get a larger screen/larger storage video player. 4GB is a great amount of memory for music, that is why I bought it. Curious that the movies are .mov, a quicktime/apple standard, and yet it doesn't support mac, you can't even access it as a hard drive if you plug it into a mac.
 Fantastic player July 2, 2006
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is my first MP3 player. I found it to be clear and easy to use. The only thing I found difficult was to make a brand new playlist other then the one pre programed into it. Other then that it is a great player with nice photo and video ability.
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