SanDisk Sansa Fuze 4 GB Video MP3 Player (Black)
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.) |
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 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.
SanDisk Sansa Fuze 4 GB Video MP3 Player (Black) Accessories
SanDisk Sansa Fuze 4 GB Video MP3 Player (Black) Reviews
How did we live without these before?
I grew up with transitor radios and we have come a long way since then.
We use ours with Rhapsody and it really is the best of both worlds. We bought silicone covers for them so less likely to slip out of our hands. I spent a lot on an Iriver before this and it really didn't work well at all. At the time that was the cheaper option to expensive alternatives. When these Fuzes came out it was hard to pass up the price. They now make smaller Sansas but I don't think my eyes would like the smaller screen on them. Everyone in our family bought one. Radio Shack had this one year warranty at the time and that is where I bought mine. Another member bought theirs at Toys R Us. So many places to find these. We have yet to replace batteries for these. I wish the ear pieces were more comfortable. There are all sorts of improvements I would like to see down the road for these but it will be hard to find anything close to this for this price.
Let me keep this simple; the price is right, it's very easy to use, I only downloaded one program and I can quickly and easily upload mp3. It's perfect in size, very slim and durable, plenty of settings you can change, plenty of storage capacity. I've had mine over a year with no battery issues, no playback issues, etc. Great investment!
This is my third for my family.SOOOOOOOOO much beter than ipod.Only negative is lack of acessories.
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!
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.
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