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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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 Best all-around digital media player! |
| Review Date: April 18, 2008 |
| Reviewer: William O. Moore, |
Hands down, this is the best digital media player I have purchased. After three failed attempts at buying an updated media player (Insignia Pilot 8GB - terrible sound quality, Creative ZEN 8GB - terrible interface software with the computer) I finally found the Sansa Fuze.
This player had everything I was looking for: low price point, large memory capacity (8GB), an exandable memory port (microSDHC), FM radio capability, and small size.
The unit itself looks and feels of quality construction, the interface with the computer is simple (just drag & drop to either internal or external memory) and it has amazing battery life. I've had no problems charging the unit on my laptop or via a USB A/C adapter. The manual clearly states that some USB ports are not powerful enough to charge the unit, particularly those on the front of the computer, and in that case to try the back USB ports.
As for video quality, I can't speak to it. The Fuze has only a 1.9" screen, so if you bought it to watch videos you must have microscopes for eyes.
Overall, the Sansa Fuze is the best bang for the buck in terms of sound quality, construction, ease of use, and functionality. If you're looking for an excellent digital media player, you've found it! |
no more apple
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| Review Date: May 12, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Mr Gaga, Saarland |
After having used an iPod mini for about 4 years, I decided it was time to try something else. Because of the unbeatable price of the Sansa Fuze and the nice features, I decided to buy this player - and I'm very happy I did! I added a 8gb microsd card, making it a 16gb player for only about $200.
The quality of the product seems to be very good, and the display does not get scrateches as fast as an iPod does. The display is very clear and bright, so you can even enjoy videos or movies on the Fuze, if you are all right with a small display. The handling is very similar to the iPod, so you will get comfortable with it quickly if you used an iPod previously.
I like being able to listen to FM radio from time to time or record something - that can be quite useful. The only little problem I have with the Fuze is that there are a few minor things in the software i don't like. Overall, however, i would definitely recommend buying the Fuze - it does not always have to be an apple, especially if you can get something better for a lower price! |
an excellent alternative to ipod nano
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| Review Date: July 7, 2008 |
| Reviewer: A. Alegria, Industry, CA United States |
I've had mp3 players before ipods were introduced. So I have a history of trying many of them. My last purchase was the 30 gbyte creative vision:M. Which is still running very well but compared to what is available now, it is rather big to take to the gym.
So I decide to keep my creative player at home, docked to the home audio system and get myself a smaller flash player to take around. Funny how we go in circles. My first 16 Megabyte player was flash. Then we had to move to disk drive for higher capacities, and now we are back to flash memory catching up to the disk drive capacity of a few years ago.
I considered going to the newest Zen by Creative. Although it was smaller than my disk drive Vision M, it wasnt as small as I wanted it to be.
I considered the new Sony walkmans as well, they have great reviews out there, great sound, great earphones out of the box, and are smaller yet, but unfortunately they did not support Audible files which I must have.
That left me considering for a long time buying the third generation nano ipod.ipods are good players, and very sexy. They fit the bill of small size and support for audiobooks, but the close system of itunes puts me off. I like freedom of choice, I dont like being told which features are good for me. And then there is the price. They certainly can add more stuff to the nano at that price. I never got why I have to pay a premium for a brand name.
Enough bashing ipod, checking Audible support I came across sansa players. I have never owned a sansa player and I did not like the look of their first mp3 players. Maybe that is why I came to them at last, and found the Fuze. I read the reviews at amazon and other experts out there I decided to go for it.
Now that I have it, I am very surprised. It is almost as small as a nano, and just almost as sexy. I like the solid feel of the construction. The use of the wheel is intuitive and navigation is a breeze. The sound is great, but I was not surprised there. The sansa clip and fuze are one of the top sounding mp3 players out there. The slightly thicker size, by only 0.05 in compared to nano, is needed because it has an fm radio (you cant get that standard with the nano). Not a must for me, but very nice, when I just want to listen to some talk shows.
Another nice thing is voice recording. I get in meetings were assignments get dished out fast by not so well organized people. So I do record the assignments to see what I must do and who does everything else. When they start asking if I did this or that, I replay the voice recording and then tell them where to shove it.
Cons: the screen is not great for videos, but I knew that when I bought it. In album navigation, it wants to load a picture of the album cover. This is rather slow, I wish it did not do that. For the 8 Gbyte version, the one I bought, there is only one color option (grey color, it is not silver as it looks in the pic).
Well, overall, I love this player. It is my new toy and I am enjoying it and taking it to the gym. I strongly recommend it if you want an alternative player to the nano, you want to get more features, and pay less.
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Better than an ipod nano
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| Review Date: April 19, 2008 |
| Reviewer: A. Koop, |
| Picked up the 8gb fuze last week and have been using it since. I was debating on this, the nano, and the sony players, but in the end opted to pick up the fuze. The expandability, sound quality, size, and price all made this guy a clear winner. No garbage software necessary to add music, just simply drag and drop your desired tracks. I just wish there were some more cases available for this thing, in due time I suppose. |
Fuses Value with Style
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| Review Date: July 20, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Albert Lee Esse, |
Cons
* If you add or remove content on your Fuze with a computer, you may have to wait, depending on the amount of content on your Fuze, a few minutes for the Fuze's database to refresh.
* For songs loaded onto a card, the song ratings are lost following a database refresh.
* Cannot load a picture to use as wallpaper.
* Supplied earbuds are OK, but you should upgrade to something better if you care about sound quality.
Pros
* Excellent sound quality.
* Easy to use.
* Selectable between Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) mode or Mass Storage Class (MSC) mode, so the Fuze should be compatible right out of the box with just about every modern home computer. Syncs with a wide variety of media players or just copy-and-paste your music.
* Relatively inexpensive for about 7.5 GB of actual usable memory.
* You can expand the memory by an additional 32 GB.
* Not as stylish as some Samsung or Apple MP3 players, but much better than previous ugly SanDisk MP3 players.
* Can browse by folders and files.
* Is heavy enough so that it does not feel like it came out of a cereal box.
* Eight seconds to boot.
* Has an FM-radio tuner and a built-in microphone for voice recordings. You can also record from the radio.
* Displays and allows editing of song ratings.
* You can, while the song is playing, display the album art, name of the artist, album name, genre, size of the file, codec, bit rate, whether the bit rate is a constant bit rate or a variable bit rate, etc.
* Can browse by most-recently-added songs.
* There are still some problems to be solved, but at least SanDisk is listening to its customers and trying to solve them in a future firmware update or updates. Please take a look at the official Fuze forum for a list of problems solved, features added, and problems that SanDisk is aware of and is trying to solve in the next firmware update or updates.
* Gives remaining battery life as a percentage.
The actual colour of this MP3 player is grey, not silver. Four-and-a-half stars. |
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