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SanDisk Sansa Fuze
Engadget Review
The Sansa Fuze+ is inexpensive and feature-packed, but hampered by slow performance and a finicky touchscreen that will have you wishing for some actual buttons.
Donald MelansonOctober 01, 2010
Pros
- InexpensiveImpressive range of featuresmicroSD card slot
Cons
- Sluggish interfaceTouch panel causes problemsFeels a little cheap
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SanDisk Sansa Fuze
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- 80AVERAGE CRITIC SCORE1 ReviewsCNET80SanDisk Sansa Fuze (4GB, black) MP3 player reviewsThe SanDisk Sansa Fuze is a great value--a slim design, simple interface, plentiful features, memory expansion capability, and solid sound quality all come with an easy-to-swallow price tag.
- 86AVERAGE USER SCORE14 ReviewsEngadget Reader90August 26, 2012Feedback submitted!Unable to submit feedback!The best in its category. We highly recommend it. - EngadgetEngadget Reader90June 21, 2012Feedback submitted!Unable to submit feedback!I bought this player mostly because I could run RockBox (rockbox.org) on it. RockBox gives various new features, skinnable interface, Last.fm support, Games, Apps, and much much more. The UI is very easy and you can control it without having to look at it like with the newer touch based controls. Audio quality is great and battery life is also very long. The support for OGG (and FLAC) files is welcomed, because I have one or another album encoded in it. All in all a great choice!Engadget Reader80January 7, 2012Feedback submitted!Unable to submit feedback!There's a lot to like about this in spite of a few flaws. - EngadgetEngadget Reader90January 15, 2011Feedback submitted!Unable to submit feedback!The Sansa Fuze is a great audio player both for audiophiles and for those who are looking for a casual player. The codec support is practically hard to beat for audio.There are some features relatively unique to this player. The Fuze features expandable storage, unlike its "i" brethren. The navigation wheel will actually spin with a very nice feel. The player also has a FM radio and a microphone for voice recording, so it's not a bad choice if you are still using a micro-cassette recorder either or NPR lover. The charging cable is USB at one end, and a proprietary connector at the other.The navigation wheel on it is complemented by both a center and external button, adding a bit of complexity to navigation compared to an "i" device. Sansa did use it to add a few features but could have done without. That said, I suspect it may have been added simply to avoid infringing copy rights.Video playbackis not at its prime here, the Fuze has a small, low resolution screen which is very glossy. I would not recommend this as a mobile video player. That said, it could not be as small as it is nor as inexpensive if it had a bigger screen.Software on the player is great. Aside from regular audio playback it also has separate areas for podcasts and audio books. Make certain to get the latest firmware update, as it includes some notable improvements like acceleration in the menu scrolling. I believe it may support alternative firmwares such as rockbox as well, but there is really no need to bother.Overall, this is a great little MP3 player. It's easy to recommend this against Apple's low end product as it is much less expensive and far more capable.Engadget Reader90January 9, 2011Feedback submitted!Unable to submit feedback!The best in its category. We highly recommend it. - EngadgetEngadget Reader90December 28, 2010Feedback submitted!Unable to submit feedback!I only replaced this because I lost it! Only problem I had was occasional freezes and/or loss of place with Audible books. Never solved whether this was down to player or Audible, but I think it was the player. I would certainly buy another, but in the meantime my girlfriend has bought me a Sansa Clip.Engadget Reader80October 19, 2010Feedback submitted!Unable to submit feedback!There's a lot to like about this in spite of a few flaws. - EngadgetEngadget Reader80September 14, 2010Feedback submitted!Unable to submit feedback!There's a lot to like about this in spite of a few flaws. - EngadgetEngadget Reader100January 11, 2010Feedback submitted!Unable to submit feedback!FLAC and OGG support are rare, and this little player does them perfectly. Easy to control while in your pocket -- unlike the iPods. I find I like the FUZE's scrollwheel even better than my old iPod Nano 2nd Gen, which surprised me.It also does a great job with Podcasts, which I listen to a lot of.Syncs great using MediaMonkey, which is far more capable and configurable than iTunes, unless you're into video on these tiny devices -- which I'm not.If something happened to it, I'd buy another one in a heartbeat.Many accessories are available for the FUZE. Look for them on Amazon, which is also where I bought my FUZE. I've got a fist-sized charging dock which also has a LINE OUT which I connect to my iHome iPod player. Now that my iPod Nano died after falling in a pool, I can still use the iHome when I want big sound.Engadget Reader100October 7, 2009Feedback submitted!Unable to submit feedback!Unlike the ipod classic the Fuze1)works with linux2)has GREAT battery life -more than 10 hours continious use with 1/2 the charge to spare3)supports OGGsound quality is good,video playback is a bit sluggish and not quite in sync with soundtrack,but still quite watchable.everything (except audible.aac playback) just works right out of the box without any tom-foolery. although you need to download an aplication to convert videos to sansa fuze avi format(for some reason standard .avi won't work)in my opinion this is a much better poduct than the 6th gen ipod and at a fraction of the priceEngadget Reader60July 8, 2009Feedback submitted!Unable to submit feedback!It ain't pretty but it works. FM radio, internal mic for recording (poorly). It's a solid utility music and video drive that's expandable with microSD -- you can drop it and it still works.I'm a frequent podcast listener so I am constantly adding and removing songs from the player. Unfortunately, every time you disconnect the player from your computer, it takes a very long time to rebuild the database of included files. It has a great feature that allows you to delete files directly from the player itself but unfortunately, it does not actually remove file from the drive, just the directory. That is, the available memory stays the same. In order to actually delete the file, you have to remove it while it's connected to a computer. This would be a be a great feature for podcast listeners if it actually worked.Other problems that I have (probably because I'm a Mac user) is that all the icon image files get thrown into the unknown folder so I have about 700 unknown files in there. Occasionally, the ID3 tags are not read properly and my music files get lost in a a sea of unknown garbage.Doesn't work with apple audio/video formats. Doesn't seem to work with many video formats at all.Audio output level is fairly low -- don't try listening to this puppy with poor headphones on the subway. No luck.Engadget Reader90July 8, 2009Feedback submitted!Unable to submit feedback!Fast, easy to use, expandable and with brilliant audio quality - a thinking persons choice in the face of everybody else using white headphones ...... Expandable: the microSD slot allows for upgrading whatever the on board memory is by up to another 16Gb. I believe that the microSD stanard will allow for further growth in microSD capacity so this player could last and last. No need to dump it when you fill your 4Gb.Audio quality: this is a very subjectiove one but if you were to do a modern version of the taste test and listen to the same audio track on this plyer versus most others you would be left scratching your head, How SanDisk can get this audio quality for this money is amazing.A great player.Engadget Reader90July 6, 2009Feedback submitted!Unable to submit feedback!The two things I find to be glaring omissions from the Fuze are crossfade and line-in recording. That said, as far as traditional PMPs are concerned, you'd be hard pressed to find something better for your money. A great range of audio codecs backed by one of the nicest chipsets on the market make for a robust player that should please all but the most stringent Apple fanboy. Video playback is kinda gimmicky, but as far as this reviewer is concerned, you carry a PMP for audio first and video second. Plenty of other things help catapult this player up the charts including an FM radio, microSD expansion card slot, 5 band equalizer, podcast and audiobook support, and an easy to use, hardware controlled, interface.That said, everything's not completely rosy. Build quality is what you'd expect out of a low-cost player (had to return my first two due to bad headphone jacks out of the box). The UI is a bit dated and sometimes finicky with regards to the scroll wheel. The controls themselves feel as if they might develop mechanical problems sometime down the line. And the battery is not user replaceable, despite SanDisk's history to the contrary.All in all, you really can't do better for the money.Engadget Reader80July 5, 2009Feedback submitted!Unable to submit feedback!Nothing bad to say about this little box; I was looking for a device that plays lossless audio, and this fit the bill nicely. Shows up as a hard drive on linux machines, allows non-proprietary audio formats (flac, ogg) as well as mp3. It does video (albeit in a fixed format) as well as photos. It has a built-in FM radio and sound recorder (you can even record from the FM tuner). It is even compatible with Audible books. Battery life is very good. It will remember where you left off in podcasts, even when you switch to another podcast. It does have a rudimentary playlist creator you can add songs to, but this feature is not very flexible. Overall, at the price, it's hard to beat.
Key Specs
TYPE
Audio / video player
MEDIA TYPE
Internal, Memory card
AUDIO PLAYBACK TIME
up to 2420
AUDIO CODEC SUPPORT
Flac, Mp3, Ogg, Wma
VIDEO CODEC SUPPORT
MPEG-4
SCREEN SIZE
1.922
SCREEN RESOLUTION
220x176
WIFI
No
INSTALLABLE APPS
No
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