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 Best mp3 player i ever had September 3, 2006
Nataliya Nazarenko (Brooklyn, NY)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
i had a lot of mp3 players, i switch them every about two months and this is the best yet.
this is like a supped up version of nano, even thou its like 3 mm wider
pro'a
-music is outstandably loud
-songs continue from where you left off
-equalizer
-fast prosesor
-scratch resistant (cary it my pocket all the time and not a scratch)
-easy to switch songs and go throu/make playlists
-YOU CAN WATCH MOVIES ON THIS
CONS
- the video conversion can be a little fast, a full length dvd took about 15 mins to convert and transfer
- sandisk coulda provided better headphones.... look cheapish but feel good
- video quality is great, but not to great for widescreen movies
- the buttons smudge a bit
overall this is a very good product and is worth every peny and more
Well Worth the Wait May 6, 2006
Jonathan C. Bareham (Maine, USA)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
I've been reading about the Sansa e250 since it was launched at the CES in Las Vegas in January. I'm glad I waited until it was finally available; it's a feature-rich package at a great price that really does give the iPod Nano a run for it's money.
It's true that the controls take a while to get used to - but let's face it, it's always going to be hard to beat iPod's click wheel for ease of use. I have no real complaints and set-up for me was very easy - I was listening within minutes.
I did consider the c140/c150, launched at the same time, but they feel really flimsy and I have seen reviews questioning sound quality. No such problems with the e250 - I'd recommend it without hesitation.
Best mp3 Player May 5, 2006
Wesley
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
Wow! I just got my Sandisk Player and it's really cool. It has lost of features such as subscription compatibility, an FM tuner/recorder, voice recording, and photo and video playback into a compact and durable device. I love the tactile navigation wheel.
And unlike the ipod you can actually remove and change the battery. Another cool bonus is that I can store mp3 on Micro SD cards, then load them on the player as I see fit. Hence, this give this player unlimited storage capacity. Great player
Great mp3 player, and awesome value November 30, 2007
Haik (Seattle, WA USA)
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
The Sansa e250 isn't the greatest mp3 player ever made, but its the perfect one for me. It had all the features I wanted, and didn't have all the features I didn't want, thereby saving me a ton of money. Here are some overviews:
Design:
Its not quite as responsive as the iPod, so it doesn't feel quite as smooth when you're navigating throughout the interface, but its really not a problem, its a no frills mp3 player. Its very small, and lightweight, but feels quite durable. The scroll-wheel (like an ipod) isn't quite as sleek as anything I've ever seen, but it works well. Around the wheel are 4 buttons. One toggles pause/play, two of them skip to the next track or previous, and the one below goes back to the menu, so you can browse your stuff while the music is on. There is also a power button and a voice record button on the side. The screen is good for browsing through music and good enough for a few pictures. I wouldn't watch videos on it, so if you're really big on videos, not only does this thing not have enough space to have too many vids, but also really the screen is too small. One last note, there's a button in the top which effectively acts as a screen-lock. If the white is showing, its unlocked. Otherwise, if the orange is showing, its locked.
Basic Overview:
-Charges through USB cable to computer-2GB Flash Memory: for people who don't need all of their music on their player at once, this is actually enough. You're going to have to plug it in to the computer to charge anyway, so how hard is it to drag and drop a few files? Also, this player comes with a MicroSD slot, so you can upgrade the storage. Additional 4GB of space costs about $33 on amazon, so you can have a 6GB mp3 player for not too much more if you're not happy with the 2GB it comes with.
-Around 1.5 inch screen diagonally measured
-20 hours of battery life: I actually cannot verify this personally, but I have used it probably for 12 or more hours and it has not died (it actually has not died on me ever)
-Voice recorder: Its not like one of those things where you can leave it on a desk and it'll record a conversation 50 feet away, but if you hold it near your mouth and talk into it, then you can make voice notes with no problem.
-FM Tuner: Self explanatory, its a good quality FM tuner which lets you listen to FM radio
-Advanced features such as playlists: I have not used playlists because I swap music all the time but the feature is there
-Shuffle/Loop modes
Getting Music On:
-There are two USB modes that this mp3 player supports. I don't quite remember their names, I think the acronyms were MSC and MMC or something like that. The difference between these is, one of them requires you to syncronize your mp3 player using some included software. I found this quite pathetic and instead switched to the other mode (you can consult the manual for more specifics, but its an option in the 'settings' and I think its MSC) and that way when I plug in, it finds my mp3 player, and I can open it in "My Computer", and simply drag the files into the "Music" folder. Now, I can either sort these neatly by making folders for each artist and album, or I can just throw the tracks in there and the Sansa will sort and arrange them.
RockBox:
This is the most important section! If you know whats good for you, you'll upgrade the firmware of this mp3 player to use RockBox software. Just google it, and follow the instructions, and you can totally upgrade your sansa. There are HUGE advantages to this, some of which include a better interface, custom themes you can download, much much more customizability and options, Last.FM support (if you have a last.fm profile, you can enable it, and it'll write your tracks into a file, and you can take that file and upload it somewhere and it'll sync it with your last.fm profile). Also, RockBox enables you to resume playback and all this funky stuff, and gets rid of the minor complaint I have (see "problems' section). RockBox is great, there's even a mode where it'll read the settings out loud to you. But the absolute best part of RockBox are.......the games! RockBox comes with about probably 30-40 great games which are fully playable, including pacman, tetris, chess, bejeweled, and a lot more. But my personal favorite is, Doom! Yes, you heard me right, the full 3D version of Doom (Freedoom) is on this thing, and its really playable and quite fun. Sort of amazing that top of the line computers barely ran Doom, and now a cheap mp3 player can run it?
Problems:
This was the hardest section for me to write about this sansa, because there are so little problems with it, especially after upgrading to rockbox. But, after much effort I have come up with two.
1. The "Database Bug" as I have coined it. If you use software to shuffle music to your mp3 player until its full, such as the feature in Windows Media Player sync option, it'll totally fill up the drive. The problem is, when you copy all your songs over and turn the drive on, it'll search all the tracks for their information, and make a database out of them, enabling you to sort them by artist, album, songs, etc (as on all mp3 players). This process of creating the database takes well over a minute, and in the end, it'll work, but won't be able to save it because you filled up all the space on it. So each time you turn it on, it'll have to create the database for over a minute. The solution for this is, either try RockBox (although I haven't tried it yet and am not sure how it'll work), or just delete some songs off of it, which leads me to #2
2. If you delete a song off your mp3 player AFTER the database has been created and saved, chances are, especially if you're shuffling your music, you're going to bump into that track information, and your player will look for it, see its gone, and an annoying "corrupted file" error will come up, and then it'll automatically go to an arbitrary song, which is the same everytime, so you have to press skip twice. I deleted an artist from mine which was about 1/8th of my total collection, and it drove me nuts since I skip tracks a lot when shuffling as is, and after every song or two I'd bump into that error
3. When you stick rockbox on this, while you're syncing, if something goes wrong or you turn off your device improperly (I'm not sure exactly how it happens), the blue wheel will be illuminated, and then you can't turn on your player and it can't syncronize. This really worried me the first time it happened, and it is a problem with RockBox. The solution to this is to press the power button for probably 15 seconds (yes it really takes that long) and it'll do a "hard-reboot."
The Competition:
I started off this long-winded review by pointing out why I think the Sansa e250 is not the perfect mp3 player, but its the perfect one for me, so let me explain why.
I paid $35 for this (got it used, but in great condition [refurb]). I could have paid $250 and got an ipod, but I paid almost 8 times less for this. And here's what this has which the ipod doesn't:
1. Smaller, more lightweight, more portable
2. FM Tuner
3. Voice recorder
4. Custom themes (an assumption I guess)
5. Lots of games, and fun ones
6. I can play Doom on it!
The only downside is, its not enough storage, (oh and it isn't white, oh no), but I can buy a microSD card and throw it in a can of bleach, so problem solved!
So I hope this review helped you, and hope you decide to get this great mp3 player.
Everything I could ask for & more - PLUS excellent file organization September 2, 2006
JerryL (Sea Girt, NJ United States)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
After reading Mark Butts review below, I wasn't sure if I would be happy with the choice of this device.
To the contrary, I discovered (after calling SanDisk support twice) how I could easily create Playlists in Windows Media Player and transfer (synchronize) each named Playist independently to the e250. Problem is that there's one IMPORTANT step that MISSING in the user manual! Once you've created a Playlist in WMP, you MUST check "automatic" synchronize for the list to make it over to the e250. Otherwise, the songs will transfer to the ONE default folder, in alpha order and while they nicely populate the several sorts provided, alpha sorting only (as Mark described he was getting), would be unacceptable to most anyone.
I find the player pleasingly smaller in size than expected based on photos, the earphones work well, just not as comfortable as others I have and will use, the user interface takes a bit of playing with, but is quickly mastered.
There were questions about resuming after turning the device off:
Music resumes where you left off - however, Voice recording works differently, it starts by displaying the list, allowing you to select which recording you want to hear.
The features of this device are outstanding. I have transferred pictures, modified the EQ settings to my listening preferences, set up the date/clock, backlight, etc.
Just recently tried capturing voice, sounds fine, see my note above. I've yet to try video from my camera to it.
Support from SanDisk has been very good. The documentation is only fair and I suggest that you read the instructions on screen from the PDF as it's much easier than trying to strain your eyes with the paper docs.
As SanDisk had none to offer, I purchased an Irocks 1050 usb/ac charger/adapter for 9.99. About the size of a large walnut, it supports 100-240V (good for international travel) and it too works well for me.
All in all, an excellent value - Happy with the purchase!
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