SanDisk Sansa Fuze 8 GB Video MP3 Player Black
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. (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.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars better than ipod
I wanted to buy ipod from my mom, but she need a recorder, Sansa Fuze has excellent built in recorder. Plus it has FM radio and micro SD slot. Ipod does not have any of these features. Other good thing was when I connected to Microsoft Vista, it detected sansa fuze as disk 1 and its micro SD card as disk 2, which made life easy. I did not need micro SD card adapter.
4 Stars Good to choose Fuze
The Fuze packs a lot of features for the price. Good storage capacity, decent FM radio (I’m surprised how much I use this), nice design and build quality. The headphones are kind of marginal, though. I replaced mine with the headphones that came with my computer. Better sound, longer cord, and a volume control on the cord, which I find very useful.
On the whole, I would highly recommend the Fuze to anyone shopping for an MP3 player – especially when you compare prices.
5 Stars Great player at less than half the cost of iPod
Half the cost of iPod
More features
Better sound quality-really GREAT sound quality
NO ITUNES HASSLES
Nice form factor
Good user interface
Have been using mine daily for a year and a half. No significant issues.
Occasional “fritz-out” requires re-fromatting (twice, I think)
As with any sort of computer use, careful file management gives better results.
Regarding the video, the advertising copy states: “Simply connect the player to a PC, and start dragging files from your Windows Media Player 10 or 11 applications.”
This is NOT TRUE. You need to use Sansa’s little accessory application called Sansa Media Converter. It doubles or triples the size of the file for a 1.9″ screen. Many complaints about Sansa Media Converter. Do not buy this if frequent and easy video use is very importatnt to you. I convert You-Tube videos to avi files and these little ten-minute clips work fine. Feature length films are not going to work out really well.
the micro SDHC card give you another 8 gigs or more. Add a 16 gig card and get a 24 gig machine! Plus, you could have several accessory micro SDHC cards for audiobooks, videos, etc. This feature makes it worth twice the price in my opinion.
Plus you get FM radio, FM radio recorder, voice recorder…
Plus you get free periodic firmware upgrades fixing bugs and adding features.
Rockbox add-on is already available for version 1 Fuze devices.
Amazing deal for $70 shipped free!
4 Stars Great sound!
I really love this player. Lots of features, easy to use and feels good in your hand. Very rich and full sound but could be a little louder. I do wish you could Play while charging but the screen comes on (and stays on) and displays “Connected” while plugged in. Very easy to transfer files, any kind of files.
5 Stars Sansa Fuse is awesome
My wife loves the Fuse. We were going to get the 4 gig model but got a smoking deal on the 8 gig model. It is easy to use and holds a charge for quite awhile. Happy with the purchase.
