Sansa Fuze Accessories

When you have the Sandisk Sansa fuze you can fuse all of your music, movies, multimedia in one place for when you are on the go, be it in the car or plane or even train. This amazing device has a 1.9 inch (call it 2 inch for arguments sake) screen and incredible 0.3 inch thickness and has 24 hours of battery life and if that is not all can store upto 2000 songs!!

Benefits:

Music Player
This amazing product is as compact as a standard credit card, twice as thin as the average wallet and has some serious juice under the hood to match. With storage for up to 2000 song files you can listen all day long as if you remembered your spare battery you can go all night too. This comes with FM radio with 40 presets and also an included digital voice recorder.

Watch Your Favorite Videos
This Sansa Fuze comes with a built in 8gb memory with the option to expand with another 8gb sandisk in the future giving you a basic 5 hours of video playtime. It also comes with a USB 2.0 connection which allows fast transfer of files from your PC computer.

Expandable Capacity
You also have the option of entending the capacity way beyond the in-built 8gb limit in a microSD or SDHC memory card slot, giving you essentially unlimited storage. Stuff the device full of songs, images or even videos for those long trips or even visits to the in-laws!

Compatible Formats
The players has support for the standard Mpeg4 video file, standard mp3 audio format, secure and unsecure WMA, Overdrive and Audible file formats.

FM Radio
If you want to give your own songs a miss or even get the television frequency when out simply use the digital FM tuner, you can save your favourites, up to 40 presets.

Voice Recorder
The voice recorder thatis built in can be used to take memos, record meetings or lectures or whatever you wish, it is your Fuze, you decide what you wish to record. When you are done simply transfer the files for listening on your PC at any time.

What you get:
SanDisk Sansa Fuze 8 GB MP3 player (silver), earphones, USB 2.0 cable, quick start guide

Listen, watch and play all day with up to 24 hours of battery power and room for hundreds of pics and flicks. This device is smaller than a credit card and as thin as a pen, this clever little player can put up to 2,000 songs, 12 two-hour movies, or even 4,000 photos in your pocket. Unlike other MP3 players, your Sansa Fuze isn't done when your battery has died. Just re-charge it and while you're doing that consider adding another memory card and keep growing your entertainment library. 

Listen
Keep hundreds of tunes or hours of audiobook listening at the ready wherever you go. Or tune into FM radio for news and fresh music anytime. And you've got up to 24 hours for audio playback and 5 hours of video playback with your internal rechargeable battery.

Watch
Keep hours of home video or your favorite movies at the ready--and load them onto your Sansa Fuze player quickly thanks to USB 2.0 connection. Just drag and drop files from your Windows Media Player 10 or 11 applications.
 
Record
With the built-in microphone, you can record memos, lectures or all those unexpected, mic-worthy moments throughout your day. When you're ready, transfer the files to your PC for listening and sharing.

Grow
Storage possibilities are essentially unlimited because, unlike other MP3 players, you can swap out the memory card. So get a bigger card or start a memory card library to hold your whole universe of entertainment.

Get together
The Sansa Fuze player supports MPEG-4 video files and audio files saved in MP3, secure and unsecured WMA, WAV, Audible and Overdrive file formats.

So what's in the box?
SanDisk Sansa Fuze MP3 player, earphones, USB 2.0 cable, quick start guide.

Final review:

A few final notes. The boot-up is about 3-5 seconds from off to playing music after pressing the power button. It will resume the music exactly where you left it when turning it off.

What is really impressive about this package is the price, size and capacity, the codec support is good and it will satisfy the need of 99% of the mp3 market, video synching is perfect with no japanese martial arts film dubbing syndrome and there is no stutter buffer. The picture viewing works great and the pictures are of high quality and are easy to see in all lighting conditions.

Voice recording is one of the more useful modes which allows you to make notes as you are wandering through life otherwise oblivious to your surroundings and the Fuze can be held a distance away from your mouth so there is no distortion.

The radio is of similar usability with easy station browsing, easy to add to presets and the reception is of a very high standard too.

The headphones that come with this unit fit well and sound good, the volume going higher than you would expect and if running or similarly exercising hard you don't need to turn the unit to full blast and yet can still hear environmental sounds without it being drowned out. The build quality is solid and it has a generous weight to be noticable but not one where you feel it could bounce away when running where you would not miss it. The screen does attract fingerprints like all devices of this type but has resisted all attempts to scratch it up to now.

Expansion works well, simply buy another SD card and plug it in, and you are ready to go.
Navigation around the unit is intuitive and the scroling buttons easy to find when the unit is not directly in front of you.

You can also add files from commonly known software such as winamp and windows media player without fuss and the database updates automatically and doesn't take that long at all, maybe 30 seconds for a completely full player. You will find that the boot up is about 5 seconds from cold and it starts from where you left it when the Sansa Fuze was turned off. The actual inbuilt usable memory is about 7.8gb, plenty enough for most applications.

A non-proprietary dock connection may be useful in future models

With options for pink case covers too or an optional black unit there is one to suit all tastes.

Final Scoring:
If I was to give this a rating it would be 4.7 out of 5, there are always to be updates to the firmware that can be done and little things like making a standard recharge point next time but this is minor. I have not yet encountered a more usuable, reliable and impressive mp3 player yet for the price. In future models I might hope they will not use a proprietary dock connection but this is a fantastic bargain as it is.

At current time of writing the price is £70 however with a little searching you may be able to shave a few pounds off. The price is still a great one for such a well made machine.