SanDisk Sansa e260 4 GB MP3 Player with MicroSD Expansion Slot (Black
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Customer Review: Magnificient mini-music maker machine
Summary: 5 Stars
After the initial craze of Ipods had begun to die down a bit, more manufacturers started testing the waters with their own versions. All of my friends owned Ipods, but I decided to do some research before I committed myself to a particular product. After reading hundreds upon hundreds of reviews (I'm rather picky~), I settled on the Sansa e260. It was a great decision on my part.
I have had my Sansa for four months now. It is small and light though solid in design. The light up wheel is wonderful and rather easy to utilize. The colored screen is very clear and I have no problems reading or navigating through it. And who can't help but enjoy the amount of memory for the price? Sansa's also go on sell throughout the year so it's good to keep an eye out for the deals. The music that is produced by this wee music machine is beautiful and truly sounds great. How such remarkable clarity of sound can emerge from such a tiny contraption is beyond me, but I'm thankful for it! This is, hands down, the best on the market.
There are only a couple gripes from me. I still have yet to find a way to make adequate play lists other than using the "To Go" list for my music. Also, the Sansa came with those cheapy ear buds (as all the mp3 players unfortunately do). Since I have sensitive ears, I was getting earaches from using the ear buds and they also kept slipping out of my ears so I went to Circuit City and got a pair of head phones that clipped over my ears. They were only ten dollars and even have adjustable volume control on them. No more ear aches and no slipping = wonderful!
On another positive product note, I bought one of those Action Jackets by DLO and it is perfect when I go running. I always keep my Sansa in the jacket and it is great protection for my little music maker. The Sansa e260 is wonderful. After checking the manufacturer's website, I saw that there will be more accessories coming out (hopefully soon). I can't wait to get a car transmitter for it :-)
5 stars all the way from me and two happy thumbs up.
Customer Review: SanDisk e260 review
Summary: 5 Stars
As far as my experiences go, loading music is fairly simple via drag and drop in Windows. I initially attempted to manage the transfers via WinAmp 5x, but found that doing so creates some tagging quirks, such as pushing dates of albums to years like 2098 etc. Trying to correct this tagging issue via WinAmp's Auto tag or manual adjust failed, sometimes with the PC freezing. I recommend avoiding actual management of your e260's media library via WinAmp, playback from within WinAmp seems fine however.
The player's weight and size are both comfortable. With it's metal backed case, the e260 feels solid. The unit is not so small and light that you're afraid of losing it, nor so bulky that it couldn't be carried in a shirt pocket without feeling weighed down by.
Browsing music and player features is easy via the dial navigation feature. The display is bright and legible though text appears a bit pixelated (looks more like text is rendered as a bitmap).
The supplied media management software (Sansa Media Converter by Arcsoft)seems fairly capable. I performed a test run on a 19 Mb, 4 + minute music video in .MOV file, which the software formatted & transferred to the e260 in under 5 minutes (AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 4400 [2.31 Ghz] w/3Gb of RAM). A downside of transferring videos to the player appears to be that the original file size will expand by %200 - %250 ie , I began the transfer process with a 19 Mb video file on the PC; the file size ballooned to 50Mb on the e260. Too bad this one doesn't support .MP4.
For the price (approx $60) and features, this is IMO a difficult player to pass: FM tuner with presets, graphic EQ presets, Micro SD slot for added storage (not certain of maximum capacity), video playback, photo viewer,voice recording and it doubles as portable file storage.
If your in the hunt for a compact MP3 player but don't want to drop the $ for an Ipod Nano, this is a nice alternative. The e260 is also a little friendlier to navigate vs the Creative Mozaic for folks with large hands.
Customer Review: Excellent MP3 player
Summary: 5 Stars
OK I will admit I am not a huge Apple fan. I was looking for anything but an IPOD. I searched and read reviews for 3 months about all the different players available. A friend bought a Nano for Christmas and I was impressed but like I said I am not an Apple fan.
So finally I had just decided to give in and buy a Nano. I had given up trying to find a better alternative or even one that was close.
But to my surprise I read a last minute review of the SanDisk Sansa e260. It sounded great but would it really compare?
Believe me, it does!!! It offers more than I ever would have guessed. It comes with a built in FM tuner so you don't have extra attachments and costs associated with it. I don't know how much I will use it but it is a nice "free" feature.
The audio player is excellent and has 8 preset EQ's.
The video is great and also the Pics but I bought it primarily as an MP3 player. The screen is amazingly clear and bright. Much better than the Nano.
That brings me to the real selling point for me. You can use the included software to manage your music or you can use Windows Media Player but the beautiful this about this player is you can connect to your PC\Laptop as a usb drive.
Since I already have about 20 GB of music on my Laptop converted and normalized. All I have to do is drag and drop the music I want to Sansa drive and media folder. The transfer for a standard CD is about 10 seconds. So far I haven't found anything that didn't play on the Sansa.
The other two big selling points for me are a removable\replacable battery and an memory expansion slot. Both are long overdue by other manufacturers.
The Sansa takes a about 4 seconds to load but it isn't an issue for me especially when it help preserve battery life.
This is a great alternative to the IPOD. In someways, it is superior. Battery life (compared with my pals Nano), screen clarity, Expansion slot, USB drive mode, Built in Voice recorder and FM tuner. All this and $50 less than the comparable IPOD Nano.
Customer Review: Good job Sandisk
Summary: 5 Stars
First, I have to admit that I was never a fan the Ipod. Too proprietary for my taste and the Ipod crowd tends to be a pack of pretentious followers. I have seldom been as happy with an electronics purchase as I have been with this little MP3 Player. I have not needed to utilize product support for this item, so I have no valid comments to share in that department. Functionality of this device is great, the menus are fairly intuitive and the overall capabilities are outstanding. There are many more devices marketed to compete with this one which fall way short. I use mine for everything from working out (outside in the elements) to reading and ebooks and have stored some of my college lectures on it(video). It has not failed me yet and the battery life fantastic. The software that comes with this device is somewhat useful; although, I have found that my favorite feature is how easy it is to drag and drop my mp3's and WMA files into the device window while paired with my computers. That's right, I said computers. 2,3, a dozen, it doesnt matter with the Sansa; unlike MANY other MP3 players that don't like to share themselves(this should be especially important for you student and office types). It has paired with every XP machine I have plugged it into. What I do not like about the product is that accessories (and I didn't buy the thing for a bunch of accessories) have been slow to catch on; however, they are finally cropping up. This is my experience with the Sansa e260, which I have owned for over 6 months and counting. I was somewhat reluctant to purchase this due to apprehension of its smaller memory capacity but I have more than adequate memory for practical use. I rip fairly high bitrate files (at least 192) and have a ton of files onboard. I have yet to utilize the Micro SD slot. The volume control, IMO, is easy to confidently use blind. It does not require you to focus strictly on the controls when adjusting volume or thumbing through songs (ie. while driving or working out). I hope this helps you decide on your purchase.Customer Review: Sweet piece of gear
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been using the E260 for about five months now, and it has been one of the better purchases I've made on Amazon. Sounds good, easy to use, fairly durable, reasonably priced, and it even looks good.
One of my teenage son's friends checked it and said he liked it better than the Nano. I agree with him that the Sansa wheel is better. It's more "sure-fingered" and I rarely pick the wrong thing with it.
The menus are natural, and quick to use. I often change music while moving on an elliptical exercise machine, with no problems.
It coordinates reasonably well with Windows Media Player, so it's unnecessary to install any other software to use it. I can't say the integration is natural or perfect - it took some dinking around to get Media Player to copy over just the music I wanted. But I found a way I like even better, which is to access the device directly and just drag over the songs I want using Windows Explorer. The Sansa apparently just indexes them on the fly when I do that, because they appear in the menus right away. (The integration with Media Player was one of the main reasons I picked the Sansa, because I think iTunes is pretty sad, and the Zune doesn't work with Media Player either.)
I can't claim the included ear buds are anything special, but that's true of most MP3 players. Maximo makes a nice set of ear phones (Maximo iM-390 In-ear Earphones 2.5MM 2FT Alloy Metal + Case) specially tuned to the Sansa E-200 series, so I recommend you take a look at them if you want some high quality audio off the Sansa. Or just wear some decent, lightweight headphones.
This unit is now a pretty good bargain, and you can bump it to 6GB by getting a 2GM car for about $30. But if you have a lot of music, you might want to spring for the 8GB model, the E280. I've filled up my E260 already, but I carry about fifty albums on it.