SanDisk Sansa e260 4 GB MP3 Player with MicroSD Expansion Slot
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend The Sansa e260 MP3 players are the created by the leaders in flash memory and provides everything you need for music, photo, and video clip playback. The very attractive, sleek design includes a 1.8 TFT color screen with advanced navigational features and an easy to use interface. You can also avoid scratches and cracks with the durable Liquidmetal backing. The Sansa e260 provides superior sound… Product details and pricing info |
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697 Customer Reviews Posted
- Think carefully before you buy it
- Bottom line: when you're paying this much for an mp3 player, don't let $50 make you choose this over the nano if it's not what you really want. I chose this over an iPod nano, but I think it's basically a toss-up between the two.
Pros of the sansa:
- it's just a tad bigger than the nano
- you can download songs from pretty much anywhere
- you get voice recording, radio, and video with the sansa
- it's a little cheaper
- replacable battery- I assume they'll start selling these at some point?
Cons:
- the syncing is not exactly intuitive; it really only works well with Windows Explorer, and it's inexplicably hard to get playlists on the sansa
- if you don't press the menu button just right when you turn it on, it freezes and you have to reset it. It's a weird and annoying problem.
- no accessories! I had one choice for an armband to use for running.
- do you really need video on your mp3 player? Especially little crappy videos?
- the voice recording only recored 3-min increments, and you can't upload it to your computer- so forget about bootlegging concerts, or even sharing a lecture with your friends.
I used my friend's nano and had no problem getting songs on it, so it is the player, not me. I wouldn't say this is bad, and I'm glad there's an alternative to ipods, but when you're paying $200 there shouldn't be so many annoyances. - 2006-08-06, 3 of 8 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Excellent
- The shipment of my product was excellent. I am also very happy with the device itself. It has a very large screen witch makes storing pictures and videos more worth while. I love it!
- 2006-08-05, 0 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Tested Sandisk e260 mp3
- I did tons of research before I bought this player. Some of my friends had Ipods-and were disappointed. I looked for battery life, scratch resistant case, ability to replace battery, ease of copying. I tried 5 different players before I settled on the Sandisk. I can assure you, you will not be disappointed. Battery life is incredible. LCD display is crisp. Get the gray silicone case for a few bucks and cut a piece of clear transparency film to cover display. This player now becomes just about indestructable. With a Y cable, you can plug in to your home stereo. You will not be unhappy with this purchase. Incidentially, if you ever have a battery problem, instead of shipping it back to company, replacement batteries are now available and easy to install. You will be very satisfied.
- 2006-07-31, 5 of 5 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Works...kind of
- Sadly, I had to send this back.
The pros: It looks and sounds great.
The cons: No real playlist support, no bookmarking, does not intergrate well (as claimed) with online services, glitchy firmware.
Somewhere down the line maybe they will improve the firmware, but why pay for an item that works part of the time? - 2006-07-20, 2 of 8 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Only buy this if you have no preferences whatsoever
- Let's start with the good stuff: this product is nice looking, it's light, compact, and easy to navigate. Customer service is exceptional considering the state of customer service in this country. The sound is very decent for such a small flash player, although I had a hard time finding a comfortable spot for the earbuds.
Now for the bad: this player froze up after only two weeks of use, and although I was able to fix it within only minutes on the phone with customer service, it didn't fix the problem completely. I had to re-format the player, erasing everything I had put on it in two weeks, but the drive space was still showing as filled, which took another call to customer service to figure out.
It is absolutely impossible to put anything in any kind of order on this player. With music that's not really a big deal, but when you're trying to download an audio book with 150 different tracks, it's a little important to be able to download track 1, 2, 3, 4 etc...Because, well, the book progresses that way. I can't really follow the story if I listen to track 23 then track 14 then track 142...It's a little confusing. And, it's also a little bit of a pain to have to scroll through 150 songs looking for track 2, then 3 etc.
The software they provide, rhapsody, is garbage. I must have reorganized about 1,000 tracks on my computer, redoing the ID3 tags for music and audio books, so that when I downloaded them it would all be under the same title, genre, whatever. Well, after spending hours and hours redoing all my audio files so I could download them in a relatively organized manner I thought it would be nice to put them on my mp3 player, but as soon as I dropped them into the player through rhapsody, it reverted all my files back to the original id3 tag (which customer service was baffled by).
Playlists are also quite a problem on this. You can't simply create a playlist while on the computer, you have to go to every individual song you want on the playlist to select it, then find the next song, select it, and so on. It was too much of a hassle.
In short, do your research, and make sure that you are getting the right type of player for your needs. If you plan on listening to anything in order, don't buy this player. What I have found is that it pays to do your research, and it is often worth it to pay the extra money for "nicer" products. - 2006-07-19, 14 of 20 people found this review helpful, Rated:
