 "What a Deal!!!!!!!!!" | 2006-11-26 |
| - Reviewed By WoWoW |
| After reading the reviews, I was ready to purchase one, and just happened to find out that from Costco.com that cost $119 for the E260, Thanskgiving special. Can wait until I receive it.... |
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 "SanDisk 260" | 2008-10-06 |
| - Reviewed By User: A25SQT0QSX3741 |
| I am enjoying the usage of my SanDisk. It is great.br /br /Martin |
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 "Nothing but trouble from these" | 2008-10-04 |
| - Reviewed By quickcuda6 |
| Bought 3 of these Sansa players last year for the family. Since then have had nothing but trouble with them. The problem lies in the software package that consistently fails and requires reformatting. Must have reformatted each one about 5-7 times now - each time requiring that all the songs be reloaded. The most recent problem resulted in one of the players (250R) not being able to reformat so now it is useless. Do not buy this product - spend a little more money and get something that actually works consistently. |
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 "nice player ..but some problems" | 2008-10-01 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1M93CWVUKQ1V6 |
| picked up this e260 about yr 1/2 or so ago new. worked fine for quite a while, then the dial turned too sensitive. lost its nice smooth spin. cant turn to where you want to go so easy anymore. also most recent WMP will see the player is there, but will not show the songs on the player, even though they are on it. i installed player and media player again to latest and still don`t see songs. so not a real happy camper with this player. i just picked up a sansa express and that little player has a better sound than the e260 does. used same earbuds side x side. the worst thing with the express is i cant see the screen at all in daylight. the e260 is not real good eather outside in daylight. my advice , unless sansa did some improvements ..? is get a later newer player like the fuze or clip if your after a sansa. |
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| "Great Product.." | 2008-09-30 |
| - Reviewed By User: A32EJKY5KJI0K0 |
The bad:
1- Narrow control keys
2-Searching withing LONG mp3 file (ex: lang. lessons) can't be done so fast, for normal mp3 files its ok.
The Good:
1- Excellent sound quality
2-The rotating scroll make it wasy to use
3-Will not find such product for this price
4-you can add more memory if you need to. ( never seen it any else)
===A recommended Buy=== |
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| "great purchase for hikers" | 2008-09-21 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2UJUN079YWRYQ |
| This is great for hiking I only wish there were a way to clip it to your jacket or pack. It was a great buy for the money. |
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| "Raves" | 2008-09-15 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3VZTS6PH5CAB2 |
| The MP3 player I received works very well and I cannot see how it is any different that a new one. I purchased it for listening to books on tape while working out and it works excellently for this purpose. |
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| "Love it, but...." | 2008-09-14 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3M20W9ZQACULY |
I bought this product (Sansa E260) simply to have a little more memory than my original SanDisk player, which is only a 256MB player - but still in great working order. After a lot of researching, I settled on the E260 - even though it was older than the FUZE, Clip, and other models. The replaceable battery was a big seller for me - as I didn't want to have it die after a year & then have to buy a whole new player.
I love the extra memory, as now I can download radio podcasts (2 - 3 hrs of content) and listen to them at my leisure, without having to discard some music to make space.
The possibility of playlists also interesting me, as I also use the unit for learning songs that my band is playing, so want to group them together for easy access. Also, being a magician, I was looking for a way to group the music for my act in one place and then play it from there. An MP3 player allows for the easy changing of a show, simply by altering the playlist, rather than burning a new CD each time.
Here is where the problem comes in:
The player will not allow me to create playlists (at least, not in the manner that I expected). Sure, it will add the music to the player, but won't keep a folder/file called "Band Music" (for example) that would contain that music in order to access the 5 songs I need, rather than all 200 on the player. As you can see, for a magic show, this would obviously not work.
There are work-arounds, but will be a bit of a hassle if I have to do it on a regular basis.
ALSO - It seems that the player only allows to ways to decide the order of my music - either in "Shuffle Play", or by "Artist". So - even if I play by grouping of Genre, when playing from the "Country" folder - it wants to play all of the Kenny Chesney songs, before moving on to any of the Brad Paisley songs (for example) - again, unless I want to "Shuffle" (which, by the way, resets the order every time you shut the player off - so you have the potential to hear the same 3 songs - in the same order - multiple times in a row - yes, it's already happened). There should be a way to play a random mix of the songs in the "Country" folder - perhaps like in alphabetical order of the title (like my old player did).
So - overall:
Do I like it? Yes - despite my complaining, I do like it quite a bit. The controls are wonderful, after you figure them out.
Is it better than my old 256 MB player? Not even close (except for the memory).
However, I realize that if I weren't set in my ways - I would absolutely love this player (except for the Playlist issue) - so yeah, go ahead and buy one!
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| "Mixed feelings" | 2008-09-09 |
| - Reviewed By exision4u |
Pros: small; good looking, great features; easy loading music/photos/videos, just like an external drive; incomparable battery life.
Con: Whenever I turned it on, it always had to refresh database, which takes up to 7-10 minutes. Very annoying. It is like an old car that needs to be warmed up before driven.
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| "it's refurbished, not new" | 2008-09-01 |
| - Reviewed By wirral5 |
| My own 2-year-old Sansa was accidentally broken, and since I really liked the way it worked, I wanted another. Paying full-price seemed a bit high at this point, so I decided to go with a refurbished for the savings. The one I got works well, just not as good as a new one (or as good as the one I had had). There's a small problem with the volume control changing on its own, which is a continual irritant, but not life-threatening. |
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| "Great unit, great value" | 2008-08-30 |
| - Reviewed By User: ABH8IWO2MEPDF |
I was going to buy an Ipod but saw alternatives including this unit, and decided to give it a try. The unit performs as advertised and with all its additional features is a great value. It's easy to use, loads quickly and performs impeccably.
Other reviewers have commented about the lack of an AC charger or other accessories, but I purchased an AC charger, car charger, silicon (perfectly fitting) case and arm band from among the listed accessories at Amazon for unbelievably low prices.
One issue, though, is that using Windows Media Player with Vista has a couple of glitches. Artwork (album covers) doesn't sync, although Sandisk tech support apparently has a work around. More problematic is that the music library synced to the unit won't display on Windows Media Player, and tech support told me it's a glitch with the Windows Media Player Software. I found by changing a default setting (sync all upon connecting) this can easily be overcome, and gave the fix to tech support to disseminate.
I recommend this unit highly! |
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