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 | Sandisk Sansa e280 8GB MP3 Player (SDMX4-8192R ) | |
 | "Meets Expectations" | 2008-07-29 |
| We have bought four of the E200 series players (two of the 2GB, one 4GB and now the 8GB), and they are superb. The sonic quality is fantastic. You will want to upgrade the headphones, but that is true of anything you buy where the headphones are tossed in for free. The E280 has the greatest capacity, at 8GB, which is big enough to store 2,000 songs. That is more than enough for me, and with the expansion slot you can add up to another 2GB. Micro SD cards are cheap, so that is definitely something I will consider when and if the time comes. As to the player...it has a sturdy build, even though it is of a diminutive size. One thing you will want to do is purchase a case and screen protector, to prevent scratches to the front (especially the screen). Well worth the cost, and there are plenty of them out ther. In addition to playing music (which is why I bought it), it has an FM radio, and can store photos and play videos. Operating the Sansa is pretty much intuitive. My player is refurbished (which just means that Sansa opened the packaging, updated the firmware, checked everything out and stuck a sticker on the back...it is brand new, but comes in a plain box w/o the CD manual or lanyard). The menus are well laid out, and everything is controlled by the four buttons around a circle in the middle, which is used to toggle through the menu selections, and to also control the volume once the music or FM radio is playing. There is not a lot more I can say about it that you can't learn about yourself by reading the other reviews. One thing I will mention is that the customer support could be better. I called Sandisk and immediately reached an operator who tried to walk me through the issue that I called about. The issue was that after I copied and pasted albums to the Sandisk after ripping the albums to the My Music folder, the album art wasn't brought over. There was a simple solution (first set the USB mode to MTC), but he made it seem complicated, since his solution was to edit every song of every album in Windows Media Player and add the album art. I suppose I could have figured this out on my own before calling, but I expected that the techies at Sandisk should know more about the product than I do. My recommendation is to buy one and enjoy the music. | ||
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