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15 out of 15 people found this review helpful
3.5 stars
"What I expected, but suffers from sound quality."
Pros: Functionally pretty good.
Cons: Performance suffers a bit.
Summary: I have been waiting a long time for a player like this: 4 gig flash memory, fm, fm recorder, voice recorder, photo, video and its pretty easy to use right out of the box. The player is extremely easy to use and is simply brilliant with its menus options.All the functions also work great. Easy drag and drop feature, unfortunatley there is no software to create playlists.
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I have had it one day and I have had to reset it 4 times already. Twice the screen went all white, needed a reset. Then, while playing music, the player did not repond to any buttons (this also happened twice), needed a reset.
Also, the sound quality suffers a bit. Not nearly as loud as my Ipod shuffle, and the sound come out sounding flat. Actually, the ipod headphones made an improvement to the sound when they were plugged into the player.I hear the hiss and crackle of static when changing songs, and also a faint but very noticeable background noise when playing music.Although I have tried the built in equalizer, the player does not show you WHAT you are equalizing, just a choice of "Rock" "Disco" "hip Hop" etc.
I've had an iriver, ipod, micro zen and now this.
This one by far is my favorite, but I am trying to overcome the sound quality issue by convincing myself about the other great things. Its also strange that it has crashed 4 times in one day. I am hoping this was just a glitch and won't happen again. I'll keep using and keep updating.Updated
Did a firmware update and it stopped crashing. But now, when the hold button is used and turn back off, it continues to stay in "hold mode." I love this player and I am trying to work through this! Its such an awesome player, just hoping nothing else happens.Updated
Unit continues to crash. Same issues as before. I called Sandisk, the tech told me that this is problem they are aware of and are working on it (and he also said people have called about this; also he did not even know there was a firmware update, I had to tell him about it on the sandisk website.) They called me back 4 days later and said the issues I was having are only specific to my player and I should return it where I bought it(very different from the 1st time I spoke to him.)Unfortunatly, after talking to the Best Buy rep, Best Buy pulled it off their website and no longer sells it. So the only way to get a new one is to send it back to sandisk so they can send me another one, but with the same issues? Fishy about Best Buy and Sucky situation with Sandisk, I have to return it before my 14 days are up for credit. Player was too good to be true. Good luck for those that still have one.
- 6 replies to this review
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Did you have any problems with the song order? Mine organizes them alphabetically instead of in album order. If you did have this problem did you figure out how to fix it? or just didn't care?
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Yup, it's definetly a firmware problem. Same stuff happened with mine. And then I updated.
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it is a great mp3 player better then ipod
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Yeah things like that happen, espicially with newly released players. The player is reletively new and from my previous experiences with the company, I'm confident that one day (in the months to come) Sandisk will fix the 'bugs' with a firmware upgrade, they're quite responsible with the upgrades, unlike some other companies (which I won't name here).
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It's been a week since your last post, any update to report. I ended up returning mine because of the freeze up problem. Did the firmware solve this. I would like to get another one but I'm afraid the kinks haven't been worked out. Best Buy yanked them off of their website. Also I talked to a Best Buy employee who told me they are woirking through final testing before shipping to stores (although I got one off the web)
Thanks
roland p -
what does it do!!! why would they have one so early?!! plaz respond, wat is the update specifically supposed to improve/change?
Thanks alot!!!
Mm01
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