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5.0 stars
"Just might be the solution!!!!"
Pros: battery life is obscene, line in, video, mini sd card, FM with recording
Cons: none that i can see. what does it encode as?(mp3 or wav)
Summary: I always try to be the most objective with tech. we all know the archos av500 puts the ipod video to shame, that the nano is sweet, and that most companies just can't topple ipods domination even though no ipods have built in fm radios, line ins, and most have junk battery life. why consumers settle for this is a shame but really, a bigger feature set isn't as big as reliability for most. BUT NOW here comes sandisk who have amazing customer service(broke my titanium flash drive and sent it in. i had a brand new sealed one in my mailbox in a week), they make amazing products, and their software is prettty seemless. so now with this 6gig e270, its got nano's size and about six additional features. did you see the website which says mp3 playback on these things is 94 hours? are you serious!!!!!????? that itself makes it worth the extra 50 bucks. even if they're 75 percent right, that's still 70 hours strong. what i'm looking forward to is the line in(i'm curious if it encodes to mp3 automatically. big difference in a line in that records .wav *useless* and one that records mp3*amazing*. make sure you distinguish) the fm radio that you can record mp3s off of would be amazing. the pictures of it look great and i can't wait for it to come out. that sd card that you can slide right in make it as big as 8 gigs. that's bananas for a flash drive. i will give it the benefit of the doubt and give it a 10 because it seems like its legit. steve jobs will never give the publis a built in fm radio or a line in and will always pull back on battery life to save it for his next gen. stop falling for the products that lack. as a public, we should demand more. let's hope this sensa lives up to its expectations.Updated
...the 2gb mind you but its nice to finally play with what i've been salivating over for so long. first impressions with it in my hand: colors on screen are clean and bright,screen looks solid, the hardware itself looks much better than in pictures (titanium back is straight butter, screen shines like the black nano, not as awkward, the dual color, in person. looks like a black player for the most part). one thing i thought failed to impress me is that that blue lit ring around the wheel you see in all the pictures is actually the wheel which you roll to move the cursor. it works well but when its off, it looks like a cheap piece of white plastic wrapped around the wheel core (which is a button not a touch sensitive pad). i noticed on the b and h site, they sell the skin so that's a plus. rolled through the video demo and it looked clean even though it didnt' cover the whole screen. album art came up. settings indeed had that bass adjust everyone's been talking about. the fm radio was seemless and the mic built in at the top seemed to work too. a record button to the left. the micro sd slot was perfectly placed and everything seemed as mentioned in the reviews...can't wait till the 6gb comes out. the video didn't load in an mpg cause you had to use conversion software but with the usb plug which charged the phone, it came up right in the 'my computer' subfile with a little 'sansa' icon. drop and go. looking forward to gettting it revved up and seeing how it stands. much thicker than the nano but height length seems the same. this is actually a good thing cause the nano dare i say is too thin and flimsy. this is small but feels sturdy and not bulky like those mini 1 gig players like all those samsungs and lower end sandisks. pick this up!!!
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I bought one about a week ago and for the first day it seemed great. but the second time i tried to put music on it everything went downhil. you cant just plug it in and put one new song on. you have to delete every song you have, even if its just one new song. after about a week my product got so messed up i couldnt even keep it connected to the computer, every time i hook it in it starts automatticaly updating itself, puts about 5 copies of each song on, then disconnects and repeats, if you pull it out then the screen goes completley blank and you have to wait for the battery to die. It has also frozen about 5 times and when this happens you have to wait for the extremely long battery to die out until you can listen to music again. all in all complete garbage. also horrible customer support from sansa.
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Have you noticed any of the system noise at low volume or the clicking when using your player?
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i agree that this is a huge leap forward in mp3 player quality (based on Sandisk supplied feature list). the playback hours are based on mp3 and wma file types, so there shouldn't be any discrepancy as long at you have 128kbps mp3 or 64kbps wma.
as far as FM/voice/line in recording, mp3 would be great as long as you can choose quality level. if it is recorded in wav format, i HIGHLY recommend Audiograbber which became freeware with version 1.83. by far the best mp3 conversion program available anywhere. -
I think you read the site wrong. It says it can hold 96 hours of music, if you scroll down it later says 20 hours of battery life. Still sounds like a great mp3 player!
Where to buy
SanDisk Sansa e270 (6GB):
$99.00 - $149.00
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