Review: A multimedia handheld player Sansa Fuze - small smart fellow with great holding time of battery

In today's review will introduce a handheld multimedia players from SanDisk. It is a model Sansa Fuze, which will go into your hands, but still contains a large color screen and excellent control - touch rotating wheel. Despite its small dimensions and weight offer higher endurance to one charge. It not only has its own internal memory, but also the slot for memory cards microSDHC.

Description of player

Fuze Sansa player is available in several color variations, we test it in black. The player is made of plastic, is very light, weight only 30 grams. Its dimensions are 78 x 48 x 8 mm, I likened him to thicker credit card. On the front you will find color screen with a diagonal measurement of 1.9 inches and resolution of 224 x 176 pixels, is focused on the width. In settings you can choose the intensity of the backlight.

The player can communicate with you in the many languages.

Batteries, Power

With a capacity of the battery but you do not have to do any worries, the Sansa player Fuze, according to the manufacturer will offer up to 24 hours of music playback on one charge, or 5 hours of video playback. The manufacturer has true in this, in practice, get around 20 hours. If you going to leave, and plan to listen to music only a few hours a day, you do not need him after this period to charge. The battery is integrated in the device, is not removable.

After unpacking boxes with the player perhaps surprisingly find that it is no includes a power adapter. Charging is carried out only through a supplied USB cable. Given the long holding time on one charge, but for most users is not such a problem again, once every few days with a computer, on the road you can charge with the notebook.

Control Wheel

Using the touch rotating wheel from the manufacturer was a great move, controlling such a player is much more convenient than if there was incorporated just plain joypad. Fine movement with inches on wheel browse menu items, playlists, regulating volume and the like. In addition to the rotation of the wheels can also click, each of the five directions is assigned a function. These features, but of course, vary depending on what the menu is just here.

Up-Right from the kontrol wheel is a small round button Home, after pressing it you jump to main menu, the other presses you turn back. It is actually about such a simple multitasking, during the playing of music, for example, you can browse photos, stored in the player.

Outside kontrol wheel and Home buttons can be found on the last player control, the double-switch on the right side. The direction is up to the on / off players (it is necessary to hold a bit longer), the downward direction is designed to Hold it, for example, if you have a player in the pocket.

Memory

Fuze Sansa player is offered in three versions, which differ in the capacity of internal memory. The basic version has a 2 GB, others have 4 GB and 8 GB version. This storage memory can be extended through microSDHC cards, you get so many gigabytes of music and video in addition.

To connect to a computer or laptop is supplied USB cable, SanDisk Fuze unfortunately uses its own type of connector, not a classical miniUSB. Copying in the internal memory is very fast, in our tests we have measured the speed of transmission to the registration of 3.2 MB / s.

Supplied Headphones

Most low-priced MP3 players just do not have high quality headphones, but this sits perfectly in the ear, fits in it even when running. The quality of their performance surprised me mile, passed well in comparison with the more expensive branded headphones, such as Koss The Plug. They are classic Jack 3.5 mm connector, which is gold plated.

Sorting music

If you have music stored computer, then you are certainly accustomed to the easy sorting into folders, in the case of SanDisk Fuze is completely one, you can upload all the songs in a single directory. Why? As in the selection of songs for the play are taken into account only ID3 tags. Therefore, if for some songs in his music collection you do not have ID3 tags complemented, then the Sansa Fuze is the reason why you should do. The player has no explorer, in which you can browse the contents of memory.

The quality of play

The quality of music playback with the SanDisk Sansa at the top level, the whole spectrum of music is perfectly balanced. Never happened to me, that I heard when playing any intrusive sounds, musical performance is very clean. Sound can be changed with several equalizers, you can clearly define but also your own.

When you turn off the player and turn it on later, re-starts play at precisely the moment in which it was terminated.

If you appeared that the maximum volume is still too low, go to menu Settings / System Preferences / volume, switch to the normal high. And they certainly will be satisfied.

Now look at what features you Sansa player Fuze offers:

Music

The player supports MP3, WMA and secure WMA. During playback, you can press kontrol wheel to switch between different views, for example, can choose to view the picture album or a simple spectral analyzer. During playback are displayed on the display data from the ID3 tag.

Videos

I tried to copy the files to the player in the formats AVI, MPG, WMV and MP4, none of them failed to handle. If you want to use the Sansa Fuze for video playing, you must first confery it in the Sansa Media Converter, which you download on the Internet at http://www.sandisk.com/support/sansa. It has about 86 MB.

In this program you choose the source video, which will then be automatically converted and copied to memory of player. The result will be a special AVI file. Video is played at speeds of up to 20 frames per second.

Photos

This feature allows you to display pictures and photos in JPEG format. You can look at a preview of the individual frames, or each of them show the entire display.

FM Radio

Here you can automatically or manually search for radio stations, where it is added to preferences. Radio broadcasts can be recorded.

Voice

The function is intended for acquisition and management of sound recordings through the integrated microphone. Recordings are stored in WAV format.

Setting

Here you can adjust a number of parameters and preferences for all the above-mentioned functions.

Conclusion

Multimedia pocket player Sansa Fuze is a great device with a simple and intuitive control through rotating touch wheel. You can play your favorite songs, videos and radio stations, view photos, or to use as recorder. Among his greatest strengths include 20 hours holding time on one charge and a very decent sound quality.

SanDisk webpage about Sansa players