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I recently bought this Sansa Fuze 4gb (Black) model off of Amazon.com, and I love it! It was only about fifty dollars (although the price keeps going up and down.) You could buy 4 of these for the price of 1 iPod Nano or Classic or Touch or whatever the crap they have out now.
First off, this is an amazing product and Sansa and SanDisk are really good brands.

This device is very easy to use, and anyone can figure it out. If you want to put videos on it, you have to make sure you have the Sansa Media Converter, which you can download from their website, and then its really easy to put anything on the device. I got the black model and it looks so sleek and really cool. One thing for those of you have fingerprint issues...they show up quite well on the black model. If you don't like to see fingerprints (I just use a cloth and wipe it off every day) then I suggest getting a different color. My brother got one in blue and you cannot see any fingerprints.

It seems very well put together, and after a while you get used to the "mechanical" click wheel feel on this thing. I honestly perfer it over the wheel that iPods use...because on this you can tell where you are going. Its fun to use to!!!


I had owned a 2gb Sansa Clip for the longest time, but just recently I ran out of space. I wanted to get something that had more space and something that had a bigger screen and something that could play videos and audio books and had recordable radio and a voice recorder. I was looking around for a while mainly at Zunes and iPods, but they were very expensive and I didn't want to use iTunes, and I didnt really like the layout of the Zunes. One of the biggest reasons that I went with the Sansa Fuze was the expandable memory.
I got an 8gb micro sd card for it, and it works PERFECTLY with it. I love how I can continue to expand my storage. It was also VERY cheap but has all the features and more that an iPod does. iPods are just BARELY including FM Radio on their devices, these things have had it for a while.

It plays videos really nicely on it, and the screen is really nice. I have had no problems with it connecting to my computer or charging or putting anything on it. Its super portable and I can take it anywhere.

The sound quality on this is also amazing. You can create your own custom EQ which I really enjoy.

One thing I haven't been able to figure out is to have the album cover of the music you are listening to appear full screen on the screen (or if this device even has this function.)
This device works seamlesly with Windows Media Player as well. I plug in the device, click on the Sync tab, and I can choose wether I want to drag the songs onto the device or the micro sd card! It shows you the available space left too.

Great device!!!!!

I recommend this to anyone looking for a great mp3 player.

This is everything I ever wanted from an MP3 player plus more. By plus I mean 3 extra (BIG) features that the FUZE has and the Nano doesn't. That would be 1: microSD expansion slot ( I have an 8gb SDHC in mine, a total of 12gb ) 2: an FM Tuner and 3: The ability to record FM radio, That means recording a favorite song from the radio and going back and listening whenever you want YES!!!! . Another thing I like about the FUZE is that it's fully compatible with my Playstation 3 (the Nano isn't) . I pop in a CD and then import it into my Playstation 3 in MP3 format, then copy to my FUZE . The control wheel is easy to use as it actually turns and clicks so you won't over travel like on the Nano's very touch sensitive wheel. One feature that surprised me was the Podcast feature. I thought that feature was just for iPOD's. If there's one thing I don't like it would have to be the ON/OFF switch NOT button. It's a little hard to turn on and off with no nails. Overall, Im VERY satisfied with this neat looking, high quality, easy to use MP3 player and look forward on buying accessories for it with the $100+ that I saved on not buying a Nano.

The Sandisk Sansa Fuze is a quality MP3 player. I've had the 4GB model for about a month. I've got about 1500 songs on it, with about half a gig of space left. I only use it for music -- I don't have any need or desire to see pictures or movies on a less than 2 inch screen. Paired with a pair of Audioengine 5 speakers Audioengine 5 - PC multimedia speakers for iPod - 45 Watt (total) - 2-way - black, it now serves as my primary stereo system. The sound is as good as or better than any component stereo system I've had. It plays for hours -- I think the claim of 24 hour battery life is probably reasonable, although I haven't let it run the battery all the way down before recharging. You can get a wall charger for it for next to nothing -- I got this one:SANDISK SANSA Premium Black Travel Wall A/C Charger for SanDisk Sansa c100 / c200 / e200 Series (although the Fuze is not listed, it does use the same input connection). This charger works great, and it's never taken more than a few minutes to charge the Fuze, much faster than using the computer to charge via USB connection.

The display is plenty large and legible. The controls have a good, solid feel, and navigation is really fairly intuitive once you get used to using the thumb wheel.

Although you can drag and drop music to the Fuze using Windows Explorer, I recommend creating playlists on Windows Media Player 11 and syncing them to the Fuze. The output leveling capability of WMP11 greatly reduces the problem of different volume levels among music files so you can shuffle your music without having to constantly adjust the volume.

I definitely recommend the Sansa Fuze. It's a bargain for its quality.