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- Sleek, stylish 32 GB portable multimedia device
- Expandable MicroSD/SDHC card slot for additional storage
- Supports most audio/video formats, including MP3, protected and unprotected WMA, WAV, MPEG4, WMV, and H.264
- Built-in FM radio comes with 20 digital presets; built-in microphone for voice or radio recording
- Vibrant 2.4-inch 320 x 240 color TFT screen
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Product Description
Sansa® View 32GB MP3 Player
Expand your MP3 experience with the Sansa® View player—a sleek yet simple MP3 player with our most advanced photo and video capabilities, so you can take your favorite memories, movies and shows with you wherever you go.
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Plus, you can add another memory card whenever you like—and just keep growing your entertainment library.
Listen
Keep thousands of songs or hours of audiobook listening at the ready wherever you go. Or tune into FM radio for news and fresh music anytime.
Watch
View your favorite flix, pics and album art on the “big screen in your pocket” featuring a bright and brilliant 320 x 240 2.4-inch full-color screen—and enjoy picture-perfect clarity on JPEG photo files up to 16 megapixels.
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Choose Sansa®, a smarter way to play
Sansa® products are brought to you by SanDisk, the minds behind flash memory. Around the world, wherever people take pictures, listen to music, use cell phones—or do much of anything at all with digital devices—you’ll probably find SanDisk products. Maybe that’s why, after more than 20 years in the business, SanDisk has never stopped innovating.
Product Description
The Sansa View is a sleek yet simple MP3 player with video capabilities, perfect for consumers to enjoy their favorite movies and shows while on the go.
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38 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
SanDisk has a good start at least. This is the review I'd want to see before buying.,
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This review is from: SanDisk Sansa View 32 GB Video MP3 Player (Electronics)
I purchased this device because I wanted to have a large quantity of MP3s on hand, at one time. This is my third MP3 player... my first was 120 GB using a Hard Drive from a laptop. It had the space for everything in my collection, only it couldn't shuffle the entire list without taking 20 hours to load it... I had to create playlists for albums, artists, or any variation I may want to listen to in the future... what a drag! The second was a 2 GB interim device that I used while waiting for tax time to purchase a new device. 2 GB without shuffle is not a place I want to go back to!
This leads me to my decision to purchase the SanDisk Sansa View 32 GB player. It has a solid-state drive, faster access to the information means I can shuffle though larger playlists and skip a song I might not be into at the moment. I can play my entire 32 gigs on random with this device plus the incorporated information from the expansion card (I have an 8 GB). I did not want an iPod, Zune, or any other device that made it hard to move information. The Sansa View allowed me to open it as an MP3 player and drag and drop files right onto it. That is great, some friends had to put each CD into the computer... I already had my music ripped and organized with the Tags the way I wanted them. I do not want to start all over and am glad I did not have to. I upgraded the firmware right away as was suggested in the reviews that I read before I purchased. Didn't have any of the glitchy problems that were of major concern. It's lightweight and sturdy. I also got a clear case to go with it right away to keep the screen from getting scuffed. All in all, I use it constantly, and have even fallen asleep with it on a few times. The cons and the stuff you way want to consider: While I like the device, it does have some interesting quarks that need to be addressed. Most of them are firmware based and can be addressed. I doubt that they will because it looks like SanDisk is moving on to other products and companies rarely go back to address the concerns of it's users. If they do... it would make me a customer for life! When you plug it into your computer the LCD screen comes on with a circle stating it's connected that constantly spins in a circle to let you know it's not frozen. It stays that way the entire time it's on your computer... never sleeps to save the screen... never turns off so it seems unnecessary to tax the screen so much while it's interfaced with the computer. It shows you it's charging the battery while the screen is on. It would be easier if it had a one of the blue navigation lights blink and go solid when the charging is done and when you spun the dial it would wake up the LCD screen. The software is easy to use but has one tiny annoyance. To properly play movies and view pictures you need to use the software to translate it for the correct screen proportions. It will only do this while the device is connected. So again you have to plug your Sansa View into the computer and watch the LCD screen turn and turn while it spends hours translating a movie. I got a new movie that had a "Digital Copy" included. I dropped it onto the Device and it said it would run better if translated. It took several hours to do this... that is common to translating video files and not Sansa's fault. But the Device had to be connected the entire time. I couldn't just run the translation on my computer and then drag it on when it was done. When it's complete I can drag it off the device in case I ever need to format it and will not have to go through this problem... if they simply just allow the software to run independently from the device being plugged in, it would save wear and tear... and I can listen to my music when I'm away from the computer while it's doing all the work. It will allow you to create playlists... just not easily. You have to highlight all the files you want in a play list then right click and select "Create Playlist" You cannot create a playlist by dragging the files you want to a list and saving it from there. It's rather tiresome to hold down the CTRL key while going through a list of several thousands songs. One mistake and you have to start all over. I tried to select all and create a playlist that way... so I could remove what I didn't want and it froze the device. The biggest issue I have is when I turn the device off and then come back and turn it on... it picks up where it left off but it is sluggish and doesn't skip to the next song very well... or might stay on one song for 30 seconds before registering the skip request. If you select the playlist again or the "Play All" option, it responds the way it normally does and you are fine until it's turned off. File navigation is through rotating the dial... on long lists it takes a while.... so you have to ask yourself, how often you want to scroll to a specific song and play it. The more you select specific songs, the longer it's going to take. It uses the Tag information to separate the music by artist and album automatically, so I find that very helpful! One great feature is that when watching a movie, it will allow you to leave a bookmark to pick up where you left off. I am glad they added that feature... but fast forwarding and rewinding is extremely slow. It would be nice if they had variable speed... if the device freezes or if you forget to bookmark by mistake... it will take about 30 seconds to fast forward five minutes of video. You can only have one bookmark per movie so you can't bookmark three areas of the same movie... it just keeps your progress. The addition of a memory card slot is really nice. Two things with that... when you push the card in, it will lock in place. Push on it again and it will eject enough to be removed. There's no safety and I have accidently pushed it without knowing and found the card in an easy position to be lost. It would also be nice if they would allow you to copy the information from the card to the internal memory. Say you are on vacation and fill your camera card. It would be an excellent feature to pop the card in and copy the contents to your device to free up space on your camera. My last few small observations are that it will not let you pick a picture for the background. You can choose a color or have it randomly change it each day. And you do no have any "tools" to use for the internal drive. I cannot defrag the information, nor can I run error checking on the drive. I realize that this is a long review and it also includes my ideas to make the device work better and be more versatile. Of all the reviews that I read before buying it, this is what I wish I would have seen. I might still buy it but I'd have more stuff to ponder and other devices might have come to the forefront on features. It still came down to Cost and Storage Space. I went out on a limb because I trust the SanDisk drives I've been using in my cameras for years. Just seems like they need a tiny bit if work in the software (firmware) department. Luckily, that's something that can change after shipment, where crappy hardware cannot. I dropped two stars because of the constant LCD usage, the limited playlist creation ability, and having to start a playlist when the device has been turned on and off where it would be nice to continue where you left off. **Update - 11/05/2010** One more item: I've had this for a while now, and it's FULL. One drawback is that it can take up to TEN minutes to load! Ten freaking minutes is too long. As I mentioned above, there's no utilities to try and fix the problem. I still use it daily, I just wish it didn't take so long to start up. I turn it on and I'm already at my bus stop before it loads. If I take it in the car... I have to wait until it loads (usually while I'm driving) to make a selection.
28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love the View,
By S.F. DVD watcher (CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: SanDisk Sansa View 32 GB Video MP3 Player (Electronics)
I have a e280 and like that one but I love the View. The e280 has frozen on me several times and often takes a prolonged period of time to access the file I want. I have not had any problems with the View. It turns on quickly. Moves from one section to the next quicly. And your chosen file comes up quickly.
The menu wheel is smoother than the e280. The View has a better screen. I like the distinct on/off switch on the side which also acts as the hold switch. Accessing files including external memory card is very easy. I have no complaints.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Nice little unit, but not so great for Audible users...,
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This review is from: SanDisk Sansa View 32 GB Video MP3 Player (Electronics)
This is a reasonably well-thought out product that stumbles when it comes to use as an Audible player. It does not consistently return you to the right place in the book you were last listening to.
Compounding that deficiency is clumsy navigation: fast forward is momentarily non-responsive, then works at a snail's pace for 10 seconds or so, then speeds up the point of being almost too fast to manage. I am still hopeful that a firmware upgrade can address these issue; the current downloadable one does not. For non-Audible, non-video use, my only reservation is battery life that does not seem to be anywhere near that which was promised. Four stars for MP3-only use, two stars for exclusive use as an Audible device.
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