SanDisk SDMX2-1024 Sansa e140 1 GB Digital Audio Player with SD Expansion Slot by SanDisk
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Digital camera reviews of SanDisk SDMX2-1024 Sansa e140 1 GB Digital Audio Player with SD Expansion Slot
Digital camera Review: Has worked great for two years +
Summary: 5 Stars
I've had this for over two years now and it has worked great and done everything as promised. I run and cycle with this daily and it has never let me down. I like the simple drag and drop file management which was straight forward to use. The earphones are great too and have only just broken.
Cons: the provided plastic cover is held onto the armband with press studs. This fits poorly and falls off if you try to use it with the armband. Solution- buy the optional $10 silicone case and it stays on fine with the added benefit of allowing you to slide an extra battery doen the side of the case ready. This works well if you use rechargable batteries.
I'm thinking of buying another model in case this onme ever breaks, but after hundreds and hundreds of hours witout problem there seems to be no need.
Digital camera Review: Good, good... Good...
Summary: 4 Stars
It's great, I'm happy with it. Delivery was fast. I didn't realize it was refurb, but that doesn't really matter anyway. Good product.Digital camera Review: SanDisk SDMX2-1024 Sansa e 140 Digital audio player
Summary: 5 Stars
I received this unit in a timely fashion and
it works as advertised. No surprises.
Good basic unit for simple needs.
I love that I can add 2G SD cards.
It is like having tiny CD's with my music.
Digital camera Review: Slick little player
Summary: 4 Stars
Great sound, expandable, relatively cheap.
I wish all players had card slots.
Digital camera Review: Great unit for the price
Summary: 4 Stars
Overall, this is a great product for the price, but there are a few minor issues that I have with it. I mostly use the player to listen to a wide variety of music. I set it to shuffle, and for this particular use, the player works wonderfully and I have no complaints. I have only loaded mp3 files on this player, so I cannot comment on use with any other file type.
Pros:
easy to hook up to a computer and load with music. The player shows up as a drive letter in Windows (or two drive letters if you have a memory card in it). You can store any type of file on it (pictures, documents, etc.) so it can be used as a storage device, but of course it will only play music.
Displays artist, song, album, and progress bar on the main streen (provided that you have entered all this information in the tag)
You can choose to play music by artist, album, year, genre, etc.
I like the earbuds; unlike many, they are designed to stay in your ear, even when running, and they sound as good as earbuds can. This is the first pair of earbuds I've ever found that are comfortable.
Expansion slot allows you to add an SD card for a total of 3 GB of music
Takes only one AAA battery, and has pretty decent battery life
Hard to accidentally turn off - you have to hold the power button for a few seconds to power it off
Cons:
A bit slow - There is a delay when you tell it to move to the next song to when it actually goes to the next song; sometimes you think it didn't register. Also, for me, it takes about 30 seconds to start the player up with a memory card inserted. If anything in memory has changed since last time, it takes even longer. With no memory card inserted, it takes around 10 seconds to start up.
No playlists - you can store up to 30 favorites, and choose to play through those, but that's it. You can use the genre tag to fake it out; i.e. set the songs you want in a playlist to the same genre. However, this would allow a song only to be placed in one playlist. Besides, I don't like to use genre in the tag, since no song can really be classified in to one genre.
No AM radio - not a huge deal; there is an FM radio
I am unable to get the player to continue from where it left off when it was turned off. Sandisk tech support says to pause the player before turning it off, but that does not work for me. I'm still working with tech support on this. This could be a deal breaker if you listen to long tracks (full albums stored as one file, or audiobooks with long chapters)
If you have an album stored as separate tracks, there will be a pause between tracks. For most albums, this is not a problem as there is a pause between the tracks anyway, but for a few albums (Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, e.g.) the album is designed not to have any pauses in it.