Sansa View 16GB vs Sansa Fuse 8GB ? I currently own an e280 8GB and love it. I want another for the car but with more GB. Which is better? I can't tell if the fuse battery is replacable but the View's isn't. I don't like the way the view doesn't integrate the micro SD chip but with 16 GB I don't think it matters too much. But what about the Fuse? Will the 8GB card integrate with the on-board memory? Boot up time with a card in use? Can I continue to use Windows media player with both? Any real difference with the controls? Will the View take a 8GB SD card? Is 8GB the max for both View and Fuse? I don't use the photo capability much but might. How are the screens? Any help is appreciated! Thanks. Sansa View 16GB vs Sansa Fuse 8GB ? I currently own an e280 8GB and love it. I want another for the car but with more GB. Which is better? I can't tell if the fuse battery is replacable but the... » Read More Sansa View 16GB vs Sansa Fuse 8GB ? I currently own an e280 8GB and love it. I want another for the car but with more GB. Which is better? I can't tell if the fuse battery is replacable but the View's isn't. I don't like the way the view doesn't integrate the micro SD chip but with 16 GB I don't think it matters too much. But what about the Fuse? Will the 8GB card integrate with the on-board memory? Boot up time with a card in use? Can I continue to use Windows media player with both? Any real difference with the controls? Will the View take a 8GB SD card? Is 8GB the max for both View and Fuse? I don't use the photo capability much but might. How are the screens? Any help is appreciated! Thanks. « Show Less
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What do you mean that the View doesn't integrate the micro SD chip? I have a view and love it. The View will take any size micre SD card. I believe the 8 GB is the largest micro SD card you can get? The screen is very good, you can even see it good when it is sunny and can adjust the brightness. Let me know if you need more information.
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YOU ARE CORRECT!!! Your response prompted me to update my firmware and give it a go. I admit I have been lazy and was going on my expierience with a 2GB Sansa e200 that pooped out on me a while back. The new firmware in my e280 View does fully integrate the card although one does have to wait longer for the boot up. I only used a 2GB card in the e280 and don't know if it will take a larger one. At this point I will likely get a Fuse 8GB with the 8GB expansion and just get additional chips to switch out as needed. I still don't like the disposable nature of non-replacable batteries but then, I haven't seen a reasonable alternative that had replacable batteries. THANKS FOR YOUR HELP YOU ARE CORRECT!!! Your response prompted me to update my firmware and give it a go. I admit I have been lazy and was going on my expierience with a 2GB Sansa e200 that pooped out on me a while back. The new firmware in my e280 View does fully integrate the card although one does have to wait longer for the boot up. I only used a 2GB card in the e280 and don't know if it will take a larger one. At this point I will likely get a Fuse 8GB with the 8GB expansion and just get additional chips to switch out as needed. I still don't like the disposable nature of non-replacable batteries but then,... » Read More YOU ARE CORRECT!!! Your response prompted me to update my firmware and give it a go. I admit I have been lazy and was going on my expierience with a 2GB Sansa e200 that pooped out on me a while back. The new firmware in my e280 View does fully integrate the card although one does have to wait longer for the boot up. I only used a 2GB card in the e280 and don't know if it will take a larger one. At this point I will likely get a Fuse 8GB with the 8GB expansion and just get additional chips to switch out as needed. I still don't like the disposable nature of non-replacable batteries but then, I haven't seen a reasonable alternative that had replacable batteries. THANKS FOR YOUR HELP « Show Less
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I have one of the first builds off the line which is the 4gB model. As I want to use it as a portable recording machine I needed more space, so I picked up an 8 gB SDHC card fo $40 Can/US. I originally used a 2 gB thumb drive, but that fills up when recording hours of audio at 44 khz/16 bit. Also, I like the card as its like a mini-hardrive - it doesn't stick out of the side like a thumb drive. Not sure how much the 8gB model is compared to the 4Gb.. but with expandable memory so cheap..
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It more or less increase storage capacity by 2GB. On your computer, the sansa and the microSD show up as separate drives, so you have to drag and drop music onto each separately. However, the sansa merges the microSD so all the music shows up together when your listening.
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Right now I have on one of mine, 13.9GB of total usable space (the other 2.1BG takes up the operating system). I currently have 4.35GB of free space left open. The other part is filled up with the following content: That includes 113 full albums averaging between 6 to 15 songs per album using 4.40GB of space and 59 music videos that is using 5.12GB of the storage space. The music videos are assorted sizes form 3.10MB to 177MB. I am always adding and removing songs and videos depending upon what style of music I'm into at the time. It's all drag and drop when you sync it to the player in your pc so moving things around is easy. I always try to leave at least 1 or more GB of free space open so that the music videos don't get jerky. I own more than one of these and it's really more about having not running out of battery before I can get back to recharge. Music uses a lot less battery, but the videos can wear down the battery pretty fast. These are small and very portable and I use them plugged into the car stereo for road trip music playlists and while waiting around in long lines, etc. at sci-fi conventions where it's not easy to get back to the room to recharge. Probably TMI but I hope this helps you in some way!
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I first bought a Coby -- incompatible with Overdrive. My only experience is with Sansa -- check BestBuy online; there was a good deal on 4 GB last month. It took me over 6 months to discover how to put Overdrive books into the Book section, rather than Music -- so, I am sticking with the Sansa Clip Zip.
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I would have to say that the Sandisk Sansa cable is only for the Sandisk. Just guessing here, but they don't always interchange. Try typing in a search for your iPad 2 16GB and see what comes up. You should be able to find a cable that includes that application. It may come up the same cable, but I would make sure that the description includes your iPad 2 16GB. If nothing else, go to apple.com and type it in and see what comes up. Hope this helps. Let me know if I can help some more. Good luck!
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First, this is not a charger, just a cable that will charge from a USB port, just want to make that distinction. But if the Sansa Fuse is a 2/4/8 GB model with the large data connector on the botton, it should be fine.
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Yes. In the web page read next: With capacities up to 16GB, the Sansa Fuze+ MP3 player can accommodate all your favorite songs, videos, and photos. And thanks to its microSDHC expansion slot, the MP3 player lets you expand its memory by up to 32GB with a SanDisk microSD or microSDHC card
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I just use the memory stick so I don't have to take my player with me or charge it. All the controls work with the stick. If you are worried about the battery life just buy another battery like I did or get a little battery supply like the Anker to recharge it. If I want to play certain songs then I use the Sansa. But I don't see no advantages except the playlist.
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I have had not problem with my card. It should work with the Sansa assuming that you have not formatted it for some system that locks the card, most notably a windows 7 phone. The question that you need to answer is if the Sansa will recognize all 16 gig of the card.
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I really don't know. I'd suggest checking what the specs were for the 2GB Sansa.Sorry.
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No, maximum supported external microSD/microSDHC memory card capacity for the Sansa Clip Zip is 32GB, and it must be formatted as FAT32. See user manual pg 27.
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Yeah, those seem to be the major differences. The non-user-replaceable battery on the new View sucks though...that was one nice feature about the e200 series (as oposed to iPods) and seemed to make complete sense. I have had to use firmware update on my V1 e260 to recover from a crash and it was pretty seamless and I lost no data. V2, I believe, does not support the "recovery mode" firmware update. I have no idea what the parameters of the View are regarding this. Maybe it just never crashes! (not likely...) Other thing is the better stats on the microSD expansion slot...now up to 8 gigs (wow!) and using microSCHC. That's 16 gigs total without a hard-drive. Awesome! I have found, after some initial frustration and confusion with the expansion slot on my e260, that I just never put it in MSC (Mass Storage Class) mode and ALWAYS use it in MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) mode. I found moving files with Windows Explorer pretty glitchy in MSC mode. (Windows iExplorer would freeze up or get very strange-acting) Now, I just pull the microSD card, stick in into card reader on my computer (with the full-SD-size adapter) and add files like it was a pen drive. Perfect for podcasts which you switch in and out frequently and perfect for loading stuff for a trip. You could have a second card for you wife's/gf's music or podcasts as well and just swap it out without a Windows session. It DOES mean a much longer boot-up (really "refresh data" after the initial normal bootup...) but I think it's worth it for the flexibility of adding and deleting files so easily. You can always just remove the microSD and not deal with the "refresh-data" wait if you get sick of it. 8 gb of microSD would be nice though! Also, I'd like to hear some objective feedback regarding the sound quality of normal audio with the View as compared to the e280. Is is MUCH better? The e280 has become so inexpensive I may just go for that and wait out the View for another year or two.
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While I have XP at home, I have 2000 at work. I can confirm that the Sansa definitely works in both locations in MSC mode.
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Oh this is easy. You can run Rockbox on the e280, and I do not believe it has been ported to the View. If you are getting it primarily to listen to music, you will want to learn about Rockbox, and how to run it on the Sansa. Rockbox is a free gift from music lovers to music lovers. It is a bit technical and not for the faint of heart! Be bold, and ROCKBOX the e280!
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I have a Sansa e250 mp3 player. It works, but it was a tight fit. I don't know about the e260. sorry.
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Quick question can I use more than a 2gb card for my Sandisk Sansa e250 2GB MP3 Player?