SanDisk Sansa E250 2 GB

Advantages: Weighs 400g
Disadvantages: More features needed

...The Sandisk Sansa e260 is a small, stylish MP3 music player that comes with a crisp color screen for viewing videos and photos. The device can play MP3 and WMA music and common digital video formats, as well as display photographs. The available models (with 2GB, 4GB, or 6GB storage capacity) can be expanded with a removable memory card. You can load music to the player simply by copying MP3 and WMA tracks from your computer, but you have to put photos and videos through a special treatment. Sandisk provides Sansa Media Converter software with the product, allowing you to turn your AVI, MPG, MP4, MOV, and WMV videos into a format that the SanDisk Sansa e-series products can play. The same applies to photographs; you must run your JPEG, GIF, BMP, and TIFF pictures through the Sandisk software before you can load them to the player... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: battery life, reliability, recording features, screen......etc.
Disadvantages: only one disadvantage - no fm radio

...I have had my sandisk sansa e260 for almost 2 years, and I still love it! It is really easy to use, and has proved to be a solid, reliable player; it has never crashed at all unlike friends i-pods. Battery life if very good, as is the sound quality. It also plays back videos very well- which is helped by the size of the screen. The recording feature, through its inbuilt microphone is very handy.-and is much better than can be found on many other items such as mobile phones. Recordings sound clear. The only thing that the player needs is an Fm radio, which wasnt available on the UK version when i bought it. Overall this player has been one of my best purchases, and when (if) it does eventually break, i will definitely replace it with another Sandisk Sansa.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: sound quality, colour screen, multi play options
Disadvantages: rubbish headphones, poor hardware integration, rubbish software

...i got this as a swap for a guitar and it was mainly for a back-up mp3 player i previously used a creative stone, but this sandisk blew it out of the water.the thing that impressed me most was the user defined 6 band eq an excellent addition and it turned an average player into a stunning player.but throw away the supplied headphones they are utter rubbish.i replaced them with sony MDRE818LP in ear phones well worth it. don't use the supplied software though to load it up it will mess with your system instead put the hold on and hold down rewind before you plug in the usb then you can just drag and drop your music as your p.c will then read it as another drive. i highly recommend this as a good mp3 player and the sound quality is awesome.also you can uprade the memory using Mini SD cards... Read review

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