SanDisk Sansa Clip+ 2 GB MP3 Player (Black)  |  | Brand: SanDisk
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Rating:  185 reviews
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Dimensions (in): 2.2 x 1.4 x 0.6
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MPN: SDMX18R-002GK-A57
Model: SDMX18R-002GK-A57
UPC: 619659059934
EAN: 0619659059934
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| Features:
 | Store up to 500 songs | | | Memory card slot for pre-loaded cards | | | Digital FM tuner with 40 presets | | | Rechargeable battery lasts up to 15 hours | | | Built-in clip for easy carrying |
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Product Description
SanDisk Sansa Clip+ 2GB MP3 Player (Black)
The Sansa Clip+ MP3 player gives you more to enjoy. Enjoy up to 500 songs with an 2GB player, FM radio, long-life battery and voice recorder. PLUS now even more! Expand your enjoyment when you add in preloaded content cards into the new memory card slot, including slotRadio and slotMusic cards. Or, save your own music, podcasts, and audio books onto a microSD/microSDHC memory card to expand your play. It's brought to you by SanDisk with awesome sound to enjoy your music. Just clip it on and enjoy more music with an incredible 15 hours battery-fueled fun. See what you're listening to with the bright, easy-to-read screen and intuitively searchable menus. Color your world in red, blue or sleek black undertones.
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 WAAAAAAY better than the shuffle, iPods inhale profusely in comparision October 25, 2009
Robert E. Mcalister (Jacksonville, FL, USA)
160 out of 173 found this review helpful
This is the perfect mp3 player. The fact that you can expand the memory to 18+ GB with an inexpensive microSD card??? holy cow. I used my wife's iPod shuffle before this, and there is no comparision, really. Except that this is 20-30% cheaper, and 1000% better. This has a built in customizable equalizer, something which the ipod did not. It has a screen similar to many expensive ipods that help you navigate the simple menus, although it does not play video ( I don't watch video when I work out, run, or mow the lawn). Battery life is great, and this isn't much larger than the shuffle. Clips on in the same fashion, weighs just as much, and the sound quality is phenomenal. It is a USB plug and play, so you can just drop and drag files to it. SOOOOO easy. No proprietary garbage software to use, like i-tunes. There is an option to sync playlists and things with Windows Media Player, but I haven't, and won't care to try. I just load all my favorite songs and randomly play the music. And now with Windows 7..hehe...Mac will dwindle back to fan-boy status and they'll have to start making cheaper, less proprietary hardware and software, or they will never survive. I'm Robert, and I'm a PC :)
 Great for Podcasts and Audiobooks November 23, 2009
gfunkusarelius (atlanta, ga)
45 out of 46 found this review helpful
This player is great for all the general reasons you can probably see- it is small, has cheap additional storage via micro SD cards, etc, but one thing I love about it is the bookmarking for podcasts and audiobooks. You can resume where you left off on a track, so you are free to bounce around. All the other MP3 players I have had were terrible for books and podcasts because if i wanted to change to another track (or accidentally bumped the forward or back buttons) I would lose my place and have to scan forever to get back where I was. I felt like a prisoner to a track because I knew if I stopped listening 45 minutes into a book, I would never come back to it.
The only two cons I have on this player are the battery life and the sleep/wake options. This is mainly compared to my Walkman, so it may not be bad for most players of its size.
In terms of battery, my Walkman never really seemed to need to be recharged. I guess the occasional plug-in for transferring music was enough to keep it going. The Clip+ seems to always be almost dead and has gone dead on me a couple of times in workouts because the indicator isn't that good (goes from half to empty). That said, it's a rechargeable battery so it's no big deal, you just have to remember to charge it a bit more.
Regarding sleep/wake- the Walkman would go into sleep mode within seconds of stopping a track and i could leave it for days and when I came back and pressed play, it would start instantly- no logon, no hello, just the track playing right where i left off. The Clip does not turn off when you stop playing. There are options to set it to turn off or sleep automatically after a given duration, but when i have that on, it will sleep or turn off even if music is playing sometimes. If I am missing something, let me know, but that seems ridiculous. So I have to manually turn it off when I am done and when I turn it back on, it takes about 3 to 5 seconds to get back up and running.
These negatives are pretty minor and are well worth the advantages of the resume features in playback. It's a great little player.
Great MP3 Player and FM Radio January 11, 2010
Mary (CA USA)
36 out of 36 found this review helpful
This is my second Sansa Clip. The first is still in perfect cosmetic and working condition. I just wanted a new upgrade. I love the new features that Sansa has added. The ability to go as far as 18GB using the mini SD card! Awesome.
The sound quality is perfect. Reception on the radio is never a problem even when I am in locations with alot of interference.
Durability is great. I throw mine in my purse and it gets tossed around. My son uses it everywhere and is as careless with it as any 9 year old would be.
Adding MP3s is as easy as connecting the USB cable to your computer and dragging the file. All the MP3s are sorted alphabetically. I name my files numerically so that they will play in the order I would like.
Only Downside: Battery life is not perfect. It's what to be expected with electronics including my cell. A fully charged Sansa Clip will last me approx 6 hours throughout my workday. If I charge connecting the USB to the laptop I can't listen while charging. However, if I charge with the AC adaptor I can listen while charging. Also, even with the Sansa Clip turned off the battery will lose it's charge. A little annoying when I think it's fully charged and the battery is already drained. Again, I have these same problems with my cell phones.
I've never used IPODS and can't compare. However, this is a much less expensive music player. I have never thought I was trading quality to save money. This has always been a very good quality player.
 An upgrade? Or downgrade? April 25, 2010
Collin Zeng (Florida)
32 out of 35 found this review helpful
UPDATE -- The below review applies only to functional Clip+ MP3 players. Mine has broke - the Clip+ will skip like a scratched CD player when volume is set to max. Because of this, I am lowering my rating of the Clip+ due to its poor reliability ... 3 weeks and it's broken already?
The RMA process is contorted. I contacted SanDisk and they redirected me to Amazon. Amazon wants the player back in "original condition." What does that mean? It means all packaging is included, and the the item is unopened or "in original condition." The original condition was the Clip+ inside a package with shrink wrap. And the articles on returning are no help ... "Any item that is not in its original condition, is damaged, or is missing parts for reasons not due to our error: up to 50% of item's price." Finally, after much searching, I found out that the seller - BlueProton - charges a restocking fee for returns. Horrible service ... SanDisk just dumps me on Amazon. SanDisk ran away from the problems of my MP3 player instead of fixing it.
Background:
iPod nano 2nd generation user. Great experience with my iPod nano - dropped it so many times - including once in the washer. Once I dropped it from a bike, and the aluminum casing was deformed. The headphone jack was no longer a circle either - I had to pry it open to roughly a circle. Still works like a charm - same sound quality as day 1, the screen has a couple of dead pixels (water damage) but no cracks, and the click wheel works great!
Why I brought the Sansa Clip+ - expectations, etc.
2 GB on my iPod nano was becoming a limitation. I saw the Clip+ and lusted after its microSD card slot. I brought it expecting decent battery life - hey, it's advertised at 15 hours! That isn't what my iPod nano advertised (24 hours) but I figured that should be enough.
Problems with the Clip+
1) Poor user interface. If SanDisk is trying to win over iPod users, the UI isn't intuitive enough. I can tell that SanDisk is trying to mimic the iPod - but why stop halfway - I mean, look at the Clip+ navigation buttons? 4-way D-Pad with a center button? I'm not saying to copy Apple and stick a touch-sensitive wheel on there but ...
For example, the top button on an iPod click wheel allows you to return to the previous menu. The bottom button pauses/starts a song. On the Clip+ and all other Sansa players, this is inversed. And to make that worse, the menu button does NOT bring you back to the previous screen - instead it presents a list of options - such as returning to the previous screen.
And music browsing is horrible. Unlike on the iPod, the Clip+ does not offer playlist browsing as the first option. Album browsing is fine, but I have compilations which show up as different albums. Thus, I have lots of albums to scroll through using the 3 line OLED display.
Folder browsing is also offered, but I don't understand why the Clip+ wants to rename my folders I've created by adding a random string of alphanumeric characters...
e.g. "Our Endless Numbered Days" becomes "AEEEE2012303&Our Endless Numbered Days."
Makes no sense, and this only happens on some of the albums.
2) Battery life. 15 hours of playback claimed by SanDisk. I get nowhere near that. My iPod can play for days without charging. My Clip+? Maybe a day at most. I use the most frugal settings - screen brightness at the lowest setting, backlight set to stay on for 5 seconds (as low as it can go).
And the battery of the Clip+ fades quickly after it voltage output reaches 3.65 V. This translates the last 10 to 15 percent of the Clip+ battery life into about 5 to 10 minutes of playback. Once, I was using it, checked the battery gauge, and it was at 12%. I thought I could get home from walking with that. Nope - it died the next song.
And charging is slow with the Clip+. My iPod can take a 10 minute charge and transform that into several days of playback.
3) A little bit small. Yeah, it is a little small for my big pianist hands. But using it works fine, and I haven't dropped it yet because of its size.
4) Short charging cable. The cable is literally about 3 or 4 inches long. My Clip+ dangles from the computer since my computer's USB ports are placed in the middle of my desktop tower. Although dangling the Clip+ probably won't damage it due to its light weight, buying a longer USB cable wouldn't hurt. Luckily, I had another compatible mini-USB cable.
5) Easily scratchable "Home" button. The body of the Clip+ is made of this fingerprint magnet plastic. The buttons are made of a matte, textured plastic. None of those are easily scratched - even in a pocket full of coins and keys. Only the "Home" button has hairline scratches. Although this is almost a non-issue since it doesn't affect the functionality of the player and cosmetically discreet. However, I wonder why the front of the Clip+ is made of three different materials ...
6) Contorted "sleep" feature. My iPod nano shuts down a little while after the last song stops playing. The Clip+ has to be configured to shut down after a period of time with no activity. This is one gripe.
The other gripe is that the sleep feature never remembers the last setting. I always want my Clip+ to shut down 30 minutes after the last time it registered user activity. That way, it doesn't keep playing the podcast after I have fallen asleep. But no, it doesn't work that way. I have to constantly set the sleep timer to 30 minutes. The feature disables itself each time after your Clip+ shuts down.
7) Limited options during playback of recordings. There is no option to repeat a recording over and over, or to shuffle them, etc. I had to memorize a passage for school, so I recorded myself reciting the Shakespearean passage and planned on listening to it until I fell asleep. Nope - every 30 seconds or so I had to wake up and select the file I wanted to play. A repeat feature would have been helpful because then the recording would have been looped until I fell asleep or the Clip+ shut itself down. Although putting the recording into the Music folder would solve this problem, it requires the use of a computer.
8) Startup time. Shouldn't startup be instantaneous? Come on now ... my iPod turns on instantly without a boot animation or anything like that. Not a major con - but I'm noting it here for the purposes of this review - to inform.
9) Firmware update resets settings. All user customizations are lost with updating the firmware.
What I like - things I mostly like:
1) Sound quality - I love pumping up the sound with my Clip+ more than my iPod. It sounds clear, even at high volumes, thanks to its superior signal-to-noise ratio (92dB) versus 80 something for my iPod nano.
2) MicroSD input - though each time you remove the card and put it back in the Clip+ refreshes your database before you can start playing music, etc. Even when the Clip+ is off. Takes about a minute on a 8 GB card. It can take up to a 32 GB MicroSDHC card. No announcement about support for MicroSDXC - although who would want to wait that long for the Clip+ to refresh its database with a 2 terabyte card?
3) OLED screen - probably helps with power consumption. Nice and usable even in sunlight - provided that the brightness is dialed up. I don't, and I just use my hand as a shade.
4) Build quality - better than expected. No major creaks - maybe a slight bit when pushing down on the player hard enough - but then it's not a unibody construction like my iPod nano.
5) Smart fast forwarding/rewinding - exceeded my expectations. Almost at natural as using the wheel on the iPod. Press the FF/RW button, and the Clip+ fast forwards the song at a nice clip :). Further in the song the Clip+ starts taking incrementally bigger leaps through the song. Very smart :D.
Although releasing the fast forward/rewind button a slight bit and pushing back down on it will result in the Clip+ skipping to the next song. I have had this happen several times. The solution? Press down harder on the button, although its smaller size makes that a little hard.
6) Nifty clip - I can attach it to my textbook and study. That way, I don't have to dig in my pocket to change the song or put it on a table and worry about pulling it off when I get up. Seems sturdy, although not removable. Doesn't make the Clip+ any less portable.
7) It's small - really small. I love it's petite size. It's about as thick as a pencil and a half, and the front is no wider than a ruler. Easily concealable in my hands.
8) Phenomenal voice recording feature - very useful for recording lectures. Accidentally left it on in my backpack, and it picked up my teacher's voice loud and clear. Take it to band class, and I recorded our rehearsal session. Although recording does seem to eat into battery life - I got about 2 hours of recording time with the battery half full.
9) Better than expected stock earbuds - great fit, and surprisingly decent sound quality! They even had gold-plated contacts! Love them. Better than what you get with an iPod. Extremely thin cable though.
Verdict - upgrade or a downgrade?
For me, it's an upgrade despite its shortcomings in the UI and battery department. I guess I'll just keep topping it off every time I get on the computer, and I'll be waiting for a Rockbox port. Not bad for the price - about 30 dollars. For comparison, I'd probably rate my iPod nano the same - 3 stars - for its lack of expandable memory and relatively poorer sound quality. Lucky my computer can charge the Clip+ even in standby mode - that way my computer doesn't waste 300 watts/hour idling on just for my Clip+ to charge.
Amazingly versatile for such tiny item December 13, 2009
Lyndx (New York, USA)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I bought this to take on a trip to a Central American country. I was very skeptical about its ability to receive FM stations when not in a metropolitan area. I loaded it with some music and some podcasts in case the FM radio feature didn't work. I also wondered about how long the battery would last and how good the fidelity would be. I was very pleasantly surprised in all instances. The FM radio brought in a variety of stations inside large hotels, on a yacht and in fairly remote areas around the country. The battery lasted 12+ hours before needing a recharge and the sound from the somewhat cheesy headphones that come with the unit is adequate. There is a slot for using a separate memory card and a feature called "Slot Radio" which I didn't familiarize myself with. The 2GB was more than adequate for my needs. There are things that can be improved to make it more user friendly such as the instructions which are very incomplete and don't explain all the features and how to use them.
The unit comes with a USB cord to recharge battery from a computer. This requires access to a computer with USB port unless you purchase a separate AC wall charger or DC car charger. The wall charger offered by Sandisk costs at least $16, half as much as the entire unit. I ordered an aftermarket charger on eBay from Bargaincell for $5 including postage but though it was advertised to fit the Clip Plus, it only fit the original Clip model. It actually was a Motorola V3 cell phone charger. Bargaincell refunded my money and I found a charger for a Motorola Razer cell phone made by Trisonic in a local "99 cent" store for $2. This worked perfectly and I don't understand why the Sandisk one is so expensive or why they can't include one in the package for a few dollars more.
Pros: For the price, it is quite impressive.Tiny size makes it extremely portable. Clip allows user to fasten it to collar or pocket which makes it less likely to be lost. FM radio works amazing well. Battery life decent. Sound good especially with better headphones. Headphone could be used on airplane (at least the one I was one) for accessing the plane's entertainment system. Included 2GB memory can be supplemented via slot on side of unit. Screen display clear and has different light settings and unit has a "sleep" mode which will shut it down after a period of time to conserve power.
Cons: Very incomplete and inadequate instructions included and nothing more detailed available online. Sandisk customer service easy to reach by phone but they had no additional information to offer. People with large fingers may find it hard to use the tiny buttons and navigating the menus is a little clumsy. Very small size could make it vulnerable to loss. Only way to recharge unit is from computer, unless you purchase a separate AC wall charger or car charger (see detailed comment above). Headphones that come with unit are cheesy.
Summary: For my needs, it was a great buy, however if I had been unable to find an inexpensive AC charger for it I wouldn't have kept it.
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