Product Description

This affordable, compact, color screen MP3 player has an amazingly easy to use interface. It supports Microsoft's Playsforsure subscription music as well as other subscription stores. Extra features incluse a digital FM tuner with twenty station presets, FM on the fly recording as well as voice recording and photo thumbnail playback. The SanDisk Sansasupports all major audio file formats including Audible audio files.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7898 in Consumer Electronics
• Color: Black
• Brand: SanDisk
• Model: SDMX5-2048-A18
• Released on: 2006-04-15
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 7.00" h x 2.00" w x 9.00" l, 1.00 pounds
• Hard Disk: 2GB

Features

• Sleek, ultra-thin digital audio/image player with 2 GB of flash memory
• Compatible with MP3, WMA, and WMA-DRM10 music files (PlaysForSure)
• FM tuner with record capability and voice recorder
• 1.2-inch color TFT LCD displays album art, photo thumbnails
• Single AAA battery provides up to 15 hours of continuous play

Amazon.com Product Description
Amazon.com Product Description Enjoy skip-free music playback and photo slideshows with the amazingly small and lightweight SanDisk Sansa c150 flash memory digital audio player, which features 2 GB of storage and a 1.2-inch color screen. It offers MP3 and WMA playback and is also compatible with secure PlaysForSure files. It also includes a digital FM tuner (with record function) and a voice recorder (via built-in microphone).

Choose a Sansa c100 series player (c140 or 150) that has the right capacity for your needs.

The Sansa c100 series players mix great design and durability. View larger.

The color LCD screen displays album art from currently playing songs, and can also display photo thumbnails. The digital FM tuner has 20 station presets, and enables you to easily record programming on the fly. It's powered by a single AAA battery, which provides up to 15 hours of continuous play. The 2 GB memory will hold approximately 32 hours of CD-quality MP3 tracks (encoded at 128 kbps) or 64 hours of WMA tracks (at 64 kbps). It connects to PCs via a USB 2.0 connection (cable included) and it's compatible with Windows XP SP1/SP2 systems with Windows Media Player 10 software.

The SanDisk Sansa c150 digital audio player uses PlaysForSure technology. Look for the PlaysForSure logo if you're shopping for a portable music or video device and you want to make sure the digital music and video you purchase will play back on it every time. Match the PlaysForSure logo on a large selection of leading devices and online music stores. If you see the logo, you'll know your digital music will play for sure. Choose from a large number of digital music and video stores, including MTV's Urge, Rhapsody, Yahoo!, MSN Music, MusicMatch, MusicNow, Napster, Wal-Mart Music Downloads, and many more.

What's in the Box
SanDisk Sansa c150, lanyard, headphones, AAA battery, USB cable, QuickStart guide, and installation CD-ROM (with online user guide).

Customer Reviews

Good unit for the price!
I have owned three other Sandisk MP3 players and had no problems with any of them. Some of the issues in other reviews here can be solved by reading the manual.

Simply set to MSC mode and the player acts just like a removeable hard drive when connected via USB. Very simple to transfer or delete songs etc.

The 2Gb is reasonably good capacity... in fact, great capacity considering the price. The FM radio works fine, although a little trickier to navigate than some older sandisk models. Color screen is good, although a little too small to be practicable to view photos on. The song title can also take a little too long to scroll fully.

I had no trouble with sound quality or crackling or clipping at start of song. Sound quality is fine! Battery life also seems good for me. I have even ran some el cheapo batteries with it and had good life up to the stated specs (although this depends on how much you press buttons and have the screen lit up).

Voice recorder is handy, although I find I don't use it too much, your mileage may vary though. As a basic MP3 player and radio, I find it hard to beat given the price tag. I have no issues with size of the unit. Sure its not as thin as an Ipod Nano, but it takes one AAA battery which you can get anywhere. No need to have a power point to recharge.

I think some people expect perfection for a budget price!

Average mp3 player
This is a player that does everything well but not spectacular. Some wma 64kbps songs skip while others don't. Same songs play fine in other players. Thumbnails of photos load very easily thanks to the included software. Amazon claims the screen is TFT. Well, that's news to me. Nowhere does SanDisk make this claim on the packaging or on the install CD. Comparisons to STN and TFT screens on other players lead me to believe that the screen is STN. Or maybe DSTN. No way is it TFT. This player is new and already being discounted heavily. You may want to wait for the right deal or splurge for the higher end Sansa E series which is a much better investment.

Nice Concept - Poor Execution
I like the styling and the sound of this device, but the implementation is seriously flawed. Battery life is abysmal - I took it on a flight to Seoul (12 hours) and chewed through 3 Duracells. One problem may be that the backlight turns on (seemingly at random) at the beginning of some songs, and there doesn't appear to be a way to turn this off. I'm on my second unit and it appears to be no better.

Audible functionality is also limited. It has no bookmark function (although it does remember your last place in a file). And the FF/Rew functionality is terrible - the file moves ~1 second per second of button press for the first 10 seconds, than advances at ~1 minute per second of button press. There's no way to easily back up 10 or so seconds in the event e.g. you miss a word.

And even though this device has been out for a while, Sundisk has no FW updates on their web site, making me wonder whether these problems will be fixed. My advice: look elsewhere until Sundisk takes some action.