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It's super easy to use and navigate, I love the radio feature, and I use it to take voice notes all the time. It's been one of the best cheap little 1 gig MP3 players I've ever used. The only issue I have is that I never could figure out how to make playlists with it.
Long story short: I love this little MP3 player but I wish I could upgrade the memory like I should be able to. I did quite a bit of research when I couldn't get mine to accept a 2 and 4 gig microSD card and I found it to be a pretty common problem. My only concern is that the expandable memory port seems to be only for show. 2 gigs is nice and all, but in this day and age, a little more would be nicer especially if the expansion is advertised (and was a primary selling point for me). It looks like plenty has been said about this charming little MP3 player. The price is about as low as it gets, sound is good, the memory is fine and the controls are pretty intuitive. I found that no patches or even reasons why it would not work can be found on the internet and that it isn't covered under the warranty.
I bought the Belkin Charging Kit for SanDisk Sansa c200, e200, View, Connect and Fuze and now it charges faster and more thoroughly.2. I may buy a second one for a backup. The Sansa C250 is one of the best supported devices. Recently the battery started not to hold a charge for very long. It also gave me OGG and FLAC playback support, the ability to use > 2GB MicroSD cards in my Sansa C250 V1 (the Sansa firmware supports only < 2GB), and a collection of games I can play while listening to music.After these upgrades, I found myself using my C250 even more.
I used it lightly for playing MP3s but more heavily as an FM radio to listen to NPR on long bus rides. The USB cable that comes with the c250 doesn't do a great job charging. I "upgraded" the firmware to RockBox (see [.].). I ended up buying a second battery, HQRP Replacement Battery for Sandisk Sansa C200 C240 C250 MP3 Player plus HQRP Universal Screen Protector, and a new pair of ear buds: Sennheiser CX300-B Earbuds (Black).All-in-all, I probably spent about $40 and have turned my aging Sansa c250 in a great device that's getting more use than ever. I bought my Sansa c250 a couple years ago.
A little searching on the web yielded two important results:1. The battery management in RockBox helped revive my aging battery.
She has loved it and taken very good care of it, but now it will not hold more than about a half-hour's charge. Also, the earbuds that came with the player were awful. We bought this player for our daughter (in pink) a year ago. It's very frustrating since the player is very good for her otherwise, but having to plug it in to charge it constantly is really too much trouble.
Finally broke down and brought the 5th generation IPod. I guess its the luck of the draw after reading some of the reviews which we read and brought based on the reviews. U could be out some money after realizing its not all that straight foward. Had two both quit after a yr. Bought for our teenager and he took very good care of it, used it alot and was happy with the quality initially but became frustrated after about a year it would start to freeze up then it quit. So far so good, you can now use Napster with IPod but read Napsters policy on how to d/l on to IPod.
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