Entertainment Review: SanDisk Sansa View media player Review: SanDisk Sansa View media player |
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| Written by Matt Chapman | ||||
| Wednesday, 13 February 2008 | ||||
Page 1 of 2  The Sansa View is a curious device. Looking a little like a mobile phone, its styling might not stop you reaching past it on the shelf to pick up an iPod Nano. But what’s under the hood and what it can show you are worth dallying over before you make the move towards Apple’s little baby.
A quick flick through the simple interface shows that the Sansa View has a few tricks up its sleeves. Naturally it can play music and movies, but radio fans will be pleased to see an FM receiver and business folk trying to push the player through on an expenses form will like the sight of the voice recorder. Those two items even join together to allow you to record radio shows. And while it can handle video on its 2.4-inch screen, it might as well use that facility to let you have a gander at your Jpegs, too. The View handles MP3, WAV, WMA and unprotected AAC audio files; and MPEG4, WMV and H.264 videos. While that list sounds impressive it misses off one of the most popular formats: DivX. OK, so SanDisk provides free conversion software you can download from its website. But this is an extra step we’d rather have skipped as it can take a long time to deal with a large movie-length file on a mid-range PC. The View can be updated using Windows Media Player. Those who abhor Microsoft software can do it manually by using the device as a hard-disk and dropping the files onto it directly.
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