Battery Life Details: Up to 24 hours of audio playback / 5 hours of video playback
Audio System
Sound output mode: Stereo
Cable(s) / Peripheral(s)
Cable(s) included: 1x 30 pin proprietary to USB cable
System Requirements
Peripheral / Interface devices: CD-ROM, USB port Minimum Operating system: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Linux and Mac OS (under MSC mode)
Connections
Connector type: 1x Headphones Mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm, 1 x USB
Microphone
Microphone type: Built-in
Headphones
Headphones type: Binaural Sound
Output mode: Stereo
Connectivity Technology: Wired
** Based on continuous audio playerback at 128Kbps MP3; video playback at 512kbps/Mpeg-4l Photos based on 1.7mb average file size; Battery life and performance may vary depending upon usage and settings; battery is not replaceable.
Doesn’t really answer the question definitively. They said the view had bookmarking, but that was really the resume feature, which is crude & inefective and not really bookmarking…
If it has the same bookmarking type as video (centre press & resume/start) then fine. If not then it’s bad news if it’s competing with the ipod nano (ipod formware 1.2 has bookmarking).
Maybe sansa can produce a definitive feature list.
says “Sandisk’s whole line of MP3 players now supports audiobook bookmarking and can treat non-Audible files as audiobooks.” I believe you before I believe Wired, though.
The article is wrong, not all sansa mp3's have bookmarking. The view does NOT. It has the resume feature, which is NOT bookmarking.
For it to have true bookmarking then the centre button press, certainly in the view, should be replaced with an exit from the audible (or long/voice audio file) to file list, as in video, instead of currently going to eq, which for an voice audio file is irrelevent.
The videos & feature list I've seen so far don't show this.
Th UI is neater than the view. I hope that the next firmware update for the view will replace the UI totally with the one on the fuze. PLEASE!!
Sansafix, you said 'You can choose to resume the content or restart it'.
Is this like for video files with the popup overlay?
Does the centre button exit an audiobook/podcast file as it should, and so bookmarks?
The pop up is similar to video, it prompts you to resue or restart.
Center button cycles thru album art.
If you are listening to a book and then navigate to another content and start it, then come back to the original book you will get the popup. It will remember your place in the Audiobook content. So to set a bookmark just ff/rew / to the content where you wish to place the mark, pause, then select other content.
Just to clarify, the Fuze’s Audiobooks folder acts different then previous players. In previous players only .AA files could be put in the Audiobook (Audible) folder. With the Fuze, any file .AA or otherwise (as long as it’s music) can be placed in the Audiobook folder and show up in the Audiobook section of the Fuze’s user interface. No longer will you have non .AA Audiobooks showing up in the music folder. Simply drag and drop your .wma, .AA or .mp3 Audiobook into the Audiobooks folder and it will show in the Audiobooks folder in the player’s GUI.
Updated again, I guess I should of gotten it right the first time
