Sandisk 1GB Sansa Shaker Red MP3 Player (SDMX9N-1024R-A18, Retail Package!)
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The Sansa Shaker features many ways to listen to and share songs. It has a built-in speaker to enjoy music without ear buds, to play your favorite music, and listen with your friends and family. Plus it comes with two headphone jacks. You also have the ability to play and share SD cards loaded with your favorite songs.Changing songs on the Sansa Shaker is a snap - or rather, a "shake". You can impress your friends by shaking the device to jump to the next song, or use the colorful controller bands for forward and backward changing as well to manipulate volume.
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1069 in Consumer Electronics
- Brand: SanDisk
- Model: SDMX9N-1024R-A18
- Platform: Windows
- Format: CD
A good MP3 player for kids
I purchased the Red 1 GB Sansa Shaker for my 4 year old son. Overall, I would recommend this product. The positives far outweigh any negatives.
The good:
Price is great, I got mine for $20.
The set up was so easy. There was none in my case. They included a disk but I didn't need it. I just plugged it in to my laptop and dragged and dropped songs.
I like that it has TWO headphone jacks, so two people can listen at once.
I like that it also can play without headphones through a speaker on top.
I like the simple controls, they were easy to figure out- even for my 4 year old.
The Bad:
The light on the power button is very annoying the way it blinks, and I assume having it do that while the unit is on wastes the battery unnecessarily.
It came with headsets, but these are not good for kids- the ear buds tend to fall out of ears.
There is no display of what song is playing and no ability to select a certain song, so you just have to scan though each song to find a particular song which if you have a 1 gb, and 250 songs, will take forever.
The "shake to change to a random song" feature is a cute idea, but you REALLY have to shake hard (while pressing the power button). My son can't seem to get it most times, and he ends up shutting off the unit. I worry that he may fling it across the room trying to do this and bust the player. But when you do this right, it does switch to a random song.
Designed by Duracell
Runs on a single AAA battery - advertised lifetime 10 hours, I don't have enough patience to test that, but whatever the lifetime is, I'm sure it would be longer if it did not continuously flash the BRIGHT blue led.
It's cool, it's amazingly small (would it have hurt them to make it run on a AA? they cost the same, but AAs have way more lifetime), and like the Sansa Clip we have, it just works. The single speaker is about an inch across, and as you should expect, the sound quality is not much, but it's not bad for what it is. Ours was fun for the kids right out of the box, with preloaded kids songs and a single AAA included - and loading additional music couldn't have been any easier after the USB port was exposed, it's normally covered.
One concern we have for our younger boy is if he puts the speaker up to his ear, it gets pretty loud like that, much louder than an earbud does... if your kids have good sense (meaning, if they're like 30 years old or more) then you don't have to worry about this, but it is something to keep in mind.
Great little MP3 player - a real hit with the kids!
We own a 1GB Sansa Shaker and love it. A few advantages it has over an iPod Shuffle are the external speaker, the easy controls, and the kids love being able to change songs (and hear fun sound effects) by shaking the player. The 1GB model holds around 250 songs and the SD cards make it easy to swap tunes with someone else. At the current $15 sale price it's a great deal! Great gift for kids, they will love it! I recommend using a rechargable AAA battery (not included).
