Sansa View

[crackmonkey421]

Anyone have a chance to get your hands on the Sansa View?  I just broke the screen on my e200,  so I was thinking about getting the next gen sansa to replace it.  Anyone know anything about these?  Are they similar in hardware to 2nd gen nano's?

It's scary to get one and start development by myself....  there doesn't seem to be much interest here in the sansa connect and it's been out for a while.  I might just stick with the e200 series instead.

[saratoga]

Theres some info for one or both players floating around around the web, but no one here has taken an interest in either.

[gigman]

I have info on them.. the huge thing that may turn you off of them is the battery is non-replacable. YOU CAN NOT CHANGE IT WITHOUT BREAKING YOUR PLAYER!

besides that it is a nice unit, screen is great and even though you can not change the battery it last about 32hrs audio and 6.5 video.

[GodEater]

I have info on them.. the huge thing that may turn you off of them is the battery is non-replacable. YOU CAN NOT CHANGE IT WITHOUT BREAKING YOUR PLAYER!

Could you provide a link to your source on this please ?

[ziesemer]

I can confirm that the Sansa View does NOT have a user-replaceable battery, supported by SanDisk, as with the e200.  See page 5 (7 in Acrobat) in the new user guide Sandisk just put up:  http://www.sandisk.com/sansa/assets/English/products/View/View_userguide_en.pdf

I'm not so sure aout the "can not change it without breaking your player" part, however.

As with the iPod and other players, hopefully it will still be possible, even if not officially.

See also:  http://forums.sandisk.com/sansa/board/message?board.id=view&thread.id=63

[GodEater]

I'm not so sure aout the "can not change it without breaking your player" part, however.

That's the bit I'm extremely dubious about too.

[gigman]

sorry for not providing a link as I am not sure what site it was, I just googled for info a while back and on a thread one person said they contacted Sandisk tech support and they said that you can not replace the battery and sandisk does not have a repair faculty so you have to have it replaced at a third party repaird shop that does views

[Bagder]

As a general rule: don't believe what unknown people say on random web sites. Or at least take the info with large amounts of doubts.

As soon as we get some nice scans/photos of the Sansa View's internals I think we should all be capable of seeing if that statement holds any truth or not.

[scharkalvin]

Interesting that someone actually bought one while Amazon.com shows an expected delivery data of December 1.  Maybe they had some problems with the initial shipment and closed the pipeline for a while.

Seems there IS a hack to get into UMS mode by selecting hold, then pressing the left button until UMS is entered.  

I'd like to see some photos of the View.  How hard is it to open?  If it's like the C100 series forget changing the battery!  Hopefully the back is screwed on.  

If someone starts a porting effort on this one I might buy one and at least help with testing as the port progresses.  I had an E270 but sold it after buying a Gigabeat F40, and I also have an iPod mini.  (the E270 was too small!)  The View looks like it's large enough for fumble fingers.  (I wonder if Sandisk has something like the iPod touch in the works.  A fusion of the sansa connect and the View maybe?)

[LambdaCalculus]

If someone starts a porting effort on this one I might buy one and at least help with testing as the port progresses.

But someone has to buy one, open it up, and start doing some chip and part identification. I'd certainly go in for it, but my budget doesn't really allow it. Plus, I'm still trying to work on the Dell DJ I have now.

It would be interesting to see if SanDisk still uses PP chips, or if the went the same way as Apple did with the newer iPods and used totally new chipsets.

[scharkalvin]

I'm sure there will be photos of the View's inerds posted soon somewhere, right now these players are still scarce as hen's teeth.  It the thing is easy to open (screws, or just pops open with simple tools) then it will be sooner than later.  My surgery skills are not up to par for me to be a trail blazer here (I would probably kill the patent!).  Let someone else with steadier hands to it first!

[MazingerZ]

view's battery may not hold charge brand new on some according to users' review at amazon.com. The battery is only factory replaceable. If I did not have my sansa e280, I would get a Zen 16GB instead of a sansa view