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18 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 See Sansa Shaker Demo By AmazingTechProducts.comMar 08, 2008
By AmazingTechProducts.com
"amazingtechproducts.com"
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12 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Great for kids who have difficulty with hand eye coordination, kids in general & adultsNov 13, 2007
By Cindy
I bought the shaker for my nephew who is slow and has difficulty with hand, eye co-ordination. The mp3 player he currently owns he is unable to control the volume and change the songs by himself. He also has difficulty turning the mp3 player on & off that he has now. With the shaker when you turn it on it makes a "clip clop" noise like a horse. When you turn it off it sounds like a drum roll winding down. My 10 year old daughter tested it out & loves it. I am certain he will be able to enjoy himself and use this device on his own. I am now buying this for my 10 year old & my other nephew as well. I have shown it to many family & friends and they're buying them as well. This is great for kids & adults.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
The 512 Mb Shaker Rocks, the 1Gb version is a waste of money.May 24, 2008
By Loeb
"Loeb"
Pros:
We bought the shaker for our 1 year old. She loves it. Almost everything about the unit is awesome. The aesthetics are cool, the volume is good, the controls are simple.
Cons:
The battery/SD cover seems to be a loose fit and could potentially come off too easily. While it has not been a problem for us, our little girl has not taken it off yet, I predict that when she figures that out, it'll be a problem.
IMPORTANT:
If you want to use the random feature, don't bother getting the 1GB version but save your money and buy the 512 Mb version. You won't be able to fill it up AND preserve the random feature. The SD card MUST be formatted as FAT (not FAT32) and it is then limited to around 120 files/songs in the root directory. If you take steps to getting more than 120 songs on there, such as format as FAT32, or creating folders to put additional songs in, then the unit will still operate, but the random feature will stop working and it will instead just go to the next song. I spent a long time discussing this with SanDisk technical support until they admitted this limitation in the product. Don't get me wrong, SanDisk and the Shaker ROCK, but until they solve this bug/limitation, save yor cash and get the cheaper one.
12 of 15 found the following review helpful:
 Nice for Kids, but not perfectJan 07, 2008
By Mark Pontius
"mpontius2"
I got this MP3 player for my 4 year old son. It does what I wanted: It plays lots of different songs that he likes, with the ability for me to get rid of ones that annoy the grown-ups. It does so while minimizing the dangers of using headphones on a toddler (both hearing and stranulation). It is a fairly primitive and limited device, so don't expect it to replace your iPOD.
Pros:
--Small, comfortable to hold, good sound, lots of capacity, easy to setup (only file manager drag and drop is available) through either a card reader or the included USB cable).
--Has support for two headphones (not included). I didn't try this, but with my two boys, this may come in handy for car trips when they're older.
Cons:
--It can get quite loud, and when the speaker is pressed against the ear, this cannot be good for hearing, certainly no better than headphones.
--Hard for a 4 year old to operate. The button is a little difficult to push, and must be held down for a couple seconds to do anything but pause the playing (leaving the device on and consuming batteries of course). Try as I might, I cannot convince him to hold the button long enough while shaking to shuffle tracks, he just says it doesn't work.
--Shuffle (hold button and shake) doesn't actually choose a random track, it just skips a few (1-3?) tracks in the playlist. When my playlist has 1000 items in it, and it comes to the dreaded "Country Music for Kids" section. It takes a dozen shuffles beofore even moving to the next album, not what anyone with a grown-up media player would put up with. PS: the playlist appears to be determined by the order which windows copied the files, not by any sensible order.
--The MP3 decoding is buggy. Occasionally (maybe 1 in 20 tracks) it will play a track vveerryy sslloowwllyy. At first I thought it was due to the sampling rate of the track (it only supports the standard CD rate), but upon skipping ahead and then re-winding, the track is back to playing normal so it is an intermittant bug. This happens even on brand new batteries, so it isn't in the below list.
--It eats batteries fast, and when low acts erratically. Some of the signs of low batteries: will not turn off, shake mechanism no longer works, or shuts off unexpectedly. Two weeks after Christmas, and I've already recharged the battery twice (Duracell NiMH 1xAAA). It doesn't help that my kids put it in pause mode instead of turning it off, but still.
--The end cap isn't perfect. In two weeks, it only fell off once, and that was when I was using it not my son. But it shouldn't fall off at all, or the little brother has access to both a AAA battery and a memory card for chewing on. If it is at all targeted for kids it should have the screw on the battery cover that is on every kids toy these days.
--The included music is 4 kids songs and 4 classical songs, nothing too spectactular, but ok demo music until you can get to a computer to delete them.
--The CD included is a waste, PDF version of the 8 page user manual.
Conclusion: Buy it for yourself to listen to when you don't want to wear headphones (car, desk, bed, etc), put only your most favorite playlist on it, and lock your kids in another room when they play their leapfrog toys that play the same 5 songs over and over and over and over again.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Simple MP3 player for kidsDec 03, 2007
By Hector Rodriguez
Purchased this for a 9 year old and it is just great for the price. Picked it up for $30 delivered with 1GB of memory. Would highly recommend for someone looking for simple MP3 player. No screen, but well worth it for kids requesting MP3 player.
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