The more obvious change on the Fuze+ verses the Fuze is the removal of the control wheel carried by ever Sansa player since the e200-series, in favour of a capacitive control surface. Which includes us at 6pm on a Friday night, thanks to Radio 4. The provision of a radio will please those who still listen to such archaic forms of audio delivery. While the appeal of these is fairly limited, it’s definitely a neat concept. The microSD bay also lets you use Sandisk’s slotRadio cards. In fact, that the 16GB version only comes in black whereas the 8GB and 4GB offer a range of colour options might have more bearing on which you’d choose. It’s barely cheaper to buy your own memory separately than to have it built in. At £64.99 for 4GB, £73.99 for 8GB and £89.99 for £16GB it’s not like Sandisk’s pricing is extortionate in the first place. And the provision of a micro-SD card slot makes expanding on the internal storage capacity easy. We should applaud Sandisk for outfitting the Sansa Fuze+ with a micro-usb port. The screen is larger, at 61mm, but the resolution of 240 x 320 pixels isn’t anything to get excited about – even if it will play 30fps video. What’s most disappointing is that on paper the reasons that this player is touted as an upgrade to the Fuze are self-evident – they just don’t work in practice as well as one might think they should.Īt 51mm x 87mm x 10mm the Fuze+ isn’t much different in size to its predecessor, and it fits nicely in the palm of a hand. Sadly, we’re not convinced the Fuze+ deserves its suffix it might be better called the Fuze minus. After the somewhat lacklustre Fuze, we were hoping the Sansa Fuze+ would offer itself as a significant improvement, and more importantly a compelling rival to the new, oh-so-expensive but oh-so-desirable iPod nano. ![]() It’s been a long time since 2006 and the days of the e260, and competition is stiffer than ever. ![]() There was a time when Sandisk’s range of Sansa MP3 players wasn’t just a compelling alternative to Apple’s iPod nano, but was arguably the better choice.
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