July 6, 2009
Feedback submitted!Unable to submit feedback! The two things I find to be glaring omissions from the Fuze are crossfade and line-in recording. That said, as far as traditional PMPs are concerned, you'd be hard pressed to find something better for your money. A great range of audio codecs backed by one of the nicest chipsets on the market make for a robust player that should please all but the most stringent Apple fanboy. Video playback is kinda gimmicky, but as far as this reviewer is concerned, you carry a PMP for audio first and video second. Plenty of other things help catapult this player up the charts including an FM radio, microSD expansion card slot, 5 band equalizer, podcast and audiobook support, and an easy to use, hardware controlled, interface.That said, everything's not completely rosy. Build quality is what you'd expect out of a low-cost player (had to return my first two due to bad headphone jacks out of the box). The UI is a bit dated and sometimes finicky with regards to the scroll wheel. The controls themselves feel as if they might develop mechanical problems sometime down the line. And the battery is not user replaceable, despite SanDisk's history to the contrary.All in all, you really can't do better for the money.