It charges using a USB cord and you dont need to have any drivers installed before you plug it to the PC. Another unique feature is that you can delete a song right on the player (with the iPod you will need to plug it to a PC).
If you don't want to pay the full whack for an iPod nano, this is the player to get. The SanDisk Sansa Fuze 4 GB has a decent battery life, with up to 24 hours of music playback and 5 hours of video. And ultimately, that's why the iPod nano will remain dominant.īut in the end, it comes down to what you can afford. The Fuze's plastic coating doesn't look or feel as good. Sansa® FuzeTM Overview Congratulations on your purchase of a Sansa® Fuze Media player Sansa® Fuze is a high performance portable digital audio/video player with a large bright 1.9 color screen, a digital FM tuner, a built-in MIC. The nano's brush metal exterior, solid feel and sexy interface make it a much nicer product to use. 2 Sansa® FuzeTM Overview 5 This chapter will familiarize you with the features and functionality of your Sansa® FuzeTM player. However, if you were to put it side-by-side with an iPod nano, there's only one you'd choose. You'd have saved £30 over an iPod, and you'd have a great little MP3 player. If you were to buy one – you'd certainly be happy with it. Sounds pretty good so far, doesn't it? But it's not all good news.
It's very similar to the iPod's clickwheel, but instead of touch sensitive scrolling, the Fuze uses a roundabout wheel which literally turns with your thumb. The interface is the same, and thankfully the scroll wheel also remains. And that's not a bad thing in any respect. If you're familiar with other models in the Sansa range, you'll notice that the Fuze is basically just a squashed down version of the Sansa View, which we reviewed back in February.
The Fuze also comes with a MicroSD expansion slot so if you wanted you could expand the memory of the player by a further 1GB. The iPod nano doesn't have either of those features – but some would argue that that doesn't matter too much. If either one has the edge, it's the Fuze, which comes with SanDIsk staple-features like an FM radio tuner and a voice recorder. It's impossible to separate the two products on features. We make that £30 cheaper which is a lot when you're looking relatively at the total cost of these lower-end players.