SanDisk Sansa Fuze+ MP3 (blue, 8GB)

Pros: Compact, attractive, lightweight

Cons: Ambiguous, inexact interface; no looping of feature list at "home" level; extreme overshoot when scrolling

Summary: The navigation system is profoundly frustrating and confusing. Even after reading and re-reading the instruction manual, the interface remains ambiguous, inexact, and far from instinctual. The manual may help the user understand how the navigation controls are SUPPOSED to work, but sliding one's finger over the interface doesn't always produce the result one is going for. I miss the definite, unambiguous tactical "click" of the earlier Fuze. Furthermore, time and again there is extreme overshoot, when options zip by way too fast to be selected, causing one to have to slide back the other way again and again to zero in on the target. A product this basic should not be this difficult. A great disappointment.