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For your consideration... Kit of the Year Apple's iPod line remains the best-selling series of music players, and while the revamped, thinned down Touch appeals - thanks to its sheer good looks and versatility - it was a couple of other players the scored the best marks this year.…

SanDisk Sansa Fuze. We just like the idea of a small Flash-based MP3 player that sounds great and comes with the option to add a shedload of extra memory - using Micro SDHC cards - yet doesn't make us go poking about deep into the player's menu structure to find the content it holds. Add to that the Fuze's compact size, good price and decent sound quality, and you're on to a winner. [News Source]

RadioShack launched their Black Friday today on their online shop. One of the deal highlights on this wonderful Thanksgiving Day is on a 1TB eSATA external drive selling for $119.99. Other deals on RadioShack include: SanDisk 4GB Sansa Fuze (Pink) for $49.99 ... [News Source]

SanDisk releases a major firmware update for two of its Sansa MP3 players, the Clip and the Fuze. Enhancements include support for Ogg Vorbis and FLAC audio files. [News Source]

While the lines wrap around Best Buy, extending into the oceans and back around Best Buy again, a lone electronics store will sit in the dark of night with little fanfare but definitely a few good deals including the SanDisk 8GB Sansa Fuze for $69.99. [News Source]

Playing music is just one of the features of personal music players like Apple iPods and Sandisk Sansa Fuze. On the surface, it is hard to tell what's new about the 2nd generation iPod Touch. [News Source]

Filed under: Portable Audio SanDisk just released a firmware update for the Sansa Fuze -- pretty minor, except it adds in support for FLAC and Ogg, which should make fans of jam bands and lossless music encoding extremely happy. Nothing much else of note here apart from some UI tweaks and big fixes, but Fuze owners will be appreciative, we're sure. [Via DAPreview ] Read  |  ... [News Source]