The Snowfox is an innovative little player in that it has no internal memory but sports an SD/MMC card slot on the side for you to install your own. With prices falling and capacities rising on the memory card front, picking up a player with a compatible card slot is a great way to up capacity and in the case of the Snowfox, save money. At just £19 for the player, and currently around £10 for a 1GB SD card, you can still pick up a decent mini player for under £30.
Of course you could also carry more than one SD card around with different collections on each one, making it an interesting alternative take on the budget market. As expected there's not a lot to the player once you've copied some tracks across via drag and drop, but frustratingly the small display is particularly poor, leaving you constantly squinting to make out track information.
You'll find simple controls for volume, track skipping and play/pause, but the only extra features here are a rudimentary graphics equalizer with a handful of presets. It's also a fairly bulky device that certainly wouldn't win any awards but if the card slot functionality and low price appeals it'd certainly do for casual use.
The good: Card slot operation lets you choose your own capacity, cheap
The bad: Very poor display, quite bulky, audio quality not great
The ugly truth: The SnowFox has an obvious advantage of media card adaptability at this price point, but unfortunately falls down in almost every other area.
Overview:
Price: £19 (approx £10 for a 1GB SC card)
More info: Advanced MP3 Players
Capacity: N/A
File support: MP3, WMA, WAV
Size: 63x50x15mm
Battery: 10 hours approx (1xAAA)
Weight: 50g
