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January 2008
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The editors liked
Sharp interface
Radio (with 32 presets and autoscan)
Voice recorder
Large display
Excellent audio and video quality.
Larger display than nano
Good audio quality
SD Card slot
Compatible with unprotected AAC files
Excellent picture and sound quality
Clear screen
Standard USB connection
$130 is a great price for what you get
SD Slot makes the storage expandable
Support for many
Many file formats
Great sound and video quality
Easy to use software
Capacity
Screen
Compact design
Comes in 16GB capacity
Large
Sharp screen
Lots of extra features
Including SD-card slot
Stellar audio
Video quality
Excellent battery life
The Creative Zen sounds fantastic and features a brilliant color screen capable of displaying photos and video. The player offers a smorgasbord of desirable extras such as an SD card expansion slot
An FM radio
A voice recorder
And a user-definable E...
Featureheavy
SD card slot for instant memory upgrades
The editors didn't like
Susceptible to fingerprints and blotches
Short USB cord.
Long startup time
Confusing navigation
Display is dimmer than new nano’s
Static-filled radio reception
Navigation buttons are fiddly
No track search capability
Slow start-up time
Unresponsive menus
Interface can be confusing
Hard to learn
No backlit buttons
The screen doesn’t handle deep blacks well in video
Have to reencode all of your video in 320x240 to watch it on the device
GUI lay out
SD card content not fully integrated
Replaces a higher-capacity Creative player
No line-in or FM recording
The Creative Zen only comes in black
And it doesnt come close to matching the max 60GB offered by the player its replacing.
With great sound, a crisp and clear screen, and great video playback, and a good price, the Zen is a serious iPod competitor. Although the interface is not quite as sleek as the iPod, it is user-friendly and quite full-featured. ProsGood designBrillian...
Published: 2008-05-20, Author: Darren , review by: techworld.com
The Creative Zen 8GB lacks the Wi-Fi capabilities of the iPod touch, but has plenty else going for it and is a great choice for gadgeteers and audiophiles alike. A worthy award-winner. ...
Abstract: Its easy to beat your brains out trying to choose a present for your girlfriends birthday, St. Valentines, you name it. Its even harder to choose a present that she will actually like—you will have to study her preferences. The modern market offer...
Abstract: Faced with stiffer competition from Apple as well as Microsoft, Creative has updated its venerable Zen series. The new Zen (just Zen) uses flash memory and is available in sizes ranging from 2 GB to 32 GB. Its an excellent iPod alternative, although t...
Abstract: Creative did a lot of things right with the ZEN. It kept the screen size of its predecessor but dramatically increased the number of supported colors, updated the patented user interface without messing with what made it successful in the first place,...
Abstract: My son and I have taken long road trips around the country a few times, and we loved heading to the library before leaving to get books on CD. The miles melted away as we listened to mysteries, fantasies, and classics. Last summer, we hadn’t quite f...
Abstract: Overall, the Creative Zen is a good machine. It allows you to have up to 48 GB of memory in your pocket, and is very simple to use. These two elements combine to make this MP3 player a really strong competitor in its field. Of course it’s not perfect...
