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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.
Outstanding 2.5inch colour LCD screen, 16.7 million Photo/Video display, FM Radio and Voice recorder, Upgradeable SD slot, USB 2.0 storage device, 25 hours audio playback, Accessories available
Not DivX certified
Creative have put together a delightful digital media player that has become a real joy to use and listen too. The only downfall is that the ZEN is not DivX certified and won’t down scale a video file higher then the screens resolution size. But in...
Abstract: Last month saw the arrival of Apple’s latest iPods. But while the iPod Touch is arguably in a league of its own, we weren’t quite so bowled over by the new iPod Nano — its squat figure divided opinion in the Mobile office and the larger fingered membe...
Abstract: Creatives 4GB Zen has a 2.5in screen and costs less than the equivalent iPod Nano with the same capacity and a smaller 2in screen. It can play audio in WMA, WMA-DRM, MP3, Wav and - for the first time - AAC formats, which is great news for iTunes fa...
Competitive price, Interface is great, DivX support, iTunes AAC support
Its plastic, not aluminium
While the world is obsessing over Apples new iPod touch, lets not forget about all the other cool MP3 players out there. You know, the ones that arent locked down to proprietary file formats and limited to use with only one PC or Mac (ahem).Like thi...
Abstract: Let’s be Zen... that seems to be Creative’s motto, as the manufacturer from Singapore keeps expanding its range. After the Zen Micro, the Zen Vision M or even the Zen V, it is high time the Creative Zen turn its attention to taking some of the...
A decent showing from Creative, but the Creative Zen 4GB suffers from comparison with Apples ultra-desirable iPod nano. Video playback and the SD Card slot are plus points, however. David Price Lowest online price: £N/A ...
Sound quality; design; price; good range of extra features; great screen; good capacity options; SD expansion
Slightly sluggish menus; only available in black; no hard disk option; SD card contents not included in players main menu
The Creative Zen looks great, sounds great and produces great video. Its a full-featured player with plenty of options for customisation. Although the SD card slot is a huge bonus, its contents are not included in the players main menu, limiting its...
