Creative Zen

Reviewed by: mambo66

Duration of ownership: 6 Months

Strengths: great large display. I know it only does 320x240 but let's face it, you are probably not going to watch it right in front of your eyes 3 inches away. compare to a nano video, it's much easier on the eye and consider that you have to hold it up when you are watching it, it's much easier to hold than other players. Over all, easy on the eye and slim to place in your pockets.

Weaknesses: Unlike most other reviewers, I own this unit now for 6 months. At the 4 months mark the player battery stops charging. I also use this player mostly for video and on several occasions the video managed to crash the software forcing me to reboot by pressing the reset button at the bottom of the player. I purchase the unit right after Christmas so I don't know if it's because it's so new they haven't optimize the hardware yet, since I did do a firmware update right after my first crash. I sent it back to creative to get it fixed but had to pay for shipping and the replaced unit seem to actually respond much faster. I haven't crash the unit since then. I also wish that I didn't have to convert so many clips though, it took a lot of time to but since every other player does anyway, there's no complaining here.

Overall Evaluation: Great valude, good performance, just not the most stable unit however. Creative, work out the bugs please and put a back stand on this unit so I don't have to hold it up trying to watch a movie.