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Reviewed by: mambo66
04-02-08
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.
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Reviewed by: bigtreepu
04-09-08
Duration of ownership:
2
Days
Strengths: small,compact, flash drive storage, somewhat integrated expandable SD card, long battery life, awesome screen, easy to navigate, great sound from creative. Also able to use many types of music service
Weaknesses:no FM recording. SD card implementation could/should have been more integrated.
Overall Evaluation: Just to be clear, this player CANNOT do everything the Vision:m could do. No FM recording, no TV out, resolution limited to 320X240, Vision:M could output to TV with 640X480. Just clearing things up, for any vision:m users looking to upgrade. Unlike an IPOD where you're locked into paying $1 per song, this personal media player can do subscription services, as well as the pay per song services. Also more compatibility w/video than IPOD. Be smart, don't be a sheep and buy an IPOD.
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Reviewed by: seeker1321
03-26-08
Duration of ownership:
2
Months
Strengths: Flash memory, small size, amazing screen quality, expandable sd memory, great battery life, fm radio, etc.
Weaknesses:No SD integration with system memory, all videos have to be converted to be played.
Overall Evaluation: Don't get me wrong I think the Zen is a great mp3 player, the problem is I got spoiled by what it replaced, the ZVM. For music only I would choose it as one of the best on the market, but when taking the video into account I feel it is a little lacking, in can only play video at 320 by 240 resolution, so anything a larger size must be converting before it can be played, where as the ZVM would play anything and had Video out. Some would argue that the Zen and the ZVM are completely different classes of mp3 player and I would agree completely except for the fact that Creative forced the issue, by replacing the ZVM with the Zen. Bottom line if you are looking for a great mp3 player that has amazing sound quality a beautiful screen for playing video files ( I usually keep an episode of CSI: Miami on my Zen just to show off the color), like all the extras like FM radio, voice recorder, and want to be able to avoid being locked down by Itunes, then I would highly recommend the Creative Zen.
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Reviewed by: eightyhertz
03-11-08
Duration of ownership:
Strengths: Good audio quality and codec support, SD card expansion slot, FM Tuner and mic
Weaknesses:SD card not integrated with main memory, main memory does not appear as USB storage (No mass storage class (MSC) support)
Overall Evaluation: In my opinion, this is the best value for money player currently on the market. This player has a multitude of features: thin and lightweight, Brilliant high-res display, good audio quality, SD/SDHC card expansion slot, FM Tuner, microphone recording.Using the Sigmatel STMP3700 chipset, audio quality is good and many file formats are supported: MJPEG, Windows Media, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4SP, Divx 4-5, and Xvid. As mentioned by another reviewer, the only small drawbacks are that the SD card is not integrated with main memory. Media files on the card do not appear in the media library. You have to access a separate menu for that. However, the SD card has mass storage class (MSC) support and can be set to appear as a flash drive when plugged to the PC.The main memory also does not appear as USB storage (no (MSC) support).The supplied Creative video converter software might not be the best, I recommend iriverter (iriver converter, google for it) to convert most video to 320x240 mpeg4 avis.
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Reviewed by: anupbhargava
02-25-08
Duration of ownership:
10
Days
Strengths: Very good sound quality, good 16 GB internal built-in storage, can be added by inserting additional sd card
Weaknesses:Wall adapter and protective screen should be part of the package. Otherwise NONE.
Overall Evaluation: I would recommend this over Apple Ipod, which is very expensive. Quality-wise , it matches ipod with less cost. Additionally 16 GB avaialable and additional can be added as sd card.
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