Creative Zen 4 GB Portable Media Player (Black)

This Electronics CE item from Creative Labs was reviewed on 7-Oct-2008.

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1) Electronics CE Creative Zen 4 GB Portable Media Player (Black) by Creative Labs. This product is nice. The seller sent it out very fast. I´m looking to buy one for my husband.¤

2) Electronics CE Creative Zen 4 GB Portable Media Player (Black) by Creative Labs. This is my second Creative purchase and I should have known better. Bought a Zen mp3 player. After one month it froze up in the middle of a book tape. Finally went dead before it unfroze. Won´t turn on again. Creative Zen´s website and customer support is difficult to navigate. It kept telling me to plug in my player to reset but since it´s dead, this did little good. I finally sent out an email, with fudged "required fields" because the info they need is only available on the unit which they assume is still turning on. This has been a very frustrating experience. The product and support is unreliable.¤

3) Electronics CE Creative Zen 4 GB Portable Media Player (Black) by Creative Labs. There are a few things I am not happy about.

- Radio has no record option (really? like I"m going to bootleg radio in this day & age?)
- No resume for media played from the SD card (I had a Creative nano and it had resume for files dragged to the device, don´t understand how they missed this)
- Screen can be hard to read in the sun, should have included a white theme

But don´t get me wrong, it´s a good device. I use it daily and it is solid. Works great in Ubuntu linux with gnomad2.¤

4) Electronics CE Creative Zen 4 GB Portable Media Player (Black) by Creative Labs. I already have an Ipod, but found that public libraries have free audio books available for online downloads, but only in microsoft format. So, I bought this little beauty and it is easy to work, has great storage, good sound, and turns out to be just what I needed. As a bonus, the car charger I bought for my cell phone works for this too.¤

5) Electronics CE Creative Zen 4 GB Portable Media Player (Black) by Creative Labs. I ordered my first Zen and was super excited to receive it only a couple of days later. I opened it up and loved that it was really lightweight and easy to use. Extremely user-friendly and nice to look at as well. A few hours later, a thin green stripe appeared vertically on the screen and never went away. Something wrong with the pixels or something, I´m not really sure. I sent that player back and got a new one. Again, added all of my music (about 1500 songs) and it worked great for a while. I then turned it off overnight and when I turned it back on it got stuck on the Zen screen for over two minutes. It worked fine after that as long as I didn´t turn it off for more than about 45 minutes. If it was off for that long, it would again take over two minutes to start back up again. The next day, I got the white screen of death. Oh joy. Sent that one back and received a third Zen. Again, loaded all of my music and it took over a minute and a half to turn on every time. I cannot wait that long (call me impatient but an MP3 player should not take that long to turn on) for my music to start playing. I sent that one back and will be purchasing an Apple iPod in the near future.¤

6) Electronics CE Creative Zen 4 GB Portable Media Player (Black) by Creative Labs. This credit card-sized ZEN has a stunning 2.5" color screen and is perfect for music, videos and photos. Enjoy up to 4,000 MP3, WMA or AAC songs, watch up to 60 hours of videos and share hundreds of photos with your friends. Even expand your portable music, video or photo collection by adding additional content through the convenient SD memory slot.¤

7) Electronics CE Creative Zen 4 GB Portable Media Player (Black) by Creative Labs. Bring your media with you wherever you roam with the Creative Zen 4GB player. Watch 16 hours of videos, enjoy up to 1,000 of your favorite songs or share hundreds of photos with your friends. And do it all on a device that´s about the width of a credit card.

A razor sharp 2.5-inch display makes your photos and videos come to life. See the Zen in detail.

Small size. Big features. All in the palm of your hand. View larger.

Add even more storage capacity via the SD card slot. View larger.

Design
The Zen sports a 2.5-inch TFT color display with 320 x 240-pixel resolution and support for up to 16.7 million colors. This razor sharp display is packaged in a device that weighs just 2.1 ounces and measures 3.26 x 2.16 x .44 inches (W x H x D). The internal battery powers the Zen for up to 25 hours of continuous audio playback and up to five hours of continuous video playback. Use the Zen´s SD slot to expand your portable media library with music, photos and videos stored on your SD card. There´s also a handy built-in microphone for capturing notes on the go.

Features
Load up up your favorite songs, as well as your album art, and get going with the Zen. The device supports iTunes Plus tracks from the iTunes store and MP3 and WMA tracks. Subscription and pay-per-download music services are supported, as well. Discover, save, and play millions of songs when subscribing to services such as Yahoo Music Unlimited and Napster To Go. You can even tune into your favorite stations with the Zen´s FM radio. The radio allows you to save up to 34 presets.

The Zen has you covered when it comes to video, too. The device supports MJPEG, WMV9 and--with transcoding--MPEG1 and 2, MPEG4-SP, DivX 4 and 5, and XviD. Enjoy purchased movies and TV shows from online services, such as Amazon Unbox and Walmart.com. Watch home videos. Even load your Tivo To Go movies and TV shows onto your Zen.

Additional features include a clock and alarm function, volume restriction, eight equalizer settings, and a USB hard drive mode, which allows you to drag and drop files directly to and from your Zen. The Zen can also function as a handy organizer, allowing you to synchronize with Microsoft Outlook and display your contacts, calendar, and tasks.

What´s in the Box
Zen player, earphones, USB 2.0 cable, installation CD, and quick start guide.

A slick user interface makes it a snap to enjoy your media.

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