Saturday, August 16, 2008

Creative Zen


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.

Product Details

  • Brand: Creative Labs
  • Model: 70PF216000111
  • Dimensions: 1.50" h x 6.30" w x 6.30" l, 2.00 pounds
  • Display size: 2.5

Features

  • Product Type - MP3 Player
  • Connectivity - USB 2.0
  • Memory - 8 GB
  • -- Voice recorder
  • -- Clock and alarm function

Bring your media with you wherever you roam with the Creative Zen 8GB player. Watch 32 hours of videos, enjoy up to 2,000 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 or rented 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

Customer Reviews

Amazing!!5

This is so much better than any ipod. The price is so much lower and the features so much better. My favorites are the microphone and the fm radio. With the microphone I can record old music from way back before CDs and get a great sounding mp3 out of it. I will never buy another brand.

Zen-great features, fantastic price! 5

I purchased my Zen about a month ago and have been able to use it for movies and music. The sound quality, even with plain factory earphones, is awesome and the picture for movies is great considering it's a 2.5" screen. I was able to put 6 full length movies and about 200 songs on it for a business trip and there was still almost 2GB left. Amazon definitely has the best price on this product, and the best customer service. This is a fun little gadget and perfect for summer trips!

A little ZEN gem!5

I received my 8GB Zen Media Player about an hour ago. I immediately connected it to my computer and got on the Internet. I did N-O-T use the CD provided. My one-year-old Dell PC runs Vista. I went into my OverDrive program and synced an audiobook I have there. I then went into my Amazon Unbox program and synced a few videos from there. Finally, I went into my Windows Media Player 11 and synced over some music and old-time radio plays. When I went into the Zen, I found all of them. I also found some free audiobook excerpts from Audible and some free music. Now, I will be able to manage the ZEN's contents thru the Windows Media Player, etc. I plan to use an SD card to store videos in the future. I am glad that the "buttons" on this player are harder to push than the ones on my three-year-old ZEN Micro. Those cause changes if you just breathe on them!

I still have the new ZEN connected to my computer to finish the charging process (it was a little over 50% charged when I received it). I registered this player at the Creative Internet site. I also checked to see if I have the latest firmware. I do. I should have checked the firmware at the beginning, however!

My experiences in a nutshell:
Creative devices: A-
Creative CD software: D-

I am a very happy retiree with a gem of a new toy!

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