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Epicurus.com - Creative Zen 16 GB Portable Media Player (Black)
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List Price: $269.00
Our Price: $161.51
Your Save: $ 107.49 ( 40% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Creative Labs
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Batteries Included: 1
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Creative Labs
Color: Black
Display Size: 2.5
EAN: 0054651143852
Feature: Enjoy all your media on a device that's about the width of a credit card
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Creative Labs
Manufacturer: Creative Labs
Model: 70PF216100111
Publisher: Creative Labs
Studio: Creative Labs
Variation Description: Black
Warranty: 1 year warranty
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Features
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Enjoy all your media on a device that's about the width of a credit card
Watch 64 hours of videos, enjoy up to 4,000 of your favorite songs or share hundreds of photos with your friends
2.5-inch TFT color display with 320 x 240-pixel resolution and support for up to 16.7 million colors
Clock and alarm function, volume restriction, eight equalizer settings, and a USB hard drive mode, SDHC support
Weighs 2.1 ounces and measures 3.26 x 2.16 x .44 inches (W x H x D)
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Editorial Reviews:
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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.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great little mp3 player
Comment: This is a great little mp3 player. I found it pretty easy to use and load music into. The one issue I have is that it doesn't work with Apple's Mac computer, which is our main computer. Fortunately, we do have a Dell it worked easily with. I just wish the product description had mentioned that ahead of time.
Customer Rating:
Summary: wrong player
Comment: I ordered a refurbished 16gb zen media player. The package was for a 16gb but it contained an 8gb that I only discovered when I found that it was full with only 1/2 the media loaded that I intended. While I was told I could return it for a full refund ,I decided to keep it for a partial refund since it was expandable with sd cards. Unfortunately as I have used it I have discovered that I'm only getting a maximum of 6 to 8 hours of audio play back per charge rather than the 25 to 30 hours as stated in the player specs. In all fairness to Creative Media, I do also have a Vision M & W both of which were purchased new and have met my expectations. I guess I'll put the blame for the poor battery life to the "refurbished" part and mark it down as an expensive lesson learned.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Quite Pleased
Comment: I bought this last week for use in the car and at work, and am glad I did. Instead of burning copies of my CDs and Amazon MP3 downloads, I now load albums and songs onto this in Windows Media Player (it's very easy), and sometimes create playlists in the supplied Zen Media Explorer. The sound quality is very good, be it via the Monster FM Wireless Transmitter I use in the car or via the headphones I use at my desk.
The main negative - no gapless playback, so a live album will have a split second of silence between songs. Also, for those wanting to watch movies or TV shows - I can't imagine using this to watch videos for any length of time. I loaded a 3-minute home movie onto it and it was kinda like watching a moving postage stamp.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great buy.
Comment: Beautiful product, I am highly satisfied with the product and would recommend the buy. The screen is bright and has very good colors in normal light but sometimes is difficult to read the text under sunlight. The 16GB memory gives me plenty of space for my favorite music and the sound quality is superb connected to an audio equipment. It was a nice surprise to discover that it supports SDHC memory cards so now my ZEN has and additional 4GB card. Navigation is easy but sometimes the buttons need extra pressure in order to work.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Cool
Comment: Wow, I bought this to upgrade from my 4 GB iPod nano (2gen) I love it! It works perfectly (so far). Hopefully reading this you know about the promoted features but here are some things I would've loved to know before I bought it.
It has this awesome advanced shuffle feature. You start playing something then simply navigate to any category and you can add it to the list of what to listen too. (like adding a single artist or cd or song) If you have it on shuffle you can listen to any selection of music shuffled together. You can save this list as a playlist as well. This is a feature I use constantly.
Also, I read a lot of complaints about the SD card slot. I find it useful, if only for videos or pictures. I was on vacation and my memory card on my camera was full, I simply put the SD card into my player, imported all the pictures and then cleared it, so I would be free to take more pictures.
This player also has some handy little features that are well integrated. I can change the play mode right from the song menu (it's impossibly annoying on the iPod). The My Shortcut button is also immensely useful, I have it set to go to Date and Time. Navigating through long lists is so much easier than even the brilliant design of the iPod. I have 2010 songs on here and I can find them twice as quick as on the iPod. My last little feature is that you can zoom in on a portion of a picture and set that portion as your wallpaper. (very useful for moving the center of the picture so it isn't covered by the icons on the main menu)
I'm not going to mention the sound quality because even though it is great, it depends heavily on the headphones (I have some Sony's that work well).
The software is also good, fast, effective and very easy to use. One thing I did notice is that it cut off the end of some information, like my artists, songs or album information. It's a little weird but easily fixed. This only happened about five times and is such a minor bug I almost didn't mention it.
I will warn you, it's thicker than it looks in that isometric view they have on the page. Also the placement of the headphone jack is a bit annoying when trying to operate one handed. I will give the designers credit that it was the only place they could've put it without it being even more annoying.
Overall, an excellent mp3 player that I would (and have) highly reccommed to anyone who will listen. It has a very well thought out design and it works perfectly.
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