Creative Zen 4 GB Portable Media Player (Black) | 
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| Brand: Creative Labs
Category: CE
List Price: $135.36
Buy New: $84.77
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New (38) Used (7) Refurbished (1) from $73.22
Rating:  204 reviews
Sales Rank: 69
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Display Size: 2.5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 6.4 x 6.3 x 1.5
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 70PF216200111
Model: 70PF216200111
UPC: 054651143821
EAN: 0054651143821
ASIN: B000UV4EU6
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Product Type - MP3 Player | | • | Connectivity - USB 2.0 | | • | Memory - 4GB | | • | Dimensions WxDxH - 3.26" x 2.16" x 0.44" | | • | -- Clock and alarm function |
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Product Description
Decked out in an all-black suit, the Creative ZEN is smaller than your average credit card and sits snugly right in your palm. With an attractive 11.3mm thickness, this sleek player weighs a mere 65g, allowing you to carry it around easily. It's got a 4GB capacity and the ability to support different popular media formats. What's more, you can add as much capacity as you want with its SD memory expansion slot. With its patented ZEN user interface which offers more information to be viewed on the screen, navigating through mass content is simply a breeze Integrated FM radio with 32 preset stations. Get free video and audio podcast channels through your player from ZENcast Record important meetings or voice memos to yourself with the integrated voice recorder Built-in rechargeable battery for up to 25 hours of music or five hours of movies Creative ZEN comes with earphones, USB 2.0 cable, quick start Leaflets and installation CD (includes Creative Media Explorer software and ZENcast Organizer) Size WxHxD - 3.26 x 2.16 x 0.44 Weight - 2.1 oz
Amazon.com Product Description
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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 199 more reviews...
nice device July 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A remarkable device for the price if you are on a budget. The zen is easily recognizable by linux which is very flexible. The os on the device is very simple and accessible no manual needed. The software that is provided helps you to convert your videos so they are compatible with the zen. It even syncs up with Windows media which the zune can not do . Overall it is a good mp3 player.
Mac user+MP3+XNJB=Working Zen July 2, 2008
I bought this unit to cokmplement a Creative Zen Nano Plus 1GB that was a great pocket MP3 player hampered only by limited memory capacity. I figured that it would do OK with the PowerBook, since I saw that CNET listed the Zen as "Mac compatible." To make a long story short, it isn't. I connected it up to a 3GHz Pentium 4 running Windows XP, installed the software, and was rewarded with a system that has a love/hate realtionship with the Zen. (Sometimes it works, sometimes it won't see the Zen player.) Yesterday (7/1/2008) I was at Low End Mac, looking at this and that when I saw an article on the new SanDisk Sansa Clip 4GB player, when the author mentioned a software fix for the Creative Zen. (http://www.wentnet.com/projects/xnjb/) XNJB provides a multiple window interface to view what's already on the Zen player, upload MP3s from your computer, etc. Why is this important to me? I have an old G3 and a newer G4 Mac PowerBook that have very different iTunes MP3 collections, ripped from my music CD collection that I'd like to mix up. In the iPod/iTunes world, you must choose one computer's MP3/AAC library, making it necessary to load other MP3s on a CD/DVD or external HDD. So, I can shuffle between The Who, Louis Armstrong, Dan Tyminski, Barefoot Natives, etc.
As for the Zen package, I don't use the supplied much-too-short USB cord; the one that came with a digital camera does the job. This unit doesn't come with an AC adpater, but I found an adequate Belkin F8Z121 wall charger that also charges iPods. Otherwise, it's a fine unit, though the FM radio tuner in this Zen doesn't log as many stations as the Zen Nano Plus did. I have a 4G 20GB iPod just for music and don't really need video playback, so this works out better than an iPod Nano for now.
 The Creative Zen has HORRIFIC AAC support, and I can only hope it is better for other file types July 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After my numerous attempts to transfer 4GB of my library to this player, I have concluded that this is quite possibly the worst MP3 player I have ever used. It is no wonder that Creative is not only stagnant in popularity but also ceding market share to Sandisk and Microsoft. I understand the fanboy will inevitably tell me that X file type works fine on the Zen and that I brought this horrible experience on myself by using AAC. But if Creative is going to implement AAC support and advertise it, then they sure as hell should make every effort to insure that AAC support is as good as its support for other files.
First, the only way I've found to make album art show on every track is if I only transfer a small group of tracks at a time. If I transfer anymore then, say, 100 tracks, all of the files will be album artless.
Countless times now, I have left Zen Media Explorer alone to transfer files to the player, only to come back a few minutes later finding that either:
1. Zen Media Explorer crashed
2. the Zen decided to go to sleep, where only a reset can get it going again
3. or some random error (0x80048007) halts the entire transfer and I have to start again.
And if I am lucky enough to get a transfer through "without issue," then there's a damn good chance that I'll encounter issues when I start using the player, including:
1. the Zen does not get out of docked mode and I have to reset it
2. some of the tracks were corrupted during transfer and I get garbled music
3. and even once, the interface was corrupted with the letter "a" getting replaced by "" (weird, I know) and all "w's" were half a line below all the other letters. Only a reset and cleanup fixed this.
I should probably note that this smorgasbord of problems is not just an isolated instance. In fact, I am already on my second player that was sent as a replacement, and there has been no difference.
I don't even see why the reset button is a tiny, hard-to-access pinhole seeing how it is pathetically the most used button on my player. It's too bad, I was dying to give this product a second chance because I love the interface, features, and potential for memory expansion. Instead, the great hardware of this product is marred by its horrible software and firmware, and for that, I will never, ever recommend Creative MP3 players to anyone I know. Maybe only people I hate...
 Zen is Great June 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What can I say? This is my first MP3 player and it is really impressive what this thing can do. I have found it to be very intuitive to learn how to operate. I got a FM broadcaster for my car and now I can listen to my whole collection of music wherever I go in the car. The battery has a great life, but it makes a big difference whether you keep the screen active while you are listing to music vs. lock out the buttons and turn off the screen. The player will go a lot longer between charges with the screen turned off. I have about 550 songs and that took up about 2.5GB of the 4GB storage. I like that I can expand the storage with a memory card if I ever need to do that. I don't find the stoarge space to be a limitation due to this reason.
Excellen Music Player June 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great musicplayer and a great alternative to iPod...i wanted something different and something that doesn't play itunes exclusively. Zen performs and has options to play pictures and videos. I am really happy with the purchase.
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