Creative Zen 2 GB Portable Media Player (Black) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Creative Labs
Category: CE
List Price: $108.53
Buy New: $69.53
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 717
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Display Size: 2.5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 1 x 1 x 1
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 70PF216300111
Model: 70PF216300111
UPC: 054651151055
EAN: 0054651151055
ASIN: B00126SV6G
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Product Type - MP3 Player | | • | Connectivity - USB 2.0 | | • | Memory - 2GB | | • | Songs -- 1,000 WMAs1/ 266hrs (at 64kbps), 500 MP32/ 133hrs (at 128kbps), 500 AAC3/ 133hrs (at 128kbps) | | • | Battery Life -- Up to 30 hrs audio playtime, Up to 5 hrs video playtime |
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Amazon.com Product Description
This credit card-sized Creative Zen has a stunning 2.5-inch color screen and is perfect for music, videos, and photos. Enjoy up to 500 MP3, WMA, or AAC songs; watch up to 70 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. The player also is available in 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB, and 32 GB capacities. 
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. | 
Add even more storage capacity via the SD card slot. |
Credit Card-sized Player Supports 16.7 Million Colors View your album art, videos, and photos on this 2.5-inch razor sharp TFT display. Your favorite photos will burst into life with 16.7 million colors on the fresh new Zen patented user interface. The TFT display works under sunlight and allows everyone to watch your home videos and vacation slideshows from any angle.
Truly a Multimedia Player Zen is the first Creative player to support unprotected AAC format, so you can enjoy all of your favorite CD tracks that you've ripped through iTunes software. Zen also supports iTunes Plus tracks from the iTunes store, in addition to MP3 and WMA music tracks. It also is compatible with music subscription services, such as Napster To Go and Rhapsody. Zen also supports audio books from Audible.com. Download your favorite books to keep everyone entertained on long road trips, or download daily news reports every morning and listen to the news during your morning commute. Watch purchased or rented movies and TV shows from online services like Amazon Unbox. Share home videos. Or load your Tivo To Go recorded movies and TV shows. Plus, share your collections of latest photos in 16.7 million colors. Instantly turn your slideshows into attention-grabbing multimedia extravaganzas by adding your favorite song to the slideshow.
Expandable Memory Need more space? Add additional storage capacity with the built-in SD slot and easily play new music, videos, or photos on your player. With SD cards to go, carry virtually unlimited amounts of your digital library anywhere you go.
FM Radio In between your tunes, use the built-in FM radio to keep yourself up to date with world events, sports scores, or traffic reports. Or tune in to the program airing on the gym's TV while running on the treadmill.
Battery Life Enjoy up to 30 hours of your songs or 5 hours of video on a single charge--over a full day of music. Or 10 episodes of Scrubs!
What's in the Box Creative Zen 2 GB player, earphones, USB 2.0 cable, installation CD, quick start guide  |  |  |  | | A slick user interface makes it a snap to enjoy your media. |
Product Description
This credit card-sized ZEN has a stunning 2.5" TFT color screen with 16.7 million color support that is perfect for viewing album art, videos and photos. Enjoy up to 500 MP3, WMA or AAC songs, watch up to 70 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. With SD cards to go, carry virtually unlimited amounts of your digital library anywhere you go. ZEN is the first Creative player to support unprotected AAC format, so you can enjoy all your favorite CD tracks that you've ripped through iTunes software. ZEN also supports iTunes Plus tracks from the iTunes store, in addition to MP3 and WMA music tracks. It is also compatible with music subscription services such as Napster To Go and Rhapsody. ZEN supports audio books from Audible.com too! In between your tunes, use the built-in FM radio to keep yourself up to date with world events, sports scores or traffic reports. Enjoy up to 30 hours of your songs or 5 hours of video on a single charge. That's over a full day of music! Or 10 episodes of Scrubs! Photo Format - JPEG and (with transcoding - GIF, TIFF, PNG and BMP) Organizer - Syncs with and views Microsoft Outlook Contacts, Calendar & Tasks FM radio with 32 presets Voice recorder Functions as an external hard drive Approximate Unit Dimensions - 3.26 (W) x 2.16 (H) x 0.44 (D) Approximate Unit Weight - 2.1 oz
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
Great mp3 player, except one thing June 26, 2008
This is a great Mp3 player, with expandable memory, folder browsing, no software needs to be installed for copying mp3s or video, great sound quality, customizable equalizer, nice video playback divx, mpeg, radio, and microphone.
I-pod is not even close to it. You stuck on stupid Itunes with IPOD.
and you have to tag all your mp3's, even if you tag them you have bunch of unorganized mp3's floating around.
But with Zen, you don't have to tag any mp3. You can just search between folders and you can see the file names and folders just like your pc or mac. and when you copy your mp3's you can copy back to you PC.
Music sharing with friends is just that easy. you don't need to install softwares, it's works like any flash memory.
But there is only one thing needs to be improved. Folder browsing is only available for SD memory and if you want to search new music or video while listening music, music just stops.
Also on SD mode, you can't create playlist. These are annoying.
if creative can fix that with their new firmware upgrade, it will be perfect.
But it is still better than Ipod, at least now I can upload my new musics without tagging or lunching Itunes or any other mp3 softwares.
Just get 2gb version and buy yourself a 16gb or 32gb SD or SDHC memory and you are all set.
 Worked great for 32 days, then DIED!! June 26, 2008
We purchased this product and were very excited for the first 32 days. It was cared for gently and the just died! It totally stopped working and would not come on nor would it be recognized by the computer! We are 2 days past our return date, so we are very upset and disgusted!!!
 Zen 2 GB June 14, 2008
Creative made a Media player with lots of potential, BUT.
It locks up to easy :o( and it is overly complicated to load media into, and finding the media to play back is a bit hard to start :o(
The play back quality is good with a good volume. You don't have to crank it to the top setting to hear it.
The video looks like it may be good, but none of my AVI's play back on it.
JPG's photos look good on it.
I put and eight gigabyte SD expansion card in it and it holds a few days of music, that's cool. It also has a nice way to index through the listings of music, that's nice...
Over all it's nice, but it could have better software to load, select, and playback media...
Good player but.... No good support June 11, 2008
Well I bought this player because it had really good reviews and it seemed like the best player in it's price range...
In fact I think it is a really good player, the feel is pretty smooth. The texture doesn't feel cheap at all, it doesn't feel light when held in the hand. The buttons, on the other hand do feel kind of wacky (cheap).
The navigation within the player is really easy, like all other PMP's you don't need any instructions and you can start using it right away. As soon as I put some music in the player it populated the albums, artist and all other categories for navigation. The pictures look really good and bright, I didn't try the slide show setting, but too bad you can't see the pictures on your tv (in case you want to show off!!)
I tried putting some MP4 videos (iPod format) and the player didn't recognize them, I'll try to play some AVI's to see how it performs.
THE BAD:
First of all, when I first plugged it into my PC I was expecting a "Charging" or "Initial Charge" message, but unfortunately no message was displayed and the player didn't response to anything I would do. I was trying to turn it on but nothing happened, I almost freaked out.... After some time (30-40 minutes) it went on and then the other issue came up.
Getting my computer to recognize the device was not an easy task, and not only for me (according to some googling). My computer kept saying there was a problem with the device and that it could not be recognized, I installed the software that comes in the CD, but it was worthless. Tried disconnecting and connecting, updating drivers and nothing seemed to work.. I kind of got frustrated (and don't think I'm a computer newbie!), but then I searched the web and found that it would work if you uninstalled all the ZEN apps and then connect the device. Thankfully it did work after I did this, but I think this is a MAJOR disappointment, we shouldn't go through all that nonsense research just to transfer our music into the PMP. Oh, by the way, checking the creative website for support was far more than useless!!!
Overall I consider it a good purchase for it's price range, as the matter of fact after all the trouble I went through I still like it and I'm satisfied with it. I only give it 4 stars for all the trouble on connecting the device, plus bad tech support and no documentation for that issue, which seems pretty common.
Hope it helps,
i love it, and my mom loves it..... June 5, 2008
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i finally broke down and got one for my workouts. i don't know how i ever got through my workouts without it, haha. i bought one for my mom as well, her 2GB player is almost full, haha.
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