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Creative Zen 32 GB Portable Media Player (Black)
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List Price: $299.99
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Features
• Enjoy all of your media on a device that's about the width of a credit card
• Watch 120 hours of videos, enjoy up to 8,000 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
• Weighs 2.1 ounces and measures 3.26 x 2.16 x .44 inches (W x H x D) |
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Creative Zen 32 GB Portable Media Player (Black) description
This credit-card-sized Zen has a stunning 2.5-inch color screen and is perfect for music, videos, and photos. Enjoy up to 8,000 MP3, WMA, or AAC songs; watch up to 120 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 Zen player also is available in 2 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB, and 16 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 to life in 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 the 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 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
Zen player, earphones, USB 2.0 cable, installation CD, quick start guide.  |  |  |  | | A slick user interface makes it a snap to enjoy your media. | |
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Creative Zen 32 GB Portable Media Player (Black) Customer Reviews
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A very pleasing player for my needs (and most people's)
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Well... after a lot of research and time spent, I decided to buy this Creative Zen 32 GB to replace my Zen Micro 6 GB: I needed more space as my music collection was growing larger, and I considered to add some videos in it. Before that, I had been undecided between the iPod Touch and this one, but the fact that iPod Touch is far more expensive, bigger, and it does not sync with Windows Media Player (unless you download a special program, but why bother myself doing that?) made up my mind. Fortunately, it turned out that, after about 3 weeks of usage, I am very pleased with my new Zen 32 GB.
Let's go by parts:
- The player is indeed small; as the ad says, it is the size of a credit card (of course, not the same in thickness).
- It has a nice interface, where all media is neatly organized. I think anybody who uses a computer will find it easy to operate. It has a sidebar where you can browse by initial letter when you want to find a specific album, song or artist in your music library. You can also customize the main menu, and the background (which is limited to 6 options: Velvet Red (default), Marine Blue, Sable Black, Royal Purple, Neon Orange and Forest Green.
- It has a built-in radio and voice recorder. This time, compared to the Zen Micro I have, there are 30 spaces instead of 20 for radio stations, which is convenient, especially when traveling often (station frequencies change by location). You can label each of the presets; you may label them with the name of the corresponding stations.
- It has a equalizer with several presets. It also has a bass boost, which is disabled by default, and Smart Volume to avoid too high and too low volume, also disabled by default.
- The battery: this is one of the aspects I like of the Zen 32 GB. I constantly commute from home to college, and to work in weekends. My Zen Micro lasted just two subway rides, or just one day to make it clear. This one lasts four days without recharging, only playing music with equalizer, Smart Volume and Bass Boost ON, and at a volume of 14. It last three days with the same setting but without putting the switch to "hold", where the screen goes blank to save energy.
- You can let the device select songs for you, according to a specific criteria: Album of the Day (plays a random album), Random Play All, Most Popular, Rarely Heard, Highly Rated, and Yet to be Rated. All of these options are available in the DJ sub-menu in the Music menu.
- Firmware upgrade: I was concerned about this issue, since users of the 8 GB and 16 GB Zen had problems updating the firmware of their devices. I did not have a problem with this one, at least. It takes time to complete the upgrade, though (I think I waited about 3 minutes, but, in the worst case, expect 10 minutes to complete the firmware upgrade).
- A small note: I did not think that Japanese characters would display correctly on the Zen, but when I tried it, they actually do! Then, for those who listen to any songs with Japanese characters in their titles or artist names, you would be pleased to know this. It also displays correctly vowels with tilde and the "A " character, which are commonly used in Spanish.
- There are three languages available: English, French and Spanish.
- It has a Media card slot, which I have not yet used.
- You can use this Zen as a hard drive for data; but I do not know if you can use it in a computer where the Zen software and drivers are not installed.
- The volume can be raised enough for larger speakers, which is convenient. Of course, this consumes more energy; I estimate it lasts about 10 hours in that setting (music playback only... it would be weird having large speakers and a small screen for video playback, anyway).
- The Zen software comes with a video converter; it converts most standard formats, but it takes many minutes to complete a single conversion. The worst is that the progress bar does not "progress" at all until it completes the task, which makes it pointless to display. You may reconsider this player if you want to use it mainly for video.
Well... I may be forgetting several aspects of the player. Still, all in all, I give the Zen 32 GB five stars. |
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