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Few days back I just ordered one of these babies. My old cheap mp3 player died on me. Well, not really died, just went crazy. Skip the mp3 whenever it wants to. Sometime just refuse to play all together. When it’s in a good mood, it’ll play for me. Just fortunate I have a bulky cd/mp3 Sony discman. At least I don’t have to go to my students without any music.

Why I decided to get this? Many of the reviews I’ve read said that the sound quality is superb. 10 out of 10. That’s what mp3s are for in the first place, isn’t it? Secondly, it has a 2.5″ screen with rather crisp images. A classic ipod has 2.8″ screen. That’s not much of a difference. Thirdly, it is small. Exactly the size of a credit card or any bank card. Fits in your palm snuggly. Cute. Then, as I believe, many people who didn’t choose ipod is due to the file support. When you buy an ipod, it means you will have to buy everything from apple from then on for your player. This is not so with the Creative Zen. Only thing is, for videos you have to convert the videos to fit the 320 x 240 resolution of the screen. Though the ad said that you can upload any divx,wmv files. Finally, besides the price that is much cheaper than an ipod, the winning feature that bought me over is its capability to take sd card. Which means, potential extension of memory later on. The biggest memory I’ve seen is 16 gb. As you know technology, they will increase the size I believe so I will be expecting a bigger memory SD card later. If ever I need one that is.

Check out the quality of the video played on creative zen. I saw this on youtube. The guy played an anime series on his creative zen. Very exciting since I have my favourite anime that I would like to store in mine later.

They are available in 2 gb, 4gb, 8gb, 16 gb and the latest now 32 gb.

Isn’t it just cute??

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