Creative Zen

Application Description

TCreative's superslim Zen has a gorgeous 320-by-240-pixel color display, an FM tuner, a built-in microphone, robust video- and photo-viewing capabilities, and the ability to import contact management information--and it plays music.

Pros

Feature-heavy/SD card slot for instant memory upgrades The Creative Zen sounds fantastic and features a brilliant color screen capable of displaying photos and video. The player offers a smorgasbord of desirable extras such as an SD card expansion slot, an FM radio, a voice recorder, and a user-definable EQ. It has a slim, pocket-friendly design; is very user-friendly; supports subscription music; and sports a reasonable price tag.

Cons

One-handed operation a little tricky/Skimps on bundled accessories The Creative Zen only comes in black, the control pad feels cheap, and it doesn't come close to matching the max 60GB offered by the player it's replacing.

Video Playback Problem

The supported video formats for Creative Zen include AVI, MPEG, and WMV. So, if you want to play videos not in AVI, WMV, or MPEG format, you'll get a problem importing those videos into Zen. To solve this problem, you can throw away your Zen player to change a player which supports more video formats. Or you keep it and get a video converter to convert the unsupported video format to Zen supported video formats.