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Brand: Creative Labs
Category: CE

List Price: ~~$299.99~~
Buy New: $239.99
You Save: $60.00 (20%)

New (4) Used (2) from $199.99

Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

582 reviews
Sales Rank: 2016

Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Display Size: 2.5
Size: 32 GB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 2.2 x 0.4 x 3.3
Warranty: 1 year warranty

MPN: ZEN 32GBBK
Model: ZEN 32GBBK
UPC: 054651156227
EAN: 0054651156227
ASIN: B0012YPMOC

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com Product 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.*

Product Description
Creative Labs introduces the credit card-sized ZEN with a stunning 2.5" color screen for music, video and photos - featuring an expansive 32GB in-built capacity, as well as an SD slot for even more memory. Students, travelers, and professionals seeking a superior, feature rich MP3 player to fit their active lifestyle, this is the MP3 player for you. Listen to your favorite FM stations and save up to 32 presets 2.5 High resolution color TFT display (320 x 240 pixels, 16.7 million color support for photos) Battery Life - Up to 25 hours of continuous audio playback, Up to 5 hours of continuous video playback Audio Playback Format - MP3, WMA, non-protected AAC, WAV and Audible 2,3 and 4 Photo Format - JPEG with transcoding - GIF, TIFF, PNG and BMP Video Playback Format - MJPEG, WMV9 with transcoding - MPEG1 and 2, MPEG4-SP, DivX 4 and 5 and XviD Syncs with and views Microsoft Outlook Contacts, Calendar & Tasks Functions as an external hard drive 8 EQ settings (Acoustic, classical, disco, jazz, new age, pop, rock andvocal) Capture notes on the go with the handy built-in microphone Supports iTunes Plus (unprotected AAC) and music and video subscription services System Requirements - Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 2), Microsoft Windows Vista, USB 1.1 port, and 130MB free space Dimensions - Width 3.26 x Height 2.16 x Depth 0.44 Weight - 2.1 ounces

Customer Reviews: Read 577 more reviews...

2 out of 5 stars

Keep a paper clip handy and be ready to reset this thing often. November 20, 2008
RJL (Texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This Zen locks up all the time. It freezes up a few times a day when listening to an audio book. I keep a paper clip handy to push the little reset button which is the only way to knock it loose. Nothing quality about the build or feel. Feels like a 12.99 kid's toy. I wanted to like it, but just can't seem to find a very good reason.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent MP 3 Player November 19, 2008
James Smith (Wilton, NH United States)
Excellent MP3 Player. I am able to carry almost all my music plus photos and video whereever I go. Even purchased one for my wife. We both love them.

1 out of 5 stars

An Electronic Lemon November 17, 2008
Oceanman (Margaritaville)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

Coming out of the box, Creative Zen 16GB MP3 Player puts on quite an impressive show. This model is complimented with a brilliant color screen, crystal clear sound, SD card slot, FM radio, voice recorder and user friendly EQ. Like most models in this line, it only comes in black.

This unit supports a vast array of WMA, WAV, ADPCM, Audible, MP3, AAC. In video mode battery life clocked in at about 5 hours. Audio lasted for about 20 hours. PIM function will allow for the syncing of calendar, appointments, etc; via Outlook. FM radio offers auto scan with 32 preset slots.

All in all this WAS the perfect and probably the most complete player on the market. If it had not been for other problems raising their ugly head I could have easily overlooked the sticky and very cheap control pad. In short, after a few months of perfect sound and video the system simply locked up. No video, no music, no nada.

Phone tech support with Creative Labs is not what it is cracked up to be. Sending in the unit for diagnostics and repair was a month long ordeal with limited results at best. Once returned, the player worked for a awhile until the same evil gremlin raised its ugly head.

After repeated attempts at resolving this problem with an almost non-existent customer support center, I was informed the item was no longer under warranty and that I would have to foot the bill for any future repairs. The Creative Zen 16GB Mp3 Player would have been an outstanding purchase if it had only operated for at least one year before biting the dust. Bottom line is, I am left with a very overpriced paper weight.

3 out of 5 stars

Good, not great November 15, 2008
Paul Cordell
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Nice look, nicer quality, good picture.
Nice size memory, and then it fails ....
The player has and awesome expansion slt how cool?
No it not its pretty useless as you can not use any option on the flash drive just the click and play.
Look like a tad more work is needed on software, if they had nailed
that for the money know one would have come close.
Stupid careless thing to do make and expanding drive thats pretty useless.
For that it lost a 5 star to a three pity.

1 out of 5 stars

Do Not Buy, Horrible Customer Support November 15, 2008
Philip A. Spicer (Broken Arrow, OK United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

I wanted one of these for quite awhile before finally deciding to buy one. I was quite disappointed when I got it home. While it claims to support "subscription" services and protected WMA files, it would only sync to about 10 songs. So I tried to contact Creative about this, only to find out that they don't have a tech support phone number listed anywhere. Not listed in the manual, not on their website. They want to force you into email tech support, which from previous experience with other companies, sucks. They never actually read your email and understand the problem. So once you wait 3 days for a response, they tell you to do everything you already tried. On and on it goes, for weeks. No thanks, Creative. I returned the Zen and will stick with Sansa who I have never had a problem with.

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