Creative Zen 4GB Flash Portable Media Player

A Good MP3 Player with Expansion Slot

Strengths: Price, Compact Size, Screen Size, Expansion Slot, FM Radio, and Voice Recorder

Weakness: Playing MP3 on the memory expansion card would not have full function that is available to the player when using internal memory.

This is a good and quality MP3 player from Creative. Unlike Zune and iPod, you can just hook it up to your computer and add songs via drag and drop. It is compact but not the smallest ones. The expansion slot makes it easy to add MP3 songs, pictures or video clips. However, many of the functions that are available to the player when using internal memory are not available to if the external...

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Excellent Portable Video Player

Strengths: Excellent 2.5 inch screen Very Good Audio Quality Nice Build Quality Very Portable Expandability via SD Slot

Weakness: Not True Widescreen No Line-In or External Mic Recording FM Tuner Not as Good as Others Limited Video Formats Supported Works with Macs but not supported by Creative

After two ipods, I wanted a portable video player primarily to stay connected with some video podcasts I regularly watch. Originally I thought of the Ipod Touch or the Archos 605, both touch screen, WiFi equipped players. After thinking it through, I probably wouldn't have the chance to use the WiFi connection all that much and touch screen devices a magnet for fingerprints. When I learned of the...

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Amazing little MP3 player!

Strengths: Very beautiful screen, great sound quality, tons of other features, easy to use, nice softwares...

Weakness: Ridiculously-short USB cable, shorter-than-expected battery life

I had done countless hours of researching on the web about this Creative MP3 player, I finally got it from Buydig.com for less than $100(shipping included). What a deal! Opened the box, nice and small player, charged via pc with my OWN usb cable(the one comes with it is WAY TOO SHORT). The sound quality is excellent. Pictures look much better than the promo ones on the website. The only thing I...

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great little media player

Strengths: small, good screen, flash base

Weakness: none

First of all, what a great player! Easy navigation, great looking video, great sound quality, and easy setup. I find the screen to be far superior to the iPod's screen and the feel is very comfortable. I love the fact that you can use any software to get your music and video from, personally I don't care for iTunes. I love the recording and FM tuner and the programmable button. it makes life very...

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A great product but could use some improvements

Strengths: A lot of features, small and light, great screen, decent sound.

Weakness: Current firmware 1.20.02 is buggy, need to install Zencasts to work with it for podcasts.

This is a very nice video mp3 player with a lot of potential. It's small and light, with FM tuner and voice recorder. It offers a very clean way to organize zencasts (aka podcasts) similar to ipod. This is the main reason I like it. I listen to financial podcasts everyday. The only few drawback is that the current FW (as of 01/03/2007) is buggy. Every zencasts are cut off short about a minute or...

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Nice Media Player

Strengths: Crisp video. Nice sound.

Weakness: Short battery playtime.

I wanted a flash-based player for outdoor use and chose this player because my previous good experience with the Creative Zen Vision:M and its support of SDHC cards for storage addition. The player is small yet feels solid. Its video is crisp just as that of its cousin ZVM. It has a nice sound but not quite as warm as that of the ZVM. The user-interface design is similar to the ZVM's -- very...

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The bottom Line on the ZEN 4gig

Strengths: FM radio with record capability. Built in mic. Very nice picture quality for photos and videos. Easy navigation. Clean compact design.

Weakness: No backlight for control/navigation buttons. Rather small 4gig built in capacity for content.

Overall a very nice little device with lots of features. Only 4gig capacity is mostly rectified with the SD memory card slot. Shiny black casing with a small handprint makes it a very fashionable piece. Excellent sound and picture quality also a plus. Extra Kudos for the provided software. Creative seemed to have made it very easy to properly convert and load video from my laptop hard rive on to...

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I'm done with Creative products

Strengths: LCD screen, memory card slot

Weakness: crapped out after 4 months of limited usage

This is my fourth creative mp3 player, of which 3 stopped working. I had previously purchased the Zen Xtra 30 and 40 gigs. I decided to purchase a smaller mp3 player that was eaiser to carry around and chose the Zen 4GB. I have had this since the end of August 2008 and it stopped working for me on Christmas 2008. I am so disappointed that I am going to make the leap to an IPod.

Creative ZEN 4GB

Strengths: Player looks and feels good, controls take getting used to. Especially like the screen size.

Weakness: Had 2 players within 3 weeks and both failed. Not very reliable.

Bought unit and after two weeks failed to keep a charge. Returned unit and got a replacement unit. This unit worked for a week before failing. Using Creative software to load music, computer froze and player stopped working. Not impressed. My son has 8GB player and has no problems, yet...

OK product

Strengths: Lots of features packed into product. Big Video screen, memory card support to expand memory, plays library audio books, lots of space.

Weakness: Will not stay docked. Small controls easy to mess up. Poor software. Short battery life. Memory card not well integrated. Clumsy navigation menus.

On the good side. Being able to quickly set FM station presets is really nice and easy to use. Being able to play licensed audio library books. - On the bad side. Unable to keep the Zen docked to a computer and recognized by the computer. Repeatedly being recognized and dropped. Zen player thinks it is docked the entire time. Changing cables and computer doesn't fix the problem. Make it difficult...

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