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| Creative Zen 2 GB Portable Media Player (Black) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Creative Labs
Category: CE
List Price: $108.53
Buy New: $64.49
You Save: $44.04 (41%)
New (40) Used (3) from $64.49
Avg. Customer Rating:  598 reviews
Sales Rank: 1838
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Display Size: 2.5
Size: 2 GB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 1 x 1 x 1
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 70PF216300111
Model: 70PF216300111
UPC: 054651151055
EAN: 0054651151055
ASIN: B00126SV6G
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Product Type - MP3 Player | | • | Connectivity - USB 2.0 | | • | Memory - 2GB | | • | Songs -- 1,000 WMAs1/ 266hrs (at 64kbps), 500 MP32/ 133hrs (at 128kbps), 500 AAC3/ 133hrs (at 128kbps) | | • | Battery Life -- Up to 30 hrs audio playtime, Up to 5 hrs video playtime |
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Product Description
ZEN puts a world of entertainment at your fingertips. This amazing, credit card-sized digital media player, with its incredible screen, is the ultimate choice when you want to enjoy your music, movies and photos, whether downloaded from your digital library or from web sites around the world. It also includes an SD card slot, so you can add extra memory or more entertainment whenever you want. If you're ready for a world of enjoyment, then you're ready for ZEN!
Amazon.com Product Description
This credit card-sized Creative Zen has a stunning 2.5-inch color screen and is perfect for music, videos, and photos. Enjoy up to 500 MP3, WMA, or AAC songs; watch up to 70 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 player also is available in 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB, and 32 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 into life with 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 unprotected AAC format, so you can enjoy all of 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 also is 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 Creative Zen 2 GB 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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| Customer Reviews: Read 593 more reviews...
 GREAT for audiobooks December 4, 2008
It took me a LONG time to find the perfect MP3 player for audiobooks. But this is it!!! It's almost magic. It just does what its supposed to. It has an easy-to-use user interface program and you don't have to mess around with bookmarks when you turn the unit off. It just remembers exactly where you were when you turned it off. If you listen to audiobooks, this is the unit you want! The price is right and its easy to use. I got the 4gb model which is plenty of space for me. I can easily get 4 good sized audiobooks on this unit. Each book would be 10 to 15 audio CDs in length.
Best little mp3 player I have ever used!!! December 2, 2008
I bought this player after I had been using a Zen V for several years. It was a great little player, but unfortunatly, my library got too big for it.
I upgraded to the 8gb version of this about 6 months ago. I was highly impressed with it, and still am. The basic things I really noted in it are these:
Pros:
-Colorful, vibrant screen perfect for watching videos on or looking at pictures (has millions of colors vs. the iPod video which has thousands)
-Can play many formats of music; doesn't have the limitations an iPod does
-Sleek, flashy, design; player is about the size of four stacked up credit cards
-Easier to use than an iPod; more options and menu functions
-Has a built in radio; headphones are the antennea
-Sound quality is amazing if used with a decent set of speakers/headphones
-Durable; I have dropped mine many times and gotten it wet, but still it functions perfectly
-Syncs directly with Realplayer/Windows Media Player or you can drag-and-drop files onto it
-Outstanding battery life; I left it on playing music on 'lock' for 9 hours straight and it used only half of the battery.
-Background can be changed and customized to any picture of your choosing
-USB cord is not player-specific and fits many of my other USB electronics, so it's very easy to replace.
-Reset button on bottom of player. Will reset and turn off the player, but will not erase your files.
-Registering your player gives you access to great customer service, who will respond quickly to any problem you encounter
-SD card slot for extra storage. Does not merge with library though, has its own seperate folder, which is not a problem for me.
Cons:
-Scratches easily. I recommend a screen protector.
-Will not play iTunes media; only iPods can sync to iTunes. I would suggest getting a converter/virtual burner such as NoteBurner (http://www.noteburner.com/) to get your iTunes music into a playable format
-This has not happened to me, but I've heard that in the older versions of the firmware, you can get the "white screen of death". However, I do not believe this will be a problem since the newer players have new and improved firmware.
This is well worth your money, it's an amazing price!! I like it a lot better than other mp3 players I have used/owned, including the iPod! I highly recommend it, and I will remain loyal to Creative. Their players are of very high quality, and of very reasonable price!
 $250 Paperweight December 2, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I got this mp3 player (at my own request) for Christmas last year. The thing was alright, it was nifty to customize. However, one day I tried to turn on the radio, and the thing just died. Powered on kinda-sorta, but wouldn't boot. Had to reset it, to no avail.
I tried everything they suggested on the website, and what little help they could give me was to essentially tell me that they couldn't help me because it didn't have a warranty (less than a year later).
I strongly suggest not buying this gadget. Considerably less than durable, and you won't get any help if/when it breaks.
 it does feel cheap December 2, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
well i got this online after much debating on which mp3 player to get. i do not have an apple based computer and was not going to get an apple based mp3 player. i downloaded itunes on my pc for my daughter and it just sucked up the system resources and you have to keep all of your songs that you want on your computer and i dont like that. so i got the zen 2gb player and it does the job i wanted it to. it does have a "cheap" feel and seems to scratch very easily. the battery time is real good and it does not take long to get a full charge. the videos are not the best ive noticed that it will get "blockey" at times and ill re-start it and it goes away for a while. i just imagine one day it will stay "blockey". but for 70 bucks it will work for now.thats why i dont give it 5 stars.
 Why you shouldn't buy this product December 1, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've owned two previous Creative ZEN media players and they were excellent until Windows Vista came out. Then I found out Creative would not create updated software. My players became obsolete, I literally could not add new songs/books without tracking down an XP computer first. My ONLY choice (according to Creative) was to upgrade to a newer device. I spent $100's on these two devices (20gb and 60gb sized players) and now they sit on my obsolete hardware shelf. I was so upset I didn't even consider another Creative product, instead I went directly to Apple and bought a 160gb IPOD. I do not recommend EVER buying a creative product because they don't support them. I will NEVER buy another creative product no matter how good it is.
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