Reviews

Creative Zen 4GB
27 September 2007

For once, Creative released a DAP before Apple. Does the flash memory-based DAP with 2.5" true colours screen, SD card slot and AAC support live up to expectations or is it just another DAP from Creative?

Creative Zen Stone 1GB
25 May 2007

Creative's policy seems to be "better late than never", and in their usual game of catch-up, they recently launched a new DAP competing directly with the 2G iPod Shuffle. This new DAP is called the Zen Stone, with 1GB capacity and a range of bright colours.

M-Cody M-20 2GB
15 Oct 2006

Leave it to Korean company Median Co. Ltd. to come up with the M-Cody M-20. This DAP features the familiar iPod nano-like rectangular profile. But that is where all similarity ends.

Creative Zen V Plus 2GB
30 July 2006

Creative is not new to flash memory-based DAPs. But each newer release of a flash memory-based player became mechanical. There lacked the "Wow" factor. Instead, Creative changed the look slightly, added a feature or two, upped the model number, and that was that. All that changes with the Zen V series.

Creative Zen Vision:M 30GB
13 Jan 2006

Riding on the success of the Zen Vision, Creative shrunk it down and created the Zen Vision:M. The first thing you might notice is the name. This is probably the first time Creative has used a single letter to denote a new generation of players.

Creative Zen Vision 30GB vs. Consus PMC-300 20GB
17 Sep 2005

Last year, Creative launched the first Portable Media Player, the Creative Zen Portable Media Center, or Zen PMC in short. It was developed jointly with Microsoft, and featured a Microsoft-driven OS (Operating System). It was a pretty cool idea. In a relatively small device (compared to a laptop, for example), you could watch your favourite movies on it. It had several flaws.

Creative Zen 20GB
8 June 2005

Some time after the launch of the Zen Micro, Creative silently released a new player into the market. Unlike the huge publicity over the Zen Micro, this new player crept into stores almost unnoticed. In fact, there were a lot of rumours spreading on the Internet. Some, judging it by the size, said this new player was called the Zen Macro.

Creative Zen Neeon 5GB
1 June 2005

Enough has been said about Creative being slow. The Zen Micro came out nearly a year after the iPod mini. A Creative digital audio player with a colour screen is nowhere to be seen, despite competitors releasing players with colour screens. FM tuner and recording is nice, but it lacked line-in encoding for higher quality recordings. Also, the design and software tended to appeal more to the techies. Well, no more, according to Creative.

Olympus m:robe MR-100 5GB
7 May 2005

Ever since Apple introduced the iPod Mini, and Creative launched the Zen Micro, many other companies have been coming up with competing products. The iRiver H10 comes with a touch-sensitive scroll, as well as a colour screen. The Samsung YH-820MC, like the H10, also has a colour screen. In fact, Creative has already announced the Zen Micro Colour, basically a Zen Micro with, you guessed it, a colour screen. Yet the recent offering by Olympus, the m:robe MR-100, goes against all that.