Creative Zen 32 GB Portable Media Player (Black)

Creative Zen 32 GB Portable Media Player (Black) Review

Creative Zen 32 GB Portable Media Player (Black) Feature

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)

Creative Zen 32 GB Portable Media Player (Black) Overviews

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.*

Creative Zen 32 GB Portable Media Player (Black) Customer Review

I'll keep this short and sweet as possible, this being my 4th Creative Zen buy! *Plus also bought a Muvo 2GB for 1 of my sons!*

Battery life,, compared to the I-Pod Touch I own, the Zen has great battery life and if run nearly dead will charge fairly quick, the buttons & menu take a while to figure out & master, but do work well. The Volume choice & Menu selection keys are easy to learn and maneuver, about the same curve learning wise as the I-Pod.
The newer utility to convert Flash & other files to watch is quick & effective. A basic no brainer for the most part, a little time putzing around with it helps with learning menus and basic navigation & controls and care of it too.

So far the 3 year old 4GB Zen has the same battery level & available hrs & use as the newest one! A sure sign of effective use & recharging fully of the battery after enjoying my media! Haven't had any glitches media wise nor battery wise, screen is still clear with minimal scratches, I didn't think of protectors until after my I-Pod purchase! Honestly media transfer is easier on the Creative units, compared to the I-Pod! Figured it would be the opposite but was wrong, (odd isn't it?). Overall the creative units have served me & my kids quite well, am really thinking of buying a 32GB or 64GB X-Fi model sometime soon as well. Honestly thought the I-Pod would out-shine the Creative but it didn't, it's not as easy to navigate nor charge and loading media via I-Tunes sucks!! Plus it really eats power just listening to MP3's or AAC's or whatever.....Video's always eat more power but the I-Pod needed recharging sooner, almost every time I used it! Oh well, Double the cost & it isn't as useful, or as energy efficient at least for me anyway!

My only beef lately buying Creative is using Amazon! It was smoother and cheaper buying direct via [...]!? Oh well, things do change I guess...
I also seldom give 100% or 5 stars yadda yadda, but the Zen really shines!
Now when the batteries do croak, I'll buy a kit and replace it myself, isn't that hard to do, minor fiddling with wires and a touch of Solder ..etc..etc..

If your willing to learn the Keystrokes, menus and so on, it's a gem of a buy!
Hope this helps someone with deciding to purchase or not!? Thanks for reading and Thanks to Creative for the great products!
I Honestly enjoy these Zen Media Players 100%! *My honest opinion* ~Dave in CA~