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Creative Zen now available for purchase (in Singapore)
comment: 18 | Monday, April 18 (2005) 12:57PM | Posted by Robert Sinke
The new member of the Zen family, conveniently dubbed "Zen" (just "Zen", nothing else), seems to be available for purchase now. In Singapore, that is. It costs some 509 Singapore Dollars, which translates to about $ 305, US currency.

We asked someone who had already been playing around with it for while, to supply us with a few impressions: "ugly", "not cool" and "dumb" came up a couple of times during that conversation. Well, we'll see soon enough.

LINK

Thanks, NitinS
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Poekoek

Comments: 45
 		Apr 18 (2005) 05:51PM  

I'm not really enthousiastic about the battery life of 11 hours. Too bad that the sizes are not published, I'm wandering if Creative has created a bulky player again, with a thickness of 24 mm or so.



Robert Sinke

Comments: 1221
 		Apr 18 (2005) 06:25PM  

nope, it's about equal to the 20GB iPod (v4) in thickness... well, a notch thicker perhaps - so I was told.



mellowhite

Comments: 35
 		Apr 18 (2005) 06:42PM  

looks good. i cant quite picture the controols on this bigger than the zen micro though. in scaling up i would have kept the width of the touch strip and just uped the height.



sumguy_

Comments: 293
 		Apr 18 (2005) 11:59PM  

wow so its really that that thin... Looking at the picture i wouldnt have thought it.

The micro was as thick as the iPod photo though (much thicker than 20g/G4) so i wonder how they managed to scale this down...

On the looks, it doesnt look too bad, but its nothing great judging from the pics... I liked the micro, but this looks like an awkwardly overgrown one.

Still, creative is going in the right direction. Better styling, better packaging, smaller units etc... so well see how their subsequent releases shape up.



a_spencer

Comments: 3
 		Apr 19 (2005) 02:51AM  

Do you know whether its going to have a removable battery like the Zen Micro?



sumguy_

Comments: 293
 		Apr 19 (2005) 03:34AM  

I would say that from appairent thinness - only judging by that one report - it is unlikely.



Robert Sinke

Comments: 1221
 		Apr 19 (2005) 07:47AM  

it won't



Ehhhhh

Comments: 40
 		Apr 19 (2005) 08:27AM  

I have seen it personally here's my visual impression.

It looks like a blown-up Micro
It looks so much better than teh touch
It has a black back
It has the same pattern as the micro at the back
It comes in nice cardboard boxes (micro-esque) and not blister-pack of death
It doesn't cook your chicken
I think the 2g MD rocks. )



Sebhelyesfarku

Comments: 398
 		Apr 19 (2005) 02:00PM  

ugly, no gapless playback... next please



mellowhite

Comments: 35
 		Apr 19 (2005) 05:16PM  

looks nice, a bit thick. very sleek and thing in the back at the bottom of the player be a removeable battery? i think so.
here are som more links with more picturs.
[Linky]
[Linky]



Allen
Location: Dub Vee Ooo
Comments: 1511
 		Apr 19 (2005) 05:27PM  

Well if creative follow apple... and we end up seeing second generation and third generations of, "zen" players... maybe they will take the majority of the dap market .... by whatever time they said when the threat was made...



sumguy_

Comments: 293
 		Apr 19 (2005) 05:38PM  

Well from those pics it looks a bit thicker than iPod 20gb... And that thing might be a replaceable battery... but its a bit small isnt it?

Hmm



Poekoek

Comments: 45
 		Apr 19 (2005) 06:24PM  

That white-looking Zen posted by Engadget is too ugly!



Robert Sinke

Comments: 1221
 		Apr 19 (2005) 06:40PM  

whoops, it does with a replaceable battery, so it seems - mixed things up there with that certain "other" upcoming product from Creative



Hyper_Noodle

Comments: 226
 		Apr 19 (2005) 10:22PM  

It actually looks pretty nice on the site that has the black being all glossy and sleek. Doesn't seem to really be that way judging from all the other pics, but I don't think it's a horrible design. The interface on this and the mini has always seemed a little "boring" to me, though.



Hyper_Noodle

Comments: 226
 		Apr 19 (2005) 10:29PM  

Er... micro... I meant the micro... stupid i-pod article got stuck in my head...



broadwayrock

Comments: 32
 		Apr 20 (2005) 04:11PM  

according to yesasia.com who are selling the Creative Zen the size of it is:

(WxHxD): 62 x 95 x 19.5mm

[Linky]



YpoCaramel

Comments: 169
 		Apr 30 (2005) 04:45AM  

Not very competitive. It's still as a thick as a ipod photo 60GB, (40% larger thicker than a 30GB!) and costs roughly the same as the ipod v4 20GB ($2200 HKD or about $280USD). Doesn't have USB host or color that the X5 is promising, and that the color of the Gigabeat. It's alright if you need radio, recording and replacable batteries, but then say, the M3L has FLAC and a battery that lasts longer on one go, and a Karma has better connectors and is plenty cheaper, assuming that you live outside Asia.



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