Creative Zen: Clumsy (Creative Zen Nano Plus 1 GB)

Member Name: trivium_rule

Product:	Creative Zen Nano Plus 1 GB
Date:	27/12/06 (165 review reads)
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Advantages: Looks good, small, nice shape.

Disadvantages: Not too reliable, brakes easy, radios fairly bad

Introduction:
When i first bought my Creative Zen Nano Plus In 2005 it's RRP was £100, obviously now it has come right down because of the Ipod. I brought the Creative MP3 Player home and it was really nicely packadged and no problems at all!

Product Type: Digital player / recorder / radio
Digital Player Type: Flash based
Width: 3.4 cm
Depth: 1.3 cm
Height: 6.6 cm
Weight: 34 g
Colour: White
Memory: 1 GB

After 2 Months:
I had tried to load up my music, but having 18 GB's of it, i only got a very small amount on there! I started taking it to school and slowly it got scratched, as there were no Creative Zen Nano Plus cases around, i just had to deal with it.

After 4 Months:
I was fed up of hearing the same tunes over and over again, so i decided to change the tracks, the system integrated into the MP3 player is really good, nothing is encoded so you can drop MP3 files straight into the Removable Disk drive and into the music section, no messing about with itunes or anything. The annoying thing with the Zen is that it tells you to install all this junk you don't really need like ebook downloader and Creative Zen player etc... I was quite happy with my musicmatch jukebox so i never used the Creative Zen Player.

After 6 months:
I started using the radio on it, which is incredibly hard to find a station because you can never get any signal on it, and even when you do get a station it's usually no good because its all crackly and fuzzy. I then played around with the microphone, trying to record some of my bands songs on it. The microphone is good for just talking into, not playing loud music into, which resulted in one huge continous CRRRRRRCCCHHHHHH noise :(

After 8 months:
I dropped it onto the floor from about a meter, which completely shattered it. It was fairly easy to put back together, but had scrathes all over it and the volume control started playing up, which was annoying because i really thought it was a great MP3 player until i dropped it and realised it wasn't very realiable

After a year of having it:
It was scratched to pieces and the headphone jack was lose so the head phones sometimes cut out, the volume buttons had fallen off whilst i was walking and it would only ever go up or down a volume setting after around about 30 presses....:(

Conclusion:
Great MP3 player, but not very good if your likely to drop it or if you like a large variety of music to listen...or you liek your radio.

Summary: Great MP3 player, but not very good if your likely to drop it or if you like a large variety of musi

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