Pros and cons of this model and Creative mp3 players in general (Creative Zen Micro 6 GB)

Member Name: nicorebel

Product:	Creative Zen Micro 6 GB
Date:	03/01/06 (436 review reads)
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Advantages: Price, User friendly, good features

Disadvantages: bulkiness

Creative in my view produce the nost user friendly mp3s players and this view comes from an ipod owner (I am living to regret my choice). First advantage is this - if one deletes their library songs by purpose or mistake they can easily tansfer for them from the mp3 player to the library - this cannot be done with the ipod. A second benefit is that Creative have an easy to use inbuilt search function where one can search for artists by letter. "Whatever", I hear you utter. However this function would come in handy if one had hundreds of bands beggining with the letter "S", they could quickly type in the band they require instead of heaps of scrolling, which is time consuming thus frustrating. A third advantage of a Creative mp3 player is that one can quickly delete and to my knowledge amend the name of songs on the gadget unlike on an iPod.

However, the shortcomings are these: the design needs working on - it is bulky and lacks the slick and uber cool design of the iPod or the Walkman HDD. Secondly, be aware of the price of a 6GB model. For it you purchase it in a shop it is pricey and for about £30 more you can purchase a far more generous 20GB model. Thirdly, accessories are not widely available in shops, such as cases and speakers.

A vital point to remember is that the more GBs you opt for, the cheaper the mp3 player works out. So if you have 100S of albums to store and play on the go, I strongly suggest you go for gold and buy perhaps a 40 GB model, they are getting cheaper by the month.

Overall, I reccomend this particular model but not the capacity as the cost is too much, ironically, for the small amount of GB.

Summary: easy to use, more features than ipod, getting cheaper, however too expensive ..

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