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Creative Zen Mozaic EZ100 8 GB

Member Name: industria000
Product:
Creative Zen Mozaic EZ100 8 GB
Date: 01/06/10
Rating:
Advantages: Small, Robust, Cheap, Battery life is amazing and sound quality is fab!
Disadvantages: had major menu niggles but could be my own software issue!
I actually have the pink version of this model, which at the time was exclusive to a well known high street catalogue shop we all know and use!
Ok I am bad at reviewing things that have loads to talk about so I'll do my best and try to split into sections about this lil' dude.
Useability:
At first seems simple, you turn on with the play button which you press and hold for a few seconds, and you do the same action to switch the unit off. Buttons on the unit are what i'd say engraved, but not exactly with the functions they serve. Menus are easy to use and for the screen quality, easy to read. I have had a few niggles with trying to browse through my artists. There's an A-Z list on the right hand side for quick browsing of artist/album name, although on my player, past the letter H it doesn't seem to work, it would love going to the letter S and staying there. I also had to wait about half a minute after pressing the down or up button to browse before it'd actually start to move up and down the screen.
Quality:
For a small tiny ditty player, I have to say, fab quality and in all creative products its the same. Bass boosts are fab, no 'tinny' sounds (Unless you have terrible headphones!) everything is sweet! Screen quality is a little to be desired, yet for a screen that's so small I doubt people would want to use this to view and hold pictures on.
Battery Life:
AMAZING. That's it. I've had this player for over a year, I listen to it for over half an hour everyday (With also skipping tracks and changing volume alot) and it still takes up to a month before the battery runs low and needs a quick charge from my laptop!
PC to Player:
Pretty good! Recognised as plug and play (In windows) and pops up to open its own little window with folders, it really is a case of dragging and dropping required objects into the appropriate folders and that's that. The speed in which things transfer is pretty good too, I cannot fault on how quick a song shoots over to it!
Overall, except for the menu niggles (Which could be my own players problem, im not sure if it's a universal thing) it'd be a great player for young kids who can be destructive (It's a robust little thing and its cheap!) and great for people who just want something cheap thats for on the go. If you want a snazzy little thing with bells on, i would look somewhere else, but for the up-to-date basics? Here's your answer.
Summary: Really good cheap mp3 player that does what it's meant to do!
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