This was the product my sister got for her husband over Christmas so I have had a lot of time sampling it. My first impression was that it looked like a camerca and not a MP3 player but after using it is very straighforward to use and looks very stylish and fashionable especially as most people will be carrying iPod appliances.

You have 8GB worth of memory on it which means you can store a lot of songs although the 16GB would be better (to put into perspective my older iPod around £180 now has a massive 80GB memory so in comparison the Zen is trailing behind a little. The plus side though is that it is very versatile and seemingly scratch proof and has a (bigger than the standard iPod) screen size of 240x320 so it is much better to watch things on the screen than it would be the iPod but I'm not a fan of doing that on either device anyway.

One big downside for me (having an iPod for years) was the lack of features such as the very popular apps that have appeared recently on iPhones etc and also games that the iPod is famous for so personally for me I wouldn't make to 'downgrade' and go for an inferior product but if all you want a MP3 for is to play music then this is a great (and cheaper) alternative (whilst still looking trendy) to the iPod/iPhone.