Creative Zen Stone 1 GB

As far as budget mp3 players go, very few strike a balance between price and quality like the Creative Zen Stone. I bought mine for £24.99, and to this day I consider this one of my shrewdest buys. Although capacity is limited, this little piece of kit does everything you could want from an mp3 player. It's a very small piece of equipment (the size of my friend's iPod screen alone!); easy enough to unobtrusively slip into a pocket, and the additional accessories available such as the wrist strap make activities such as jogging a pleasure. The only gripe one could have is the lack of screen. However, the 'skip folder' button eliminates the need for ...  Read the complete review

My eldest monster was 11 in September and decided that he would like his own MP3 player, well it was a joint decision really because I had threatened him with beheading if he used mine again! We do have similar taste in music but it came to a head when he downloaded the killers onto my MP3 and deleted Guns N Roses! So as I am not the technical one in the family it was down to the other half to find one for him, so as this was obviously a very important task and like most men would take hours of trawling different sites to find the perfect one I left him to it. To my surprise this little box turned up a week later with this product inside, so had the other half ...  Read the complete review

I got this as a birthday gift 18 months ago, (I believe £25 was the ball park cost) I have loved this simple yet in my opinion stylish little MP3 player. The stone comes with all the accessories that you would expect. A USB mini connector so you can transfer music (and other files I will get to that later) from you computer; a set of functioning headphones and an instruction manual. To get started you need to charge the unit for three hours, this done via the USB lead so whilst the unit is charging you can transfer the music you want onto the device. I tend not to bother with the Creative software as you can use this player (like most other MP3 ...  Read the complete review

I have used my Creative Zen Stone for just over a year and love it. It was a true bargain - that is, well priced and a quality product. The 1GB memory is ample, in my opinion. To be honest, I don't really understand the sense in having an 20GB iPod (unless of course you want to watch movies). My record collection is extensive (I own at least 500 CDs) but I've never had any occasion where I've wanted to listen to them all in a row. With my Zen Stone, I tend to rotate the music I have on there about once a week. It's extremely simple to do - just plug it in to your computer with the USB cable provided and copy and paste your files across. Another ...  Read the complete review

Just recently Creative released the Zen Stone quite clearly to compete directly against the iPod Shuffle. Creative are one of Apple's main rivals and in the past few years they have released very similar products to each other. Creative up until now were not competing in the small mp3 player market against Apple. But they have released little player to compete against the iPod Shuffle. The player is a basic offering just like the shuffle that offers 1GB of space which is suitable for 250 tracks and it is also a screenless player. The player just like the Shuffle is ideal as a secondary mp3 player because it is small and very portable, it can be taken anywhere without a ...  Read the complete review