A rolling stone gathers no Bross (Creative Zen Stone Plus 4 GB)

Member Name: 1st2thebar

Product:	Creative Zen Stone Plus 4 GB
Date:	14/09/09 (71 review reads)
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Advantages: Stores 4GB of music data

Disadvantages: The interface lacks clarity

CREATIVE ZEN - STONE PLUS -
Storage Capacity: - 4GB

A rolling stone gathers no Bross
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Manufacture Details > Creative Hong Kong The company in UK is known as Creative UK even though it is headed under the Europe labs which established itself in 1993.
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Networks include - America labs- Asia labs- Europe labs.
- Product > STONE - PLUS - MP3 Portable Media Player - 4GB
Comes in all colours - Available RRP date: 10/2008 - HK Asian market
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This hand-held device resembles a pebble that correctly glistens around the smooth contours carefully crafted and well devised proto-type looks like a market capturing winner. Not all that skims the water is golden, but in this case the Stone is in fact not all just cleverly crafted, but carries features that deems well endorsed for future generations, which other manufacturers just may adopt because Creative Labs have done their marketing homework and have listened to their critics and implemented a few of there suggestions in the Stone Plus


The Stone Plus is the 2009's answer to beating the bulge. Highly wanted to any sports enthusiast who wants to relish a great sound as well as how many calories or steps they have made during the session at the gym or on a daily working day basis. Creative has made it possible to have portable entertainment while on the move, and is one of the first PMP brands to envelope the need of relishing physical training attributes to simply listening to portable MP3 media. I believe it to be an excellent spots attachment attire that should only improve the nations fitness. It is Creatives' attempt to being Jamie Oliver, of course without the 'pukka' rubbish that is spat out of his mouth in regular intervals. What the question remains is - will this model compete with the iPod? - the early signs are good but as yet the number of sales are still not at the same level during the last few months into 2009. - The main fall-down point is the 'can't miss' digital OLED screen that is surprisingly a monochrome, and is also only 0.7" squared. Small isn't always classed as a bad move as I like the stylized visionary visual concept; then again, it will take a little getting use to if your use to a bigger navigation screen.

This PMP; also comes with a couple of stopwatch games that simulates the old Nokia game 'ladders'. These are free and comes with the package, they're fun and rather addictive, so be warned. The file browser doesn't carry the same weight as the more accustomed Creative MP3 browsers, as it is a bit warn-out and looks like a 'has been' and then gone application. The normal features such as the voice recognition option and FM Radio are available and all media files ending in MP3 and WMA formats are readable on this portable player. But last of all if your ready for a body crunching work-out schedule this would definitely be your friend as it counts your calories as you burn them off and counts your steps; however, it doesn't count the number of calories you scoff during the day, now if it did that that would be an impressive piece of technology.

What do you get in the deal?
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Creative ZEN STONE PLUS
Pouch
Wrist strap with lens cleaning cloth
Earphones
USB cable
Quick Start Leaflet

The Stone Plus can store 4 GB
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The storage space is more than sufficient to play over 20000 MP3 audio tracks. The transfer rates are fast due to the fast USB transfer fast - track Windows music browser software. What is a noticeable difference is that it is not an ipod. There are not so many features nor as stylish and slick. Naturally, there is no iTune extravaganza, with freebies and membership options that Apples ipod do include.

*Available online from Creatives Hong Kong website - 60.00 $ - delivery to allocated address will be made within 28 days of purchase, not including packaging and postage. Very good value for money

Overall statistics for Creative Zen's Stone Plus - Portable Media Player
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Sound and Graphics - 15.48 out of 20.00
Storage - 11.63 out of 20.00
Features - 16.04 out of 20.00
Design and Navigation - 17.37 out of 20.00
Originality - 16.25 out of 20.00
OVERALL SCORE - 76.77 out of 100
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Copyright - 1st2thebar 09 -2009

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