Creative Zen Touch 20GB (Creative Zen Touch 20 GB)

Member Name: Trenchart1662

Product:	Creative Zen Touch 20 GB
Date:	03/05/05 (406 review reads)
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Advantages: Good Sound Quality, Different from the 'norm', Great capacity

Disadvantages: Sometimes complicated, Some niggles with menus etc, Not an ipod!

Having originally planned to purchase another mp3 player, I decided to go for the Creative Zen Touch 20GB when I saw the way it looked, and the fact that it was of a significantly different design to the ubiquitous ipod. Firstly, the capacity is great-i'll probably never fill this with all the music I ever listen to, at last count 473 mp3 tracks. The sound quality is superb, but depends upon the original quality of the mp3 tracks you have downloaded. Some are better than others. The player is easy to use straight out of the box, although quickly getting to a specific song from start up can take a lot longer than you might imagine. I guess the manufacturer could have simplified the menu system for when you just want to listen anything random. So far the battery has lasted 3 hours on average, although I like loud music, and the instructions say that the battery life will improve gradually with regular and sensible charging. In short, the creative is a good alternative to the ipod, with all you'd need to start listening to your favourite tunes, or download mp3s from popular sites such as Napster etc. It looks good, feels light in your pocket, but ultimately seems to lack the attention to detail that was so obvious in the ipod. Nonetheless a good value alternative.

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