Creative Zen V 1 GB

The miniature and trendy Creative Zen V is an eye catching colour scheme player. Similar to the Ipod designs the screen occupies almost half of the player leaving the controls below it. It comes in a wide range of colours and size of storage, all of which are supplied with a cloth pouch and neck strap. When using the supplied headphones, the sound quality was reasonable with a good mixture of bass and crisp treble. Upon using an additional headphone gave a considerable increase in audio quality. It supports WAV, WMA and MP3 file formats. The file transfer speed is quite long taking about 2 minutes to transfer 100 megabytes of audio files on average. ...  Read the complete review

What a brilliant little mp3 player this is! I have had it for a few years now and the battery is still working fine. The really good thing about this is that it is not just a good mp3 player it comes with really good extras for example Calender,Time and an Removable Storage facility. It works fine with Windows Media Player which is what I would rather use in preference to the software that comes with it. The size is really good as well because it can fit in a pocket without you feeling it. It is also very easy to send music to this device and fill it up with your new music. One of the most impressive things about this mp3 player is that it ...  Read the complete review

I have had one of these small Creative Zens for a year now, and it's held out quite well, though obviously now I'd buy one that held more music! The only problems with it has been that I've found it hard to create playlists, and that there's not many options to organise music with - the options generally are quite limited. It's crashed once, and I had to wait until the batteries ran out and then recharge it, but since then it's been fine. I only use it to and from work (an hour each way) and it lasts about a week being left off for the rest of the time - I recharge it from the computer. I haven't used the built in microphone. I would ...  Read the complete review