A serious Ipod alternative. (Creative Zen Vision:M 30 GB)

Member Name: jsh2005

Product:	Creative Zen Vision:M 30 GB
Date:	26/07/09 (10 review reads)
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Advantages: battery life, screen quality, good looks, ease of use, great sound !

Disadvantages: Quite bulky, fiddly connector, can scratch quite easily so worth investing in a screen protector .

I took possession of this great player almost three years ago and I have never looked back! I have never experienced any problems with the system and the battery life seems as good now as when I bought it in 2006.

The Vision:M is stylish and the quality of the screen is great, outstripping even the newest of ipods by a fair margin in my opinion; the menu is intuitive and easy to use and features such as the DJ program make your music all the more enjoyable.
I have only two gripes with the product: it is thicker than an ipod and can be difficult to fit into a pocket. Also the connection unit for the usb and charging cables is irritating; it is small and therefore easy to lose so I bought a seperate cable for charging and data transfer very cheaply from a third party manufacturer.

Finally the software provided with the player is excellent and has none of the restrictions imposed by apple on your music transfer. The player has drag and drop functionality so simply plug it into any computer and get downloading!
(as an added bonus the price has now dropped dramatically making this a great buy for credit crunch times!)

Summary: Still an excellent all round MP3 player even 3 years down the line

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