zen x-fi, brings the best out of media and life to the mp3 experience (Creative Zen X-Fi 32 GB)

Member Name: Kitsune-Kun

Product:	Creative Zen X-Fi 32 GB
Date:	30/06/09 (14 review reads)
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Advantages: pocketable, crytsall playback, quick charging, good updates, many easy to use features

Disadvantages: back of it scratches very easy, poor loud speaker, can auto-reset.

Brilliant: The clarity of the music flow is amazing. I find that when in use with the provided premium headphones the playback quality is superb: each lyric is crystal, whislt the backing music is defined and evenly proportioned, no sound dominates over each other, as such very smooth, music if heard. With the x-fi setting to the max any previous fuzzyness, distortions and data anomilies are waved over and a somewhat louder more penertrating playback is experieinced.

The menu is very easy to use, yet it is always best to briefly read the users manual to make the most of its neat little scroll system. The mp3 player also plays mp4 videos, to which are easily converted into a useable fromat using the provided software.

Creative regularly update the products firmware. the x-fi is also compatable with ebooks, audio books, has access to radio stations (works very well with an easy to use adjustable tuner and station saver), has an alarm function. Yet the most impressive feature of this already jam-packed device is its ability to latch onto a wifi connection and transform itself into an online messenger chat tool. It has inbuilt 32gb, which actually shows up at around 29gb, but there is a nifty little slot; enabling the insertion of external memory such as the micro sdhc cards, upto 16gb.

Being of pocketable size it is very light and durable. One would assume that the battery is poor, on the contary it lasts me a good 3-4 days of frequent music playback. If you do find it down on battery, simply plug it into the all too common usb port of a running pc and it automatically charges itself up.

Unlike the simple ipod, the zen x-fi also comes with a loud speaker, this is good if you want to demo music to your peers, however it is not very loud. for its size the screen is to be expected...not too large tio be on the impressive scale as the itouch.

One highly reccommended mp3 player with a whole aresenal of quality multi-media functions with easy to access interfaces.

Summary: Best choice for an mp3 player, but with more than an ipod.

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