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Creative ZEN X-Fi 16GB with Wireless LAN Compatibility | 
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| Brand: Creative
Category: CE
Buy New: £124.61
New (6) from £124.61
Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 459
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 2.5 TFT 16.7 million color LCD
Display Size: 2.5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 8 x 18
nv: Alarm: Yes
Audible Support: Yes
Audio Recording: Yes
Battery Life: 18 hours music; 8 hours video
Battery Life Details: Video playback with built-in speakers Lithium ion 4 hour(s) Video playback Lithium ion 5 hour(s) Digital playback with built-in speakers Lithium ion 13 hour(s) FM radio Lithium ion 20 hour(s) Digital playback Lithium ion 36 hour(s)
Bookmarking Support: Yes
Built in Clock: Yes
Built in Speakers: Yes
Codec Support: MP3 MP3 VBR and WMA Files.
Colour LCD Screen: Yes
MPN: 70 PF2391 00 1F 5
Model: 70 PF2391 00 1F 5
EAN: 5390660157899
ASIN: B001C9VZKM
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Crystal clear sound quality produced using Creative's X-Fi technology | | • | Wireless LAN technology supports content streaming and download on a home network plus live chat to contacts on MSN Messenger or Yahoo! Messenger | | • | Premium quality Creative EP-830 headphone supplied | | • | Sleek & graceful design | | • | Built in powerful speaker |
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Product Description
The Sound of Perfection Experience your MP3 music as the artist originally intended with ZEN X-Fi - the first player to restore the quality of compressed music with award-winning X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity Audio technology. Indulge in rich audio where you can hear your music in crystal clear clarity. Take in guitar strumming crisp cymbal clashes and deep pounding bass as detail lost during file compression are now beautifully restored. The built-in X-Fi technology intelligently moves a conventional left/right earphone stereo source away from your ears virtually expanding it for an audio experience with a breathtakingly realistic depth of field. You'll feel as if you were listening to your music from a pair of high end speakers. Wi-Fi Enabled The Creative Zen X-Fi now comes with built-in Wi-Fi*! Use the Wi-Fi connection to stream & download content from a home network or chat to friends using MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger clients. *Only available in 16GB and 32GB models Built with X-Fi technology Experience the very essence of music perfection as you listen to audio in crystal clear clarity. Hear your music the way it was always meant to be heard. Premium High-Quality Earphones The EP-830 earphones give you optimum comfort together with excellent noise-isolation capability. Very few players come with good earphones included but the Creative ZEN X-Fi provides these beauties straight out the box. With rumbling bass and twinkling highs what better way to take advantage of the X-Fi technology than to give it top quality hardware like the EP-830's. Sleek beauty A pocket-sized player that weighs less than 71g ZEN X-Fi sports attractive curves with graceful lines and finish. No need for external speakers Be the life of the party as you share your music out loud with the powerful built-in speaker. More content endless enjoyment Increase the size of your portable media library with an SD or SDHC card. Transfer your files easily to enjoy more videos music and phot
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 Zen and the art of music CD ripping October 1, 2008
W. R. Mason (Coventry, England)
77 out of 78 found this review helpful
At 57 years old I thought it was time I replaced my battered but functional Sony FM walkman with something a bit more up to date. So I researched everything to do with portable music players and ended up through a process of elimination for functionality, cost and looks with the X-Fi 8GB. First off I'm a big person with big fingers so I thought the tiny buttons might be a problem but they work fine with the edge of the nail and fall intuitively where you think they should be. The centre set of 9 buttons is a bit like a mobile phone arrangement logically with the centre buttton being the "do it" button. The on/off hold is easy to use on the back and the sleep timer (15min upwards) is perfect for falling asleep to Classic FM. The FM radio is a joy! Having heard hissy FM radios over the decades this produces a sweet noisefree FM sound (provided the signal is 1 bar or over on the handy signal meter). It was fun trying the manual tuning but the autostore gave the top 5 stations anyway and there are 32 presets. The bundled software was really easy to install and use. I ripped 30 cd's at an average of about 5 minutes a CD and the synchro when transferring was fast and trouble free. The video playback was suprisingly clear and the screen is bright and sharp. It has very little perceivable weight so is very comfortable for pocket use. Sound quality for mp3 is really good and there is a large amount of EQ choice with presets and a user defined preset that allows you to fiddle endlessly with the hertziz! The X-fi sound processor is a quick way of crystalising and/or expanding the sound at a couple of presses, but I preferred fiddling with the EQ myself to get the tweaky higher bass and higher treble sound I like. The bundled headphones are good quality in-ears and make a big difference too. I tried sennheiser HD280 Pro headphones and it was a definetly a higher end sound so it's amazing value. If you like FM radio then this had got it all in spades and the mp3 and video playback is as good as it gets for my needs. Excellent.
Warwick
Once you've had enough of bad performance from multi function phones...... October 18, 2008
neal (Norwich, UK)
29 out of 30 found this review helpful
.....you'll be sensible to buy one of these.
I got to the point where phones and the PSP just don't cut it. Having a jack of all trades device tends to mean that it does lots of things and it doesn't do them very well.
This is my first step away from "multi function devices". I don't care what additional things this does, I want it to play music and play it well.
It does....exceptionally well. The X-Fi clarity is as good as that you get with Creative's sound cards. For anybody who has fitted an X-Fi extreme card, there is a big advance in sound quality. It's the same with this. Playlists aren't particularly easy to set up on the player itself but it can be done through the software provided too. There are changeable themes including the all black one in the pics and the grey and orange one depicted for the 8gb model on creative's site. Photo's can be made in to wallpapers. The firmware doesn't seem to stall and responds instantly.
It has a graphic equaliser and separate x-fi enhancement.
Sound quality is a real 10 out of 10. Listening to Angel by Massive Attack proves the capability of the player and the headphones - no distortion at full volume and with bass boost and increased bass on the EQ. There was also no flattening out of the sound. It stays rich and balanced at full volume. You won't need to change headphones unless you have a real dislike of in the ear noise cancelling types. The supplied ones cost 30 by themselves. Frequency response seems to be about 8-20,000 which gives the sound it's richness.
Full volume is reassuringly loud. I'd had this problem with Sony Ericsson Walkman phones that were too quiet. I'd changed headphones, used CX400's etc but the sound just wasn't there nor was the volume.
This has an optional volume retriction which you can set yourself.
Charging is done via USB so you will need to have a PC....or maybe a PS3. Transferring files is not too bad on a slow PC - I'll update that comment when I've used my own and tried out other things like video playback.
Essentially I wanted this for music and it is like a hi-fi separates sytem or hi grade sound orientated PC that fits in your pocket. I'm just going on first impressions but I'm very happy with this so far.
I can't think why anybody would be disappointed with this.
Zen X-Fi September 22, 2008
Tim (England, UK)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
One word, superb...
I've been using iPod's for the last few years, and although I must say the click wheel is far better than the traditional buttons used on the Zen its still quite easy to navigate through large libraries.
The best bit... the sound. With iPod's it frustrated me that there was no custom EQ, and that the sound got quite poor and distorted when you added extra bass. The Zen sound quality is quite simply amazing... even with the supplied earphones (which are actually pretty good, a first! The iPod ones are crud!)
If you prefer thin, tinny sound with great navigation... get an iPod.
If you want something which gives you truely amazing music on the go, get a Zen... believe me you won't be disappointed!
First Class MP3 Player November 23, 2008
Antaxios (UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I simply wanted an MP3 player with an FM Radio for the gym and travelling to work. I selected the Zen XFi 32GB as it had plenty of space for storage, and of course had the radio. It was very easy to set up and use, and even though my laptop disk drive was not the sort that works with the media, the documentation covered this and I used the link to the creative site to download the software. Installation was simple and I was able to rip CD's immediately. I could also import files from a previous player very quickly. The software supplied is (contrary to other reviews) blindingly simple to use, and does everything most people need.
I then changed laptops, re-installed the software and transfered the content of my Zen back to my laptop - simple.
The menu system and navigation buttons are much simpler than my wife's iPod. Sound quality is excellent and the supplied earphones comfortable and stable in the ear. As a bonus, they also prevent you annoying those around you with the sound cranked up).
If I had to choose again, I would buy the Zen every time.
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