Color Video and Audio in your Pocket: Creative ZEN 8GB MP3 Player

Posted by: Flare Rico on Monday, June 23rd, 2008

The Creative Zen 8GB MP3 Player, is packed with outstanding features. It offers great value and not only sounds fantastic, but also sports a brilliant color screen that makes watching photos and video a total joy.

It also offers a wide variety of desirable extras like an SD card expansion slot, an FM radio, and a voice recorder. Its slim, pocket-friendly design makes it very user-friendly.

Full Color, Compact Size

The Creative Zen 8GB MP3 Player has a four-way direction pad with a Select Button located just beside the huge screen. Its 2.5-inch TFT screen can be considered as a relatively large display compared to the other, more popular 8GB MP3 Players available in the market. Creative ZEN8GBBK Zen MP3 Player A 320×240 resolution ensures high quality videos and images on the Creative Zen 8GB MP3 Player.

But despite having an ample screen, the Zen is pleasantly compact. Imagine a 0.4-inch-thick black credit card: that’s what the Creative Zen 8GB MP3 Player looks like.

Its physical features are not the only things that are worth mentioning. It can support a whole lot of audio and video formats. That means you can easily download and play MP3, WMA, non-protected AAC, WAV, Audible 2,3 and 4 files, MJPEG and WMV9 on the Creative Zen 8G MP3 Player. And that’s not all. With conversion, you can also play MPEG4, DiVX and XVID files.

Aside from that, you can view JPEG images on this sleek MP3 player. It can support transcoded GIF, TIFF, PNG and BMP files as well. And don’t worry about having to convert files for endless hours. File conversion becomes an easy task with an application called the Zen Media Explorer.

In addition to all these amazing media capabilities, the Creative Zen 8GB Mp3 Player also features voice recording and an FM radio with autoscan and 32 presets. You can listen to your own voice, or different channels if you get tired of your audio files.

This cool gadget has an SD card expansion slot. This slot can actually take SDHC cards, which currently go up to 16GB in the full-size SD variety. Expandable memory means that you can store more audio or video files without having to spend as much for a larger capacity MP3 player.

It has a tested battery life of about 25 hours for audio and 5 hours for video. That’s a decent amount for such a slim, small MP3 player that features a lovely screen and blasts high quality sound.

Because of all the great features mentioned above, who wouldn’t want a Creative Zen 8GB Mp3 Player?