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Creative Zen V Plus 2 GB Portable Media Player (Black/Green) Buy this product from Amazon
Company : Creative Labs
List Price : $95.21
Amazon Price : $59.95
Used Price : $30.00
Average customer review : 3.5
 


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Features

  • Product Type - MP3 Player
  • Memory - 2GB
  • Battery - Rechargeable Li-ion Battery
  • Storage Capacity: 2GB (1,000 songs)

Product Description

Flaunt your independent sense of style with its tiny size and eye-catching design that will be the envy of your friends. Everything you need right at your fingertips. Carry your treasured music collection, funny video clips and family photo slideshows. Audio Playback Format - MP3, WMA, WAV and Audible Photo Format - JPEG Video Playback Format - Transcoded video format Syncs with and views Microsoft Outlook Contacts, Calendar & Tasks Personal video clips FM Radio View Photos and Album Art at any viewing angle Subscription service support and pay per download music Direct CD recording Built-in Voice Recorder Syncs contacts, calendar and tasks Skip free playback Plays music, ZENCast, and audiobooks Alarm and clock Customizable main menu System Requirements - Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 1 or higher) / XP 64-bit, Intel Pentium III 1GHz or AMD Duron 1GHz, 256MB RAM, USB 1.1 port (USB 2.0 recommended), 170MB free hard drive space (more for audio content storage) Dimensions - 1.7 x 2.7 x 0.6 inch Weight - 1.55 ounces

Customer reviews

Not bad. 4
This is my first MP3 player, so I have nothing to which to compare it. However, it does what I want it to: play the sound media that I put on it.

Downsides:
*Ear pieces are rather uncompfortable - but I imagine all are.
*The controls are tiny - I have to use my fingernail to change tracks.
*The charger is through USB, so you must have the computer on to charge it.
*The text doesn't wrap on the screen so for very long title, you must wait for it to scroll to the right for you.

Upsides:
*Despite what the included literature says, you DON'T need to install the irritating software. Instead, simply plug it in to a USB, and it gets treated like a drive - I like that very much, as it keeps down the amount of software I need.
*It is small (though not as small as the Nano, which is good. As it is the controls are too small for me.

not worth it to me 1
I bought 2 of these for my daughters last Christmas. Within 6 months my oldest daughter's screen had gone completely black & as of today my youngest daughter's is 3/4 of the way black. I would not recommend this item. It was going to cost more to have Creative repair them then to just buy new ones so I opted for the Sony. I'm much more pleased. I will not purchase another Creative MP3 player.

arrgghh...RESET nightmare 1
Eight months of constantly finding a pin to poke into the tiny reset hole, feeling like I'm doing progressivley major damage to delicate innards. Takes more, longer, deeper poking each time. Something's changing in there and that's not good! And every time it freezes up, which is all the time, you poke & poke, wait & wait for it to reboot, then you must re-navigate thru lots of tiny, unreadable, moving banners just to get back to your place. If you can't find your glasses, you're not quick enough to read the banners and then it shuts off. Plus, I got it for listening to audiobooks, and the tech reviews suggested this model cuz of its available bookmarking, but the bookmarks are mostly worthless because they're so awkward to use, both setting and accessing. And the radio, which I wanted so I could listen to a favorite program, is useless. Hardly any channels, nothing but static. I wish I had spent a little more and gotten a real mp3 player. This one's just junk.

Screen died after six months 1
This was a great product at a great price. I was even able to make it work with windows vista. However, the screen faded and went totally blank after less than six months use and apparently there is no fix. I would not reccomend the Creative Zen V Plus.

Creative Labs customer service 1
Greetings to all potential Creative customers,
I was greatly disturbed today when I found out the lack of help provided by the Creative Labs Company to my wife when her 30 GB Zen MP3 player failed to run properly. In my opinion, it's actions like this that are ruining companies and our country's economy. Due to this company's inaction today, they have lost a once satisfied customer. Once being more than happy to promote this product, now we will be sure to divulge to our friends and relatives of this company's lack of helpfulness. My wife asked specific questions of the technical advisors in the e-mail form which were ignored; she was given a form letter, was referred to the website, and was told that she would be charged by the company for further help. She expressly requested the guidance of upper management from the technical support specialist, and this request was ignored, proving that Creative Labs is unwilling to provide any kind of meaningful help and does not value customer service. The menial help that the highly flawed website provided was a firmware application that caused the device to completely fail, and then the last piece of friendly advice that we received was that we should purchase a new one from the company's website. We were given an application that made our expensive device inoperable, and for that, I will never purchase another Creative product again. We have both been faithful Creative Labs buyers for years, and my wife had multiple friends and relatives buy their products based on her recommendations. It is with deep regret that I inform all that Creative Labs customer service has proven to be a bitter disappointment and for this, they have lost my family's business.


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