The Creative ZEN Stone

Advantages: Good battery life, easy to use, good value for money
Disadvantages: No screen, very small so potentially easy to lose

...I bought this mp3 player as I was tired of always changing round the songs on my ancient 128mb player. I knew from friends that Creative were a decent brand so I had a look on the internet to see what sort of prices we were talking, and I was pleasantly surprised. I found this 2GB version of the Zen Stone for £25 over a year ago and in my opinion that is great value for money. The battery life is very good and the fact that it recharges via USB is very useful. To transfer songs all you need to do is connect the player to your computer and drag songs into the player's folder.. its as easy as that! The controls are straight forward, nothing fancy but from my point of view, this is all that's needed. The fact that there is no screen may put some people off but this was not the case with me as you can set in to random and hope...

snedmuse 22.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Creative ZEN Stone with Speaker 2 GB

Creative Zen Stone Plus 2Gb

Advantages: Small, looks good, light, cool, FM radio, voice recorder
Disadvantages: Slow navigation and general responsivness

...The Creative Zen Stone Plus is the 2Gb upgrade of the basic Stone, and as well as the extra 1Gb of space it has a small LED screen for viewing track information and navigating content, a voice recorder, and FM radio. As a cheap, small, easily portable MP3 player with a large enough memory to stop me from listening to the same songs every 5 minutes this serves it's purpose very well. Pros: - it looks cool; - it holds around 500 tracks depending on their size; - it's tiny; - sound quality and volume are good (even with the radio) - software allows for easy drag-and-drop quick uploads (although once you upload from one folder you can't upload more tracks or browse any until the upload is finished) Cons: - you need to download the software from the internet, so if you don't have a connection you have to risk using windows...

pte22 08.12.2007 · Read review
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Review of Creative Zen Stone Plus 2Gb

Creative's pride the new Creative Zen

Advantages: Excellent audio, loads of features, price
Disadvantages: A bit sloppy video

...It?s really a heartening arrival from Creative planners and it seems this highly rated organization is getting their acts together. They have had lot of promise and Creative Zen, the latest arrival from their pipeline has established that they have the capacity to live up to the expectations. I always thought that user or customer feedback network is essential the success of products which have to cope of with such massive international competetion and their relentless endeavur to achieve technical perfection which can be provided to the international buyers at an affordable price. When I had the first had a look and a feel of Creative Zen it struck me that this was designed to compete with iPods at a reasonable level, being an iPod heater, Creative Zen has hardly meant a threat to the iPod community. In terms of technology and quality...

roktimdutta 09.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Creative ZEN

Go skimming with the Zen Stone!!

Advantages: A fantastic, stylish little MP3 player!
Disadvantages: None really, no screen, but you don't expect one on this type of player!

...So, It?s my first review in a while. My GCSE?s are on at the moment, and I?m right in the middle of them, but I thought I?d better right a quick review just to let you know I haven?t given up with Ciao! As soon as the GCSE?s are up I will be writing reviews as often as possible. And today, my review is on the fairly new Zen Stone MP3 player. I recently decided that I needed a new MP3 player. I had the original Creative Zen MP3 player. That was a fairly big and bulky player, that had 20GB of space for music, and it was a pretty good player. But I recently made the mistake of charging up the battery when it was nearly full already. This caused a problem with the battery, so now it would only play for about an hour on a medium volume, and even less if any louder. So I decided it was about time for a new player. My Dad had recently...

kingchris 10.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Creative ZEN Stone 1 GB

Creative zen

Advantages: reasonable price, looks good, dinky, good battery life, good sound quality.
Disadvantages: NONE:)

...i bought this product in may 2008 for about £80 very reasonable for a new 8gb player considering the ipod of that size and generation cost £120-150. I choose it because i had a muvo and loved the quality but out grew it and after battleing with numerous unbranded models i was sick and tired of rubbish. I am a stong hater of popular branded stuff such as the ipod as people i know have had ipods stolen and broken after a year or so (just after the garentee runs out i think) so i didn't look at the ipods and as me and my brother had both had amazing creative mp3 players with no problems (his zen touch has been running for 4 years and still going strong) i decided to look for a new creative player the mozaic in my opinion was the same thing with an ugly casing and the x-fi was a bit expensive so at the size i needed the zen was ideal...

leightheDalek 07.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Creative ZEN

Creative Zen Stone 1 GB - Stone Me!

Advantages: Cheap, Easy to use, Software highly intuitive
Disadvantages: No screen

...As far as budget mp3 players go, very few strike a balance between price and quality like the Creative Zen Stone. I bought mine for £24.99, and to this day I consider this one of my shrewdest buys. Although capacity is limited, this little piece of kit does everything you could want from an mp3 player. It's a very small piece of equipment (the size of my friend's iPod screen alone!); easy enough to unobtrusively slip into a pocket, and the additional accessories available such as the wrist strap make activities such as jogging a pleasure. The only gripe one could have is the lack of screen. However, the 'skip folder' button eliminates the need for one, making it easy to get to your desired song in no time at all. Customer Support for the Zen is also good. The website provides support for any queries and problems which may arise...

nineinchneals 29.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Creative ZEN Stone 1 GB

Creative Zen Stone (1GB, black)

Advantages: Simple , Good value for money
Disadvantages: No screen

...THE GOOD- Good price for first time byers , good choice of colours(6) good sound quality , easy to use has a mini usb port for syncing and charging. It supports Audible files and has a Skip Folder function that makes it easy to skip through groups of tracks. The bad: The Creative Zen Stone has no screen, no extra features, and no built-in clip like that of the iPod Shuffle. The rated battery life is unimpressive 10 hours although that is still a fair amount of listning time but compeard to others in its range e.g sony mp3 for £35 has a battery life of over 24hours. The bottom line: The Creative Zen Stone is a fantastic choice as a secondary MP3 player or for first timers on a budget who want a simple, great-sounding device with limited features and a bargain basement price tag. I am very happy with it for its price basically...

marias1241 17.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of Creative ZEN Stone 1 GB

Zen will creative be creative?

Advantages: High class processing rates
Disadvantages: Navigation and doldrum design again

...CREATIVE ZEN - MX Storage - 8 GB Release date - 05 - 2009 RRP ? 99.99 GBP ? Amazon website via the market-place option Zen will creative be creative? = There are not a lot of life patterns you can be sure of; but when it comes to Creatives new MP3 player launch, the same old design pops its mandatory blue-print into the box of blandness. Yes, I?m talking about the so called new ordinary MX. This years silently released epic from the Creative Lab team. The difference with this model is it?s quirky pointless OCD shift that plays with the navigation direction buttons rather than any major bold steps to bridge the gap with Apple?s flying machine the iPod. Creatives efforts are not with simplify design; but with different processors and technology that they feel capture their loyal client...

1st2thebar 04.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Creative ZEN MX

The Creative Zen is brilliant little device!

Advantages: Small, sleek and lots of features
Disadvantages: Buttons could be a bit tricky at first

...I received this device as a gift. I was a little unsure at first as I had never owned any kind of MP3 before. I was very pleasantly suprised to find it very easy to use and that it has unexpected features such as radio, photo and video. Personally I often use this on the train or the walk to work - the sound and video quality is excellent. I have often watched programs downloaded from BBC i Player and the quality is brilliant. The Zen comes with computer software which is very easy to install. You can also use i-tunes with this product, which is very handy. The only very slight gripe with this product is that I found the buttons a bit confusing at first... although saying that, I didn't read the instructions! This is a great alternative to an i-pod, personally I think it is better - easier to use and with more features....

twinkle321 29.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Creative ZEN

The Zen Stone; simplistic and original.

Advantages: Very cheap, very easy to use. Very durable and good quality music.
Disadvantages: very limited features. scatches easily

...This product is great for kids awaiting their first MP3 or runners, wanting their small, compact, durable gadget for exercise. My first impressions of using the Stone were that its quite easy to use. The only thing you need to remember is what the device is trying to tell you. You have to know which type of light on the device means what basically. Uploading songs is a doddle as it is used just like a memory stick where you can just drag your music files into the Drive that appears on 'My Computer' after you plug it in. I was looking for a small simplistic MP3 when i stumbled across this neat gadget at HMV one day. After having acquired the bulkier Zen Version M for day to day use, I found myself being very uneasy with it's mass and how fragile it might be if dropped or handled carelessly. Version M being Hard drive based while...

alexandersek 24.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of Creative ZEN Stone 1 GB