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| Brand: Creative
Category: CE
Buy New: £84.05
New (13) Used (2) from £75.65
Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 295
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
MPN: 70 PF2420 00 1F 5
Model: 70 PF2420 00 1F 5
EAN: 5390660158551
ASIN: B001C9RY34
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Unique Creative X-Fi technology | | • | EP-830 in-ear earphones included | | • | 2.5" vibrant screen display | | • | SD card slot | | • | Builtin FM radio & voice recorder |
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Product Description
The sound of perfection. The ZEN X-Fi has been designed by Creative's audio experts to deliver the pleasure of pure music listening. Inside its stylish, glossy case we've added Xtreme Fidelity technology, which restores crystal clarity to your MP3s and takes all your music to a higher level. To help you get the most from this amazing player we have included top-quality in-ear earphones. The 8GB storage will hold as many as 4,000 songs* and the SD card slot adds extra capacity. The ZEN X-Fi has a large, full-colour screen to let you enjoy videos and photos, and a built-in speaker so you can share your music. With a built-in FM radio and voice recorder for extra versatility, this is a fantastic player for anyone who puts audio quality first. *Based on four-minute tracks at 64kbps in WMA.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 21 more reviews...
 First Class MP3 Player November 23, 2008
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.
Best MP3 Player I found in ages November 21, 2008
This has got to be the best MP3 player I found in ages. I did a bit of research first to upgrade from my Sony 6gb NW-A1000.
This one had so many more features and just seem to make sense based on the price. One thing I was not sure of was the price, but I am glad that I bought it now.
The unit is very well put together and operation using the buttons on front are very easy to use. The menu system is simple and allows you to get to things real fast.
The headphones are of a good quality and at this point I have not needed to replace them with anything more expensive which may or may not given me better sound.
Loading Music onto it was also important to me. I work with computers day in and day out but still I like things to be simple and intuitive, and Not requiring you to load all sorts of silly software.
So lucky here, you can load the software that comes with it (which you may need to do if you want to put any Videos on it) or, if like me you are using Vista and Window Media player, just plug it in, let Windows find it and then click on Sync and away it goes. After a short while all your music is on your Xen.
This I like as I like to keep my music in MP3 format for maximum portability and not have them coded into some other format that just works on that device (Apple & iPods!!)
 External speakers November 14, 2008
0 out of 18 found this review helpful
Has anyone had experience of using the Creative Zen X-Fi 8Gb with external speakers. My wife wishes to use speakers in a dance studio with disabled people and ideally requires remote use.
Same review for two models? November 14, 2008
0 out of 16 found this review helpful
Am thinking of buying a Zen X-fi8GB so I browse the different models and also look at the customer reviews and what do I find? The same review for the 8GB as the 16GB. This makes me feel that the whole purpose of a customer review loses its credibility. It gives me absolutely no confidence. What I want from a customer review is a good and honest opinion about that one particular model.
 Terrible compared to my zen November 14, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have a creative zen 8gb it is amazing easy to use, excellent pic quality and the sound is really good too. Well my dad bought an 8gb X-fi and asked me to put some films on it for him firstly i couldn't work out how to do this and had to look for instructions on the net and secondly it took ages, the software i use for the zen uses DIVX convertor and is really quick you just select the films you want from a list and thats it.
The X-fi when you try and choose the folder the films are in it takes ages to show any i have 200 in the folder for some reason it trys to load them all up into its own window, so i had to cut and paste a few onto the desktop and then try, it still took 20mins for 3 films just to show them then when i chose them for transfer it took nearly 2 hours to convert and transfer onto the player this is stupid on my zen i can do 10 films in an hour.
So if i was you i would but the zen for less and get alot more luck with it and not spend your whole day loading stuff onto it.
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