Creative Zen Touch Arrives

Creative's latest device, the Zen Touch, has made it to the general public. Nomadness users are reporting that they're receiving the units they ordered from Creative's online store.

User jlbrach has a few initial thoughts on the new Zen Touch:

• the unit is about the same size as an ipod for comparison,somewhat thicker and alittle heavier
  
• the unit is dramatically more attractive and sleek..the clunkiness of prior zen units is gone
  
• the unit performs well and so far the most impressive thing to me is the hard drive noise that i found so annoying on the older zen units seems to be gone....i can only speak of the one day of use but it appears to be far quieter and thus for me at least more enjoyable

there are a few negatives although they can probably be fixed with a firmware upgrade:

• i cannot seem to get the unit to open the menu page when it starts up...it defaults to playlist and unlike the older units there does not seem to be an option to change this
  
• when you scroll through the lists of albums etc. you cannot go all the way from a-z and then continue around to a....you have to scroll all the way back up to a....a small issue perhaps but one that i had gotten used to
• the zen extra allowed you to press and hold the back button and be brought to the now playing...on the touch you have to go back to the menu and then click to get to now playing..again a small but annoying issue

all in all i am very impressed with the new unit...in fact if these small problems were ironed out and a larger capacity player were to be offered i would give it a big thumbs up!

Related Links:
Creative Zen Touch Available Sooner Than Expected
New Creative Zen Touch Available for Pre-Order
Creative Zen Touch First Look

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