Player Blog Category Archives: Creative
March 22, 2005
New Creative Zen
Creative has quietly added a new player to its lineup, the Creative Zen. Not Zen Micro, Zen Xtra, Zen Touch, Zen NX or Zen USB 2.0. Just the Creative Zen.
Essentially it's a Zen Micro that has been enlarged to accomodate a 20GB drive (compared with the 6GB max capacity of the Zen Micro). The looks and the controls appear to be the same as the Zen Micro.
Creative has not listed the dimensions, retail price or when it will be available as of yet. [Via Engadget]
Looks like the Creative folks are starting to listen to folks that are confused with all the different iterations of the Zen player and they are going back to their roots, sort of. Give 'em a thumbs up for keeping the Zen Micro design, gotta' wonder if it's available in anything besides black though.
Posted by: Jeff Seale at March 23, 2005 12:30 PMAnyone have information that will allow "drag and drop" of files between a Creative Zen Touch and a PC (Media XP OS)?
Posted by: Hoaxster at May 31, 2005 02:05 PMyes it will be available in black and *white*. I understand why they did this. First of all, it costs a lot to just produce all these different colors, but they do it to compete with ipod. This is also a 20gb player that will cost $308 roughly so people for some strange reason want the 6gb and all the small ones so they only produce the two colors and sell them that way. I am glad to see creative ACTUALLY making a player that can't sink the titanic. All their players are so big compared to the ipod and other machines. They need to compete on a molecular level....go Creative Zen!
Posted by: Ed at June 9, 2005 09:49 PM