If you’re interested in keeping Creative in the PMP market, the best you can do is purchase a ZEN X-Fi2, which is now available at Amazon. It’s a touchscreen PMP without the excitement being offered by the upcoming Zii EGG with the stemcell software. An X-Fi2 starts at $129.99. This is the 8GB model. The model [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 24, 2008
We at PMPToday have covered enough strange-looking gadgets in a little over a year of being online but Creative takes the cake this week with the recent announcement of the Zen Moo. The MP3 player is shaped like a cartoon cow’s head and will be sold only in China, thank goodness. The player will come [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 3, 2008
In Ukraine, Yushchenko may be known as the big boss but in China it’s the new kid in the MP4 player world coming out with three adorably designed PMPs. Let’s start off with the AY-P99. Sure it takes a lot of its aesthetic features from Creative’s Zen Stone but it’s frankly too pretty to be called [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 12, 2008
Nothingbutcreative, a cool new site we’ve heard about just now has a review of the newly announced Zen X-Fi. They have a test unit and they took their time unboxing the PMP and taking very, very good impressionistic photos of the X-Fi player from Creative and a video, which we embedded below this post. We [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Who needs a dozen roses when you can get iPod bling from iLuv on Valentine’s Day? The i80 series of glittering earphones and cases go with all iPhone, iPod, and portable media players. You can choose to get the i83 Crystal In-Ear earphones with in-line volume control for $39.99. Then there’s the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 7, 2007
Consumer electronics need not be expensive during the holiday season. Refuribished Creative mp3 players and media players are selling for really low prices at Creative.com, starting at $20 for a 1GB Zen Stone. Other models being sold include the following: Zen V Plus 1GB for $80 - $50 clearance = $30. Zen V Plus [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 20, 2007
Creative need not worry about being pushed out of the portable player market any time soon as it was recently discovered that it was clone-wrthy, too. Yes, none other than the Zen Stone Plus was imitated almost feature for feature by Chinese company Yoto. There’s an FM tuner and voice recorder besides MP3 playing. To [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 11, 2007
Creative has ceased production of its Vision M PMP model, but it’s not too late yet for fans who miss the form factor of ZVM. A Chinese manufacturer has just come out with 2GB MP4 player with the exact same design as ZVM but only in a metal casing. We don’t expect Creative to [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 31, 2007
Creative has had it with the iPod. Everyone knows, or most everyone who has intimate knowledge of the MP3 player and PMP industry, that the interface Apple iPods use are patented by Creative. Creative help create the portable music player monster that is the iPod and it may be in the position to kill it [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Creative’s new player is simpmly called ZEN, and it looks like most other PMPs only with more, well, finesse. It’s a good successor to the chubby Zen V Plus. The wider 2.5-inch 320 x 240-pixel, 16.7m million-color screen, though nothing special, is still a step up for Creative. ZEN supports WMV, Divx, Xvid, MJPEG, and [...]
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