Upcoming 16GB Zen w./ SD card slot

[Step666]

[By way of Gizmodo]

Details of Creative's new 'Zen' flash-based PMP have appeared on Amazon.


Product description
Bring your media with you wherever you roam with the Creative Zen 8GB player. Watch 32 hours of videos, enjoy up to 2,000 of your favorite songs or share hundreds of photos with your friends. And do it all on a device that's about the width of a credit card.

Design
The Zen sports a 2.5-inch TFT color display with 320 x 240-pixel resolution and support for up to 16.7 million colors. This razor sharp display is packaged in a device that weighs just 2.1 ounces and measures 3.26 x 2.16 x .44 inches (W x H x D). The internal battery powers the Zen for up to 25 hours of continuous audio playback and up to five hours of continuous video playback. Use the Zen's SD slot to expand your portable media library with music, photos and videos stored on your SD card. There's also a handy built-in microphone for capturing notes on the go.

Features
Load up up your favorite songs, as well as your album art, and get going with the Zen. The device supports iTunes Plus tracks from the iTunes store and MP3 and WMA tracks. Subscription and pay-per-download music services are supported, as well. Discover, save, and play millions of songs when subscribing to services such as Yahoo Music Unlimited and Napster To Go. You can even tune into your favorite stations with the Zen's FM radio. The radio allows you to save up to 34 presets.

The Zen has you covered when it comes to video, too. The device supports MJPEG, WMV9 and--with transcoding--MPEG1 and 2, MPEG4-SP, DivX 4 and 5, and XviD. Enjoy purchased or rented movies and TV shows from online services such as Amazon Unbox and Walmart.com. Watch home videos. Even load your Tivo To Go movies and TV shows onto your Zen.

Additional features include a clock and alarm function, volume restriction, eight equalizer settings, and a USB hard drive mode, which allows you to drag and drop files directly to and from your Zen. The Zen can also function as a handy organizer, allowing you to synchronize with Microsoft Outlook and display your contacts, calendar, and tasks.



And lists the following features:

• Credit card-sized MP3 player with music, video, photos and FM radio.
• Watch 32 hours of videos, enjoy up to 2,000 of your favorite songs or share hundreds of photos with your friends.
• 16.7 million color support razor sharp display. 2.5" TFT display allows you to view the screen from different angles.
• Use the SD slot to expand your portable media library with music, photos and videos stored on your SD card.
• Enjoy purchased or rented movies and TV shows from online services like Amazon Unbox. Event load Tivo To Go movies

edit: the links to Amazon no longer work, the product pages seemingly having been pulled.


edit#2: [Both via Engadget - article 1, article 2]

It seems that the 'Zen' (yes, that's the name, not the 'Zen [whatever]') has now appeared on Creative's site - link.
And it has also been reviewed - link.

[Nazgulled]

Looks really nice, and 16million colors? If the screen is as good as it looks... and flash based? Looks pretty good to me with all the features listed there.

[saints]

Shame about the battery life, half of the d2

here we go again

[Step666]

Yeah and a shame how the 8GB one was listed at $200, as opposed to $186 for a 4GB D2.

Both players have their pluses and minuses, so please lets not try and turn this into a penis-measuring contest.

[saints]

Originally Posted by Step666

Yeah and a shame how the 8GB one was listed at $200, as opposed to $186 for a 4GB D2.

Both players have their pluses and minuses, so please lets not try and turn this into a penis-measuring contest.

Cowon=quality

its XXX inches by the way

[Step666]

Originally Posted by saints

its XXX inches by the way

You're fooling no-one.

[BBD]

Where X=0, one might find saints......



Although, the potentially funniest penis-contest may be between Gizmodo and Epizenter....

Originally Posted by Bitchfest

Gizmodo, this news was provided to you by epiZENter.net. Please update your links to reflect this.

Thanks,

Michael
epiZENter.net

[saints]

Originally Posted by BBD

Where X=0, one might find saints......

I like this one better

[BBD]

Nerd Alert!!!!!

[LordMattman]

People over at clixhere have been dumbfounded by this and are dropping their clix dreams already for this player... an 8gb clix2 does it for me.
I don't really like the look of this one.

[saints]

Originally Posted by LordMattman

People over at clixhere have been dumbfounded by this and are dropping their clix dreams already for this player... an 8gb clix2 does it for me.
I don't really like the look of this one.

What has that to with penis size

I guess its interesting that we are getting flash capacity close to our favorite hard drive players, considering Toshiba have a 16gb sdhc coming next month and a 32 sdhc early next year. Its exiting time ahead if your rich that is

All of the above and drag and drop

[Step666]

Originally Posted by saints

I guess its interesting that we are getting flash capacity close to our favorite hard drive players, considering Toshiba have a 16gb sdhc coming next month and a 32 sdhc early next year. Its exiting time ahead if your rich that is

Yeah, the $3000 for the 32GB card is what really 'excites' me (apologies, crap attempt to keep this thread penis-related...).


@BBD: where did you get that picture of me from?

[saints]

Actually step is about us$700, they will come down

http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/22/t...gb-sdhc-cards/

[Step666]

Oh, even better.
Last time I looked it was way more than that...

[saints]

Theres a review posted, this baby looks pretty good, wide support of codecs

http://www.popularmechanics.com/blog...s/4221075.html

[pachinkoman]

Hmmm looks yummy, I need a new player about now....

[BBD]

I love the fact it uses buttons instead of some silly touch-screen/clicky-wheel GUI. Hopefully, the price will come down in relatively short order. $300 seems a bit steep.

Originally Posted by Step666

@BBD: where did you get that picture of me from?

Google was my very bestest friend: "Nerd alert Step" and "I'm feeling Lucky."

[Step666]

Originally Posted by saints

Theres a review posted, this baby looks pretty good, wide support of codecs

http://www.popularmechanics.com/blog...s/4221075.html

Already way ahead of you (see the bottom of the first post).

Originally Posted by BBD

I love the fact it uses buttons instead of some silly touch-screen/clicky-wheel GUI. Hopefully, the price will come down in relatively short order. $300 seems a bit steep.

I don't know, $300 is pretty good, it is 16GB after all.
In fact, I'd be very happy if they were selling that over here for that price...

Originally Posted by BBD

Google was my very bestest friend: "Nerd alert Step" and "I'm feeling Lucky."

Damnit.
I've gotta stop tagging my pictures so meticulously

[max-power]

From the looks of the reviews this seems like a great player.

[Step666]

You should look at the Sansa View as well.

The downsides are that the screen is .1" smaller and it uses MicroSD cards as opposed to full-sized SD but, conversely, will definitely support MicroSDHC cards, which means up to 32GB added on and it's a full $100 cheaper for the 16GB version.
Plus it's prettier, which is what really matters

[Step666]

In a slight update, the prices of the 4 and 16GB versions of the Zen have dropped, from $150 to $130 and $300 to $250 respectively.
The 8GB model has stayed at $200 though.

Still not quite as cheap as the Sansa View but certainly a step in the right direction.

Link.