- AAC Playback: No
- Audio Line-In Interface: Yes
- Bluetooth: No
- Built-In Microphone: Yes
- Built-In Radio: Yes
- Colour Display: Yes
- Compact Flash Card: No
- Depth in mm: 15.9
- Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB): No
- Direct Radio Recording: No
- Direct TV Recording: No
- Display Technology: OLED Display
- Height (mm): 67.5
- Horizontal Resolution in Pixel: 128
- MP3 Playback: Yes
- MPEG4 Playback: No
- Memory Stick: No
- Multimedia Card: No
- Music Playtime in h: 15
- Number of Display Colours: 262.144
- OGG Playback: No
- Photo Viewer: Yes
- Screen Size in Inches: 1.5
- Secure Digital Card: No
- Smart Media Card: No
- Storage Capacity in MB: 1024
- Storage Medium: Built-In Memory
- Touchscreen: No
- Vertical Resolution in Pixel: 128
- Video Playtime in h: unknown
- W-LAN Connection: No
- WAV Playback: Yes
- WMA Playback: Yes
- WMV Playback: No
- Weight in Grams: 43.5
- Width (mm): 43.5
- xD-Picture Card: No
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
Creative's Zen V Plus is the symbol of style and object of desire. It has a glossy black finish, with subtle color highlights and a neat rounded shape that fits comfortably in the hand. It can store from hundreds to thousands of songs and photos and includes an FM radio with 32 presets. A bright color screen and Creative's famous interface make it easy to use, and it supports multiple audio formats including MP3, WMA and Audible Audio. The Zen V Plus can record straight to WMA without a PC, and it has a built-in microphone for voice notes. It can also play video clips. Despite its tiny size it can store and share hundreds to thousands of songs and photos!
Not only do you get 15 hours of battery life on a single charge, it also has USB 2.0 which means you can move your music and photos on and off your player really quickly. Other features include the ability to record direct to MP3 without the need for a PC, a built in mic for dictation, an alarm clock and it can even be used to carry your important documents or files around!!!
Your perfectly formed Zen V comes complete with ear phones, neck strap, a pouch, USB Cable, MP3 recording cable, Installation CD and Quick Start Guide, and is backed up by a year's guarantee.
Product Description
Creative's Zen V Plus is the symbol of style and object of desire. It has a glossy black finish, with subtle colour highlights and a neat rounded shape that fits comfortably in the hand. Available in three memory sizes, it can store from hundreds to thousands of songs and photos and includes an FM radio with 32 presets. A bright colour screen and Creative's famous interface make it easy to use, and it supports multiple audio formats including MP3, WMA and Audible Audio. The Zen V Plus can record straight to...
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
99 of 100 people found the following review helpful
This is a truly great piece of technology. Everything just works as you expect it to, and want it to.
I owned an original Zen which I very much liked, but sadly lost. I then owned a Sony NWHD 40GB MP3 player. I hated this from day 1, because everything about it was all so unintuitive. Sony are a great brand but sadly they seem more concerned about DRM than actually making the device usable. Sony also force you to use this terriblly clunky software to load tracks onto your device (and you cant retrieve them from device to PC).
Words cant describe how utterly moronic this whole process is.
But not with the Zen V Plus!
Use Creatives own software which intergrates into explorer, or even better, simply drag and drop MP3s into explorer without even installing Creatives software.
The interface on the device is a breeze, and video quality is also good, but as the maximum storage is 4GB on upper end models, I find youll just use it as an MP3 player because of the storage limitations, and play a few videos when you first get it just for the novelty value.
Another great thing about this device is the minute size. The images rarely depict how really small it is, but its about the size of a box of tic-tac sweets. Brilliant!
Take note of the image on this Amazon page. The device comes in three colors, 1GB is orange, 2GB is green and 4GB is blue. This page relates to the 1GB model, which ought to be orange (but the pic shows blue). Hardly a showstopper, but its worth noting.
Id love to see the ZEN V plus with larger capacities, but since its based on solid state storage, rather than hard drive, this may be some time.
If an 8GB model came out tommorrow Id buy it there and then.
Creative are a great great brand and I was a fool to ever try Sony. As for iPods: follow the masses if you want, but realise they arent as good as people would have you believe.
So Im clearly a fan, but does it have any downsides?
Well, the headphones that come with it are pretty poor. Youll want to replace those as theyre a bit tacky and not very good.
The only other thing is that the device looks a bit cheap and plasticky. It doesnt have the slick look of the iPod, Zen have clearly made it look fun rather than 'sexy'. Since its in my pocket most the time this doesnt matter to me. Id love to see a pure polished chrome version though, that would be superb.
Finally, Im a windows user. I dont know what support is like for Linux or Apple, But I guess if youre an Apple user, you wouldnt hesistate to buy an iPod anyway.
Summary: A 5 Star product, without hesitation.
I owned an original Zen which I very much liked, but sadly lost. I then owned a Sony NWHD 40GB MP3 player. I hated this from day 1, because everything about it was all so unintuitive. Sony are a great brand but sadly they seem more concerned about DRM than actually making the device usable. Sony also force you to use this terriblly clunky software to load tracks onto your device (and you cant retrieve them from device to PC).
Words cant describe how utterly moronic this whole process is.
But not with the Zen V Plus!
Use Creatives own software which intergrates into explorer, or even better, simply drag and drop MP3s into explorer without even installing Creatives software.
The interface on the device is a breeze, and video quality is also good, but as the maximum storage is 4GB on upper end models, I find youll just use it as an MP3 player because of the storage limitations, and play a few videos when you first get it just for the novelty value.
Another great thing about this device is the minute size. The images rarely depict how really small it is, but its about the size of a box of tic-tac sweets. Brilliant!
Take note of the image on this Amazon page. The device comes in three colors, 1GB is orange, 2GB is green and 4GB is blue. This page relates to the 1GB model, which ought to be orange (but the pic shows blue). Hardly a showstopper, but its worth noting.
Id love to see the ZEN V plus with larger capacities, but since its based on solid state storage, rather than hard drive, this may be some time.
If an 8GB model came out tommorrow Id buy it there and then.
Creative are a great great brand and I was a fool to ever try Sony. As for iPods: follow the masses if you want, but realise they arent as good as people would have you believe.
So Im clearly a fan, but does it have any downsides?
Well, the headphones that come with it are pretty poor. Youll want to replace those as theyre a bit tacky and not very good.
The only other thing is that the device looks a bit cheap and plasticky. It doesnt have the slick look of the iPod, Zen have clearly made it look fun rather than 'sexy'. Since its in my pocket most the time this doesnt matter to me. Id love to see a pure polished chrome version though, that would be superb.
Finally, Im a windows user. I dont know what support is like for Linux or Apple, But I guess if youre an Apple user, you wouldnt hesistate to buy an iPod anyway.
Summary: A 5 Star product, without hesitation.
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Very small and very cool. As an mp3 player, audio quality is great. Colour screen is bright but tiny; not the ideal for viewing photos unless you had miniature viewing in mind when you framed the shot etc. Don't get me wrong: I like it, but I do have two gripes.
Gripe number 1 is minor: the player comes with 200 MB of rubbish loaded on it - really terrible audio tracks composed by someone on a cheap Casio keyboard, by the sound of it! Plus video adverts for the player... erm, I've just bought one, so really no need to advertise to me, thanks. Also, somewhat bizarrely, while plugged into your USB port, the player goes active every time you type a new address into the web browser on your PC. Call me paranoid, but what is it doing?
Then there is the transcoded video format. Yes, you can convert pretty much any video clip format into the format required for the player using the software provided. But the file size typically becomes much larger, even though the video itself gets shrunk to 128x96 pixels. An example: I have a 4-minute wmv video clip at 640x480 that is 10 MB. Converting it to play on the Zen V+ creates a 50 MB avi file - five times the original file size, even though the video is now 128x96 pixels, i.e. 1/25th of the original frame size. This is just dumb! And there are no options to reduce the frame rate or audio quality used in the transcode conversion. So as an audio player, great; for videos, perhaps wait for the next generation. Or maybe Creative can come up with better software for the video conversion?
Gripe number 1 is minor: the player comes with 200 MB of rubbish loaded on it - really terrible audio tracks composed by someone on a cheap Casio keyboard, by the sound of it! Plus video adverts for the player... erm, I've just bought one, so really no need to advertise to me, thanks. Also, somewhat bizarrely, while plugged into your USB port, the player goes active every time you type a new address into the web browser on your PC. Call me paranoid, but what is it doing?
Then there is the transcoded video format. Yes, you can convert pretty much any video clip format into the format required for the player using the software provided. But the file size typically becomes much larger, even though the video itself gets shrunk to 128x96 pixels. An example: I have a 4-minute wmv video clip at 640x480 that is 10 MB. Converting it to play on the Zen V+ creates a 50 MB avi file - five times the original file size, even though the video is now 128x96 pixels, i.e. 1/25th of the original frame size. This is just dumb! And there are no options to reduce the frame rate or audio quality used in the transcode conversion. So as an audio player, great; for videos, perhaps wait for the next generation. Or maybe Creative can come up with better software for the video conversion?
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Bought this as a small present and very impressed with just how easy it was to use, in about 5 minutes I had worked out how to navigate around all the menus and another 5 minutes to work out how to upload music onto the player. You don't have to install the software either, its detected by WinXP straight away as soon as you plug it in a USB port and then you can access it just like any other device
I left it playing a repeat loop with some music I uploaded to it after charging the battery to full straight out of the box, and it was still playing the next morning over 7 hours later with headphones connected sp left it playing until the battery was totally discharged and charged it back to fully charged in less than 2 hours via the USB port
Well worth it, and better built than an iPod without using the clunky software that must be installed, you do not have to install ANY software with this player, just plug it into any USB port and thats it, assuming you have WinXP or above that is, Win98 will need drivers installing
I left it playing a repeat loop with some music I uploaded to it after charging the battery to full straight out of the box, and it was still playing the next morning over 7 hours later with headphones connected sp left it playing until the battery was totally discharged and charged it back to fully charged in less than 2 hours via the USB port
Well worth it, and better built than an iPod without using the clunky software that must be installed, you do not have to install ANY software with this player, just plug it into any USB port and thats it, assuming you have WinXP or above that is, Win98 will need drivers installing
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Not perfect but look at the price
Bought this used and have been very pleased with it. Haven't managed to fast forward in a track (if this is possible). Read more
Published 10 months ago by vamatthews
Very Good
I bought this for my daughter and she finds it easy to use.
The quality is fantastic and it even has a safety metre for the volume so she can't deafen herslef listening... Read more
The quality is fantastic and it even has a safety metre for the volume so she can't deafen herslef listening... Read more
Published on 13 April 2010 by John A. Macleod
1gb is plenty
I have an ecleptic range of genres and i am able to stick them all on, but for videos go for 4gb+. although it can play vids there there isn't quite enough space for music aswell. Read more
Published on 3 Nov 2009 by Alberic Hall
inexpensive n great player
wel zen v+ is really good player... very small n inexpensive. far better then sony NW players.
Published on 13 July 2008 by G. Singh
Not worth the money
My husband bought this item for me for my birthday last year. Looks good, but could only be charged via pc and so useless for holidays. Read more
Published on 19 May 2008 by H. Robson
not impressed
Tried this as a christmas present for my son. after a frustrating week of trying to get the computer to recognise the device, can only assume it was broken. Read more
Published on 2 Feb 2008 by S. Pitman
Fantastic Product
I have had two "stick" MP3 players before, one of which broke. This player is way better than both of them. Read more
Published on 16 Dec 2007 by Anonymous
Another Creative mp3 disaster.....
Having had 2 'zen vision' mp3 players pack up (luckily under warranty )
this unit has now given up refuses to charge up, creative customer support are hopeless and predictably... Read more
this unit has now given up refuses to charge up, creative customer support are hopeless and predictably... Read more
Published on 5 Dec 2007 by R. facer
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