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Technical Details
- 8GB capacity stores up to 2000 MP3 songs
- 2.5-inch 16.7 million colour screen and high quality Creative EP-830 earphones
- Play music and video and view photos
- Expandable capacity via SD card slot
- Includes built-in speaker, FM tuner and personal memo recorder
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
Experience your MP3 music as the artist originally intended with the Creative Zen X-Fi--the first player to restore the quality of compressed music with award-winning X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity Audio technology. Indulge in rich, crystal-clear audio when you listen to your music, as the detail that's lost during file compression is now beautifully restored and played through premium-quality, noise-isolatling EP-830 earphones.
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Sleek Beauty
A pocket-sized player that weighs a mere 69 grams, the Zen X-Fi sports attractive curves with a graceful finish. Immerse yourself in the brilliant 2.5-inch TFT screen with 16.7 million colours as you watch your movies and view your pictures.
Built with X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity Audio technology, the player lets you experience the very essence of music perfection as you listen to audio in crystal clear clarity. Hear your music the way it was always meant to be heard. Plus, the included EP-830 earphones provide optimum comfort with excellent noise-isolation capability.
The ZEN X-Fi also includes a built-in speaker so you can share your music, wherever you are, without the need for an additional speaker system.
More Content, Endless Enjoyment
Listen to your music in multiple supported formats, such asMP3, WMA, and (non-protected) AAC (m4a) from iTunes Plus. Download Creative Centrale to rip, transfer, and manage your media content easily. Enjoy the ultimate collection of free video and audio podcast channels on www.zencast.com. Manage all of your favorite subscriptions with Zencast Organiser, and experience the best of the free-to-share formats available.
Tired of your own music? Switch to the FM radio. The 32 station presets let you switch stations with ease. Increase the size of your portable media library with an SD or SDHC card. Click here to view the supported cards.. Transfer your files easily to enjoy more videos, music, and photos in your player.
(If you need more than 8 GB of internal memory, the Zen X-Fi also comes in 16 GB and 32 GB versions).
Packed with Features
Record your important meetings or personal audio memos with the integrated voice recorder. Set audio effects to enhance your overall music listening experience. Choose from eight EQ presets or customize your own EQ and enhance it all with bass boost and smart volume controls.
You can use your ZEN X-Fi as am alarm clock and start the day on the right note with your very own alarm tone. You can even set the alarm for any day of the week.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
I first found this Mp3 player/video player thing when I was looking for something that was well constructed and designed that WAS NOT AN IPOD as I really do not like the whole "sync with Itunes" thing. The Zen X-Fi is all three of these things and much more. For starters it is very solidly made, I drop it all of the time just for fun and it won't break. Also the interface is very pleasing with a choice of themes, also if you upload pictures onto it then you can use any of them as a background which you cannot do on an Ipod. It plays music, which is good for an Mp3 player and the X-Fi clarifier works very well with the provided headphones which also are excellent. I read somewhere that the provided headphones are worth £40! Video playback is very good and I have not found a format that the X-Fi cannot play as if the video is in the wrong format then there is an automatic converter built into the "Itunes like" main hub. "Creative Centrale" the actual program which puts the music onto the player works very well importing/burning/transfering to the player. The only problem I have had with the X-Fi is the buttons. There are 9 directional buttons where four would be just fine, as I have never really had a need to go diagonal on a vertical list of songs.
Overall this is a brilliant player that I would throughly recommend.
P.S. Don't be put off by the lightness of the X-Fi, I thought that I had been conned and had been sent a plastic box!! It's very light!
Overall this is a brilliant player that I would throughly recommend.
P.S. Don't be put off by the lightness of the X-Fi, I thought that I had been conned and had been sent a plastic box!! It's very light!
29 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Well, having owned all the previous Creative players, I find myself with the new one. Now, I didn't own the previous version because my Z V plus lasted for quite a while until I dropped it, but my wife owns the Creative Zen.
The thing is, the X-Fi is good, like most of Creative stuff. However, I don't see that it adds much relative to the previous model. Same functionality, a couple more buttons, why?
Other than that, the internal headphones are an improvement. The sound is good. The ripping software is a bit slower than Windows Media Player and for some reason sometimes fails to rip the whole album, but you can still rip with Windows software and then transfer as usual.
Having the memory card is great and the smart crystalliser means you won't blow your ears out when you turn the volume to the maximum.
So yes, I still like Creative, but in this release, it seems they went for design rather than functionality relative to their previous models, nothing wrong with that as it still very reasonably priced.
One negative point though after extensive use. Sometimes, of its own will, the player will synchronize with windows media player, transferring a whole lot of files I don't want it to. And when it transfers songs that are already in the player, it does not overwrite them but duplicate them, which is a pain.
Otherwise, it's great, sounds great and looks great.
The thing is, the X-Fi is good, like most of Creative stuff. However, I don't see that it adds much relative to the previous model. Same functionality, a couple more buttons, why?
Other than that, the internal headphones are an improvement. The sound is good. The ripping software is a bit slower than Windows Media Player and for some reason sometimes fails to rip the whole album, but you can still rip with Windows software and then transfer as usual.
Having the memory card is great and the smart crystalliser means you won't blow your ears out when you turn the volume to the maximum.
So yes, I still like Creative, but in this release, it seems they went for design rather than functionality relative to their previous models, nothing wrong with that as it still very reasonably priced.
One negative point though after extensive use. Sometimes, of its own will, the player will synchronize with windows media player, transferring a whole lot of files I don't want it to. And when it transfers songs that are already in the player, it does not overwrite them but duplicate them, which is a pain.
Otherwise, it's great, sounds great and looks great.
44 of 46 people found the following review helpful
.....you'll be sensible to buy one of these.
I got to the point where phones and the PSP just don't cut it. Having a jack of all trades device tends to mean that it does lots of things and it doesn't do them very well.
This is my first step away from "multi function devices". I don't care what additional things this does, I want it to play music and play it well.
It does....exceptionally well. The X-Fi clarity is as good as that you get with Creative's sound cards. For anybody who has fitted an X-Fi extreme card, there is a big advance in sound quality. It's the same with this. Playlists aren't particularly easy to set up on the player itself but it can be done through the software provided too. There are changeable themes including the all black one in the pics and the grey and orange one depicted for the 8gb model on creative's site. Photo's can be made in to wallpapers. The firmware doesn't seem to stall and responds instantly.
It has a graphic equaliser and separate x-fi enhancement.
Sound quality is a real 10 out of 10. Listening to Angel by Massive Attack proves the capability of the player and the headphones - no distortion at full volume and with bass boost and increased bass on the EQ. There was also no flattening out of the sound. It stays rich and balanced at full volume. You won't need to change headphones unless you have a real dislike of in the ear noise cancelling types. The supplied ones cost £30 by themselves. Frequency response seems to be about 8-20,000 which gives the sound it's richness.
Full volume is reassuringly loud. I'd had this problem with Sony Ericsson Walkman phones that were too quiet. I'd changed headphones, used CX400's etc but the sound just wasn't there nor was the volume.
This has an optional volume retriction which you can set yourself.
Charging is done via USB so you will need to have a PC....or maybe a PS3. Transferring files is not too bad on a slow PC - I'll update that comment when I've used my own and tried out other things like video playback.
Essentially I wanted this for music and it is like a hi-fi separates sytem or hi grade sound orientated PC that fits in your pocket. I'm just going on first impressions but I'm very happy with this so far.
I can't think why anybody would be disappointed with this.
I got to the point where phones and the PSP just don't cut it. Having a jack of all trades device tends to mean that it does lots of things and it doesn't do them very well.
This is my first step away from "multi function devices". I don't care what additional things this does, I want it to play music and play it well.
It does....exceptionally well. The X-Fi clarity is as good as that you get with Creative's sound cards. For anybody who has fitted an X-Fi extreme card, there is a big advance in sound quality. It's the same with this. Playlists aren't particularly easy to set up on the player itself but it can be done through the software provided too. There are changeable themes including the all black one in the pics and the grey and orange one depicted for the 8gb model on creative's site. Photo's can be made in to wallpapers. The firmware doesn't seem to stall and responds instantly.
It has a graphic equaliser and separate x-fi enhancement.
Sound quality is a real 10 out of 10. Listening to Angel by Massive Attack proves the capability of the player and the headphones - no distortion at full volume and with bass boost and increased bass on the EQ. There was also no flattening out of the sound. It stays rich and balanced at full volume. You won't need to change headphones unless you have a real dislike of in the ear noise cancelling types. The supplied ones cost £30 by themselves. Frequency response seems to be about 8-20,000 which gives the sound it's richness.
Full volume is reassuringly loud. I'd had this problem with Sony Ericsson Walkman phones that were too quiet. I'd changed headphones, used CX400's etc but the sound just wasn't there nor was the volume.
This has an optional volume retriction which you can set yourself.
Charging is done via USB so you will need to have a PC....or maybe a PS3. Transferring files is not too bad on a slow PC - I'll update that comment when I've used my own and tried out other things like video playback.
Essentially I wanted this for music and it is like a hi-fi separates sytem or hi grade sound orientated PC that fits in your pocket. I'm just going on first impressions but I'm very happy with this so far.
I can't think why anybody would be disappointed with this.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Long term relationship.
I have owned one of these for three years. During that time I have used it almost daily without any hint of a problem. Read more
Published 9 days ago by uncleken
Not so bad but srsly buy an iPod
Goods:
- Very good video quality and you can delete stuff within the device.
Bads:
- It takes FOREVER to recharge and you can't say if it's charging or not. Read more
- Very good video quality and you can delete stuff within the device.
Bads:
- It takes FOREVER to recharge and you can't say if it's charging or not. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Angel Rubio Vicente
An ok product
I purchased my X-Fi in June 2009. It is actually a very cool product, initially I chose this over Ipod.
However, overtime, I experienced difficulties using this product. Read more
However, overtime, I experienced difficulties using this product. Read more
Published on 7 April 2010 by L. Tuna
Fantastic MP3
I purchased this for my daughter and she loves it. Easy to navigate through albums, easy to hit the volume down when I glare at her, and totally simple to add new music.
Published on 31 Mar 2010 by M. Clark
Best Sound around
ive had sony mp3 player walkmans and a ipod but this little marvel beats em all simple to use and has the best sound around the x-fi system is great! Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2010 by M. Newlove
Had two, neither lasted more than 3 months
I was given a Zen as a present in June, by September it stopped working - just wouldn't switch on one day. It had not been dropped or damaged in any way. Read more
Published on 17 Feb 2010 by London Puffin
Creative ZEN X-Fi 8GB MP3 player with SD card slot
My enjoyment of this product has been marred rather by a faulty battery (not charging properly) and a wildly inaccurate clock. Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2010 by T. C. Baker
Almost perfect - tell you why...
You have probably read enough reviews about how outstanding the audio quality of this player is, or about how brilliant are the images and videos. Read more
Published on 25 Jan 2010 by Miriam Emilia
worth a purchace
I purchaced this for a christmas pressie to myself and having never owned a mp3 i was a little sceptical as to how good this was going to sound! Read more
Published on 21 Jan 2010 by Mr. Kevin A. Milstead
Out of This World!
I just happen to be listening to John Coltrane's "Out of This World" as I write this - blinding/blistering/breath-taking are all words that spring to mind - crystal-clear and to... Read more
Published on 31 Dec 2009 by James Morton
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