Creative Zen Micro 5GB - Silver

The Zen Micro digital music player from Creative Labs packs an incredible 5GB of storage capacity into a shell small enough to sit comfortably in your jeans pocket. It also rides nicely in your hand, with a palm-fitting profile and thumb-friendly front-panel controls. It's a bit shorter than an Apple iPod Mini, yet its rechargeable lithium-ion battery provides 12 hours of continuous playback--50 percent more than iPod mini's. The Zen Micro is compatible not merely with MP3s and WAV files, but with WMA as well. Toss in USB 2.0 connectivity and you're looking at one spiffy portable music player.

But playing isn't all the Zen Micro does. You can use it to receive FM radio (with 32 station presets to keep your favourites at the ready), and to record, either from the radio or from live sources such as voice dictation or lectures using the Zen Micro's built-in condenser microphone. Trimmed in a luminescent blue glow and with easily visible backlit buttons, this stylish silver player holds up to 1,250 songs (83 hours) at 128 kbps or 2,500 songs (166 hours) at lower-fidelity 64 kbps (MP3/WMA)--that's a solid week's worth of music listening, never playing the same song twice. Compatibility with Microsoft's WMA compressed-audio format grants access to over 2 million downloadable songs offered promotionally or for sale online. Perhaps the Zen Micro's coolest attribute is its DJ feature, which will shuffle not only all the songs you've loaded or all the songs in a given album, but, at your discretion, only the tracks you listen to most, or only those you rarely hear, taking the work out of selecting your favourites or hunting out all the music you're still getting to know.

For navigation, the device features a vertical, linear touchpad designed to make searching through songs or playlists easy, quick, and fun. The unit's blue, 160 x 104-pixel, electroluminescent LCD shows key functions and song details at a glance, and you can even customize the main menu to keep right at your fingertips the features that matter most to you. Another of the Zen Micro's handy features is its personal organizer. You'll never forget an important anniversary with the onboard calendar, and it also includes a to-do list and a contacts list, all of which sync seamlessly with Microsoft Outlook (Outlook thus required for use of these features). In addition, the device offers a sleep timer and alarm so you can drift off to sleep to the strains of one playlist and wake to a completely different one.

Zen Micro's rechargeable battery is easy to replace.

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Creative's Zen Micro is the highly anticipated killer MP3 player from the inventors of the first MP3 Jukebox. It fits naturally into the hand, placing the touch-sensitive control pad in the perfect position for navigation with just one finger. The Zen Micro will store up to 2,500* songs in WMA or 1,250* in MP3 on its 5GB hard disk, and its easy-to-remove rechargeable battery delivers up to 12 hours of high-quality digital audio. FM radio and voice recording further extend its versatility. The Zen Micro is ideal for use with on-line music services and Windows PCs, supporting downloads at up to a song per second via its USB 2.0 port. It is available in a choice of 5 colours.

• Micro Sized - Just over 3" tall and 2" wide - the attention-grabbing Zen Micro fits ergonomically in the palm of one hand.
• Long battery life - The party just keeps going with the Zen Micro. It delivers 12 hours of continuous high-quality digital audio and up to 16 hours playtime with its built-in FM radio.
• Removable, rechargeable battery - If the party lasts longer than 12 hours, users can swap-out the Zen Micro's removable, rechargeable battery and let the music play on. Simply slide the back panel away, swap the batteries (like in a mobile phone) and that's it!
• FM radio - In addition to holding your favourite songs, the Zen Micro allows you to listen to your favourite radio stations. Unlike many other players, the Zen Micro features a high quality built-in FM radio that includes 32 presets.
• Vertical Touch Pad - The Zen Micro provides intuitive scrolling hrough artists, albums and genres with a gentle stroke of a thumb over the vertical touchpad. This vertical navigation is so simple, user friendly and unique to the Zen.
• More Music - The Zen Micro stores up to 2500* songs in WMA or 1250* in MP3. Users can choose MP3 or WMA music, ripped from CDs or downloaded from on-line music sites. USB 2.0 connectivity ensures fast song transfer up to a song per second.
• Voice recording - The Zen Micro doubles as a handy voice recorder, capturing up to 10 hours of important dictations, notes or meetings.
• Take any file with you - The Zen Micro doubles as an external hard disk**. Store and transport your digital photos, presentations and spreadsheets - in fact, any file type!
• Keep Organised - In addition to all these features, the Zen Micro provides extra functionality with an on-board Address Book, Calendar, To-Do List and synchronisation with Microsoft Outlook.
• Out of the box - The Zen Micro comes complete with a belt clip that doubles as a stand; in-ear dynamic bass response headphones; a protective carrying case; USB 2.0 cable; and an AC adapter.

* Based on 4-minute songs at 64kbps in WMA, 128kbps in MP3
** No drivers are required for PCs with Windows ME, XP and 2000

Zen Micro

Belt clip (doubles as a stand)

USB 2.0 cable

AC adapter

In-ear headphones

Carrying case

Software

Instruction manual

Removable battery