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Creative Zen Micro 5GB - White

by Creative Labs
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews) More about this product

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Technical Details

  • Micro Sized - Just over 3" tall and 2 wide"
  • 12 hour battery life
  • Removable, rechargeable battery
  • FM radio
  • Vertical Touch pad
  • Voice and FM radio Recording
  • Address Book, Calendar, To-Do List and synchronisation with Microsoft Outlook
  • Store up to 2500 songs in WMA format
  • Transfer any data between computers use the Zen Micro as a removable hard drive
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Product details

  • Item Weight: 109 g
  • Boxed-product Weight: 454 g
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  • Item model number: 70PF108000034
  • ASIN: B00069BU4U
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 11 Nov 2004
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 62,706 in Electronics & Photo (See Bestsellers in Electronics & Photo)

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Product Description

Product Description

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.

The Zen Micro's removable battery is easy to swap with another fully charged battery (additional batteries sold separately), extending your listening by a half-day per swap.

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Manufacturer's Description

Introducing the most imaginative and eye-catching MP3 player to date! The exciting new Zen Micro carries 2,500 songs in a micro sized player and treats you to 10 electrifying colors to choose from, all with a captivating luminescent blue glow that will set you apart from the crowd.The size of your player shouldn't compromise the thousands of songs you want to listen to. Zen Micro's incredibly tiny size holds up to 2,500 songs, that's a whole weeks worth of music to enjoy and never hear the same song twice.And, with USB 2.0, you'll be able to transfer songs in a flash, spending less time at your computer and more time enraptured in your music.Only 3.3" high, this micro sized player stands tall against any other player. In such a tiny space Creative Technology has filled it with everything you'd want in an MP3 player and more!Zen Micro's contoured shape feels great when you hold it in your hand, scrolling through thousands of your favorite songs. The smooth round edges also let it slip effortlessly into your pocket. However, its stunning looks will probably make you want to keep it out where everyone can see it.Zen Micro, trimmed with a luminescent blue glow and back-lit buttons, boasts the most imaginative design of an MP3 player to date.

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Zen-tastic, 7 Feb 2005
Having spent a long time researching MP3 players, & reading other reviews, there was a lot of expectation upon the little box of tricks when it arrived. I must say that I'm not disappointed with my choice.

Being a confirmed gadgeteer, I was sorely tempted by the Ipod. After all, it must be good if it is the top selling MP3 player in the world. BUT - why be like the rest of the crowd? Okay, Creative may have taken a few leads from Apple (touchpad, white headphones etc), but they seem to have made a product which has evolved the concept. There are no worries over what happens in a year or 2 when the battery life ends, you can have a spare battery to swap if you're not near a charger, there's a built in radio, it has it's own style. All things that make it that little bit better.

The little Zen is actually very cool to look at & hold. Not that it really matters, when we're considering a music player. Okay, maybe a little, but the main thing is that it sounds good. The headphones are a little big for my ears, but sound quality is not a problem. The player handles a wide range of music styles with ease, but you can also change the settings to make the most of Rock/Jazz etc by using presets, or by changing the settings yourself.

The battery life is perfectly acceptable, and I feel comforted by the fact that it is removable (unlike the Ipod's). The added bonus is that if the limited edition is still available, you get a 2nd battery free.

5 gig drive may seem measly compared to the 20s & 40s on the market, but unless you want to have yours & your neighbours entire music collections in your pocket, 5 is enough. When I was looking at my CDs to decide what to rip I found that I really didn't want to listen to half of it. It depends on the quality you rip the music in, but my Zen should hold 60-80 albums - enough to keep the boredom from creeping into the train journeys.

The bottom line is, if there were the Zen Micro & an Ipod Mini on the table now, I'd leave the Ipod behind, click up the volume on the Zen & never look back.

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38 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Zen micros Rule the mp3 world!!!!!, 12 Jan 2005
By A Customer
The micro is better in every way than an ipod...

1.Battery life is 12 hours.. but the zens battery is removable and you get an extra battery (therfore 24 hours) so no need to wait for it to charge.. just insert the second battery!! :)

2.Zen micros are cheaper than Ipod mini's....

3.The micro has an FM radio with 32 presets and an autoscan function! :) Ipod mini's don't.

4.Micro has a 5GB capacity...the ipod mini only has 4GB!
and ipod mini's only hold 1000 songs.. this baby holds 2500!!!

5.It also plays WMA files as well as mp3 files unlike the ipod.

6.Zen micro is smaller!!

7.Better looking!!

8.It comes with a pouch and case with a belt clip and stand!

9.The buttons are also touch sensitive! :)

10.The earphones are also more reliable as the ipod earphones always fall apart or break.

11.The sound quality is a lot better than an ipod!

12.And to put the icing on the cake... when the zen is charging the lights pulse which looks really cool! :)

SO WHAT AM TRYING TO SAY IS THAT THE CREATIVE ZEN MICRO IS THE WINNER!!:)

Hope that was helpful!

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars What on earth is an Ipod?, 26 Dec 2004
That is the question anyone who has used a zen micro should say. Creative have reached into their giant santa sack of goodies and have pulled out a bomb homing towards the Ipods popularity.

What can I say, I recieved a Zen Micro this afternoon and it is amazing. When god made Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden he left them a zen micro because I swear that mine has developed a halo of sound.

I have loaded around 21 albums in mp3 format onto my gorgeous little unit with incredible ease. The sound quality is vastly better than my friends Ipod mini and the radio is an outstanding addition. You may be saying, you can get a radio for an Ipod! Yeh you can but I dont want to pay 30 quid for a add on. Which is all the Ipod is, abase for add ons.

Pros:(Zen M) radio, Voice recording, 2 batteries, dj mode... the list goes on every feature is thought out to the milimetre.

Cons: NONE

Conclusion: Dont be fooled by fashen buy a micro!

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1.0 out of 5 stars Faulty Headphone socket too
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1.0 out of 5 stars Yet another broken headphone socket
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3.0 out of 5 stars its great for a while.....
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2.0 out of 5 stars ANOTHER faulty headphone socket
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5.0 out of 5 stars WOW
Ive just recently recieved my Zen Micro, and i must say it is an brilliant little baby. As everyone, i was in the ipod or zen dialema. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Some great features but what an interface!
First the good points, It's well made, it can use a wide range of media formats (including WMA), sound quality is good, it has an excellent maximum volume (louder than the iPod),... Read more
Published on 9 Jul 2005 by Bobby Elliott

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