The Creative Zen X-Fi

It stands for Extreme Fidelity. It is by Creative, and do you know Creative? I Think not. It is a shame, as Creative created the patent for the formats and designs that are now used by Apple's players. Creative sued, but Apple acted to fast, and was too rich to lose by the time. So you may use your iPods, your evil iPods, but here me out on this new, Xtremely incredible Zen.

The Zen X-Fi uses a technology that not only transfers music at perfectly lossless quality easily, it restores and IMPROVES quality, making the music sound like those half a thousand dollar Bose speakers you got in your rich ass iPod filled living rooms. It erases quality errors, like little noises and rings that are common when burning in lower kbps, and improves bass and acoustic quality of the music. It's that rich, pure quality that makes you feel like you are in heaven.

The Creative Zen X-Fi includes of course video, music, and picture capability, just like your evil little iPods do!

It also has a microphone to record voice/music, a built in radio, a built in speaker, an SD/SDHC card slot, 16.7 million colors for the 2.5 inch TFT screen, and for the Lan version of the X-Fi a built in LAN reciever to chat on your favorite chat accounts like Yahoo Messenger and WLM at LAN hotspots. The LAN also lets you connect to your at home network to sync and stream files wirelessly straight to your Zen X-Fi.

And if thats not enough, it comes with Creative's high quality EP-830 ear buds, and lets you listen to not only WMA and MP3 but also your evil little iTunes AAC songs (.m4a). Plus, the player doesn't only work with iTunes as iPods do. Zens work with tons of music download stores including Napster and WMP's store.

The only draw backs are that the Zen X-Fi is a bit thicker than the iPod, but with all that stuff it is VERY reasonable. It also is only sold up to 32 GB, but I know only one person who actually filled their 120 GB iPod and he is rich, so he can afford tons of shit. As for me, my Zen Vision: M holds 30 GB and I'm only a third way through its capacity. At high quality (Like 330 kbps WMA) I have about 1000 songs which fills about 10 GB. But at your average 128 mbps which a lot of people keep at, that would be half the amount of GB for 1000 songs.

And the punchline, the full Zen X-Fi with LAN 32 GB is sold at only $250 dollars. Sure the evil iPod Classic holds 120 GB and is $250, but the trade off IS exremely reasonable, especially when 80% of people don't even fill 30 GB like me and all my friends.

Main Link: http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=213&subcategory=214&product

Other Links: http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Player-Wireless-Built-Speaker/dp/B001CB0RT0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1241230475&sr=1-2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_ZE%20N

Enjoy.