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Summary: Excellent product by Creative
Review: The Jukebox Zen is simply the best mp3 player I have bought till now.
First of all, the construction is top-notch. The buttons really have a strong feeling and seem like they will last a long while. The sleek aluminum is just awesome and feels very sturdy.
The interface takes a while to get used to but after a few hours of fiddling around with the scroller and buttons, everything seems intuitive. The blue backlight is just great in the dark.
I have been using the Jukebox for about 6 hours now and hopefully the batteries will last for the 12 advertised hours.
The only complaint I might have is the headphones, which do not seem to match with the unit itself in terms of quality. It is made of cheap plastic, and the sound is just average quality. Investing in a good pair of decent headphones might not be a bad idea. Oh another complaint might be that there is no way to classify songs into different folders. So imagine scrolling through 3000 mp3s in the same list, this can be quite painful since you can only search for songs by stating the letters they start with.
But overall this is one of the best purchases I've made over the past months, and it comes highly recommended.
Rating: 
Summary: Second best below an iPod
Review: I became interested in getting an iPod a few weeks ago, but I finally settled on this Nomad Zen. I found the 10 Gig iPod ridiculously overpriced compared to the Zen which is 100 bucks cheaper (after rebate) and 10 Gigs bigger. Reading the reviews and hearing the Zen myself, it sounds better than the iPod as well. Some people think that the Zen uses the same Toshiba harddrive found in the iPod and Toshiba Mobilphone, but they're wrong. The Zen is a tad bigger than the iPod because it uses the same laptop harddrive found in the Discman sized Nomad 3. This drives the price of the Zen down as there are more of the standard laptop harddrives around than those tiny and exotic Toshiba ones.
I really like the Zen overall. It's bigger than an iPod but it's still pretty small. If you never saw an iPod before, the size of the Zen would still be considered amazing. What I don't like about the Zen is that there are too many buttons on the sides of this player and they all look alike making navigation a lot less simple than disc based navigation of an iPod. You get USB and Firewire input/output but you can't charge the built-in Li-on battery through Firewire. The headphones aren't very good and the bundled software is bloated and buggy beyond belief. As soon as I got the Zen, I got Notmad Explorer, and you should too. It makes file transfers as easy as dragging and dropping files in Windows Explorer.
Rating: 
Summary: Did not work on arrival -- Customer support was horrible
Review: When I received my Nomad Zen, it was broken. (Bad hard drive). When I called customer support, I was treated to a HORRIBLE experience.I've used creative products for over 10 years, and because of this experience I'm not longer going to buy their products. I can't recommend a product to a user when the company refuses to support their customers. Try something else, perhaps the Apple IPod. I would be happy to provide more details if asked.
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Summary: Very versatile and sounds good, too.
Review: This is a good sounding unit with a huge storage capacity, which can hold an awful lot of music files in both the MP3 and WMA formats. It can also store data files containing text, graphics, or movies. This gets around the problem of files that are too large for floppies and which take too long to be burning to a CD, with the associated problem of incompatibility of burning software where a partially burned disc is wanted to be appendable. Nero and Adaptec work together, but Gear is only compatible with Gear. I chose this unit over the Apple iPod because it had both USB and FireWire connections. The iPod only has FireWire, which is not fitted to many computers that you might want to up/download data to/from, so the Creative labs is the more versatile choice. The iPod does look more swish, the Creative labs looking good, yet rather traditional. So, if you're looking for a convenient way to transport large data files and have lots of music to keep you entertained, this Creative labs unit is a good buy.
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Summary: The Zen Jukebox 2.0
Review: The Zen Jukebox 2.0 is a must have for the average consumer. This player fits value with an affordable price. With its small price tag and great features I recommend. I recently bought one and have had no problems! Heres Pros, and cons.
PROS
> Great price!
> 20 GB Storage
> Small enough to fit in most pockets
> Sound quality is amazing!
CONS
> Software is horrible
> Headphones included are bad
Rating:
Summary: Better hope you don't have ANY problems with it......
Review: Customer service is rather bad. First of all, to get a pretty standard item for all wireless/portable product, a car adapter, you're going to have to shell out an extra $40 and this is for any of Creative's Nomads since they purposely made the input voltage a non-standard one of 5V. Secondly if you ask questions to tech support, they pretty much just answer questions you didn't even ask and ignore the one you really want answered. I had this issue both through e-mail and on the phone. Finally, during a phone call, I said, "So am I never going to know the answer to this question?" The tech guy ACTUALLY said something in regard to it making his call time average high, if he looks for the answer. To get a replacement battery, expect to pay around $120. $20 for diagnosis, $15 to ship it there and $85 for the battery itself. All of this just a couple months after it's 90 day warranty.
Rating:
Summary: High pitch squeal and crashed after 6 months
Review: i own the iPod (just got it) and the creative Zen (1st generation-had it for a year). i like both units quite a bit, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. main advantages of the iPod:
small and lightweight,
looks friggin cool,
intuitive and very easy to use menu's,
can sync outlook contacts, appointments, notes, etc...
can be used as a hard drive,
iTunes is a good program (for ripping, burning, playing music and organizing the iPod),
scroll wheel is amazing. disadvantages:
price,
doesn't come with non firewire cables (if you don't have a firewire card, you need to purchase another cable ($20) to use the iPod (with USB - either 1.1 or 2.0),
"on the go playlists" - you can build a playlist on the iPod while you are out and about, however, you can't save it on the iPod. you can save it with iTunes when you sync, but only if you are using "automatic sync" - which i don't(so no spur of the moment playlists which can be used again for me). note that you can create as many playlists as you want on iTunes and save them to the iPod. compared with the Zen - Zen is bigger and heavier (while still small overall, compared to the iPod it is significantly larger),
Zen is sooooo much cheaper and for more memory,
Zen has much better "on the go playlist" functionality (i.e. it lets you create a playlist on the unit and save it, create another one, save it, etc...).
Zen has a que of songs that can be added to, changed, etc... on the fly - the iPod does not i would reccomend the Zen as well, as a much cheaper alternative, with superior mp3 playing functionality (que and "on the go playlists"), though you can't sync outlook information, it doesn't have games, is heavier and larger overall and is certainly not nearly as cool looking.
Rating: 
Summary: Depends what you want
Review: I thought that this was going to be a good product that i would have for a long time. But i thought wrong. The zen is good comparing to other mp3 players but no match to the i pod.
I wish i had gotten ine instead of this. Im not giving this 5 stars because well the damn thing broke. I dont know how because i didnt drope it and it was only one year old. Anyway the new gen Ipod is AMAZING and only 50 bucks more. Trust me its worth getting an ipod u can chack out the features at www.apple.com/ipod if u have any specific questions about the ipod or zen email me at kevinschaffter182@hotmail.com JUst get an ipod
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Summary: great price, good storage, excellent features
Review: I just got my Zen and I have never seen a better piece of machinery in my life. It is easy to use, and looks sleek as ever. It is a must buy for anyone searching for a great player at a bearable price. It has EAX smart sound, easy to use organization software, 20 gb hard drive, a carrying case, and headphones! However, it does lack a stop button and an EAX button (although still posseses EAX feature) but it will make no difference after you tinker around with it for a while. In other words this is the MP3 player to buy...a great Christmas gift also.
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