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Anyone who would pay $100 for this device is seriously not in their right frame of mind. The battery life is extremely short. Anyone who would actually pay the MSRP of $200 is an outright sucker.Here goes: My player constantly crashes. The library deletes itself whenever it wants. It doesn't charge as it's supposed to. Sound quality is average at best.I now realize why Apple has the brand loyalty it has.
When I got this MP3, it worked great, I got it playing music the first day. My dad has one and has had no problem with it. My dad uses it everyday and it's perfect. My big brother told me that means its dying. You can change the background that's cool. I was so upset. But, a few years later, I think they were two, it started to get lines in the screen. I think it won't die if you use it everyday.
I loved it. But it works fine, but I can't bear to think that in any moment it will die. I hadn't used it for about two or three months, and, like I mentioned, suddenly it had lines in the screen.Beside that, It's wonderful. I really enjoyed it but I don't like that it's dying.
It went blank on me. I lost all my data. Just about the time the warranty ran out. Did not have any problems until about two weeks ago. I bought my Creative Zen V Plus 4 GB a year ago. And you will get no help from the good folks at Creative. I guess it was only good for a year. I tried to follow their trouble shooting suggestions on their site but I still can't get my player to return back to the original screen.
I can get back the music but I had other information that cannot be replaced. A few days ago after charging my zen overnight I turned it on and found a screen that said recovery mode. Worked fine. Had I known the player would go ballistic after a year I would have saved everything I put on there. My son suggested I hit the reset button and my zen came back to life. I contacted the good folks at Creative only to be told that my warranty ran out and in order to get any help from them I would have to buy telephone time at $12 a half hour. So buyers please beware that if you buy this product save your information because you may very well lose it after a year. I am left with a worthless piece of junk on my hands.
When it was done (sometimes this takes several minutes) it would have forgotten certain settings I had recently changed. The Zen V Plus is a nice size. The player's controls are intuitive enough that you can easily play/pause/skip without looking at it. I'd look at the player and it would say "Rebuilding Library". It's still under warranty, just barely, and I am sending it back. I wasn't crazy about the shuffle function; it seemed to "shuffle" the same way every time, so you'd find yourself listening to some songs repeatedly and others not at all.
One day it went into "Recovery Mode" (a function that gives you the opportunity to reformat, reinstall firmware, etc). The menu system isn't perfect, but it's fairly easy to navigate. Then it *really* crashed. It doesn't come with an a/c adapter (just the mini USB for your computer), and it won't charge with non-Creative brand adapters.More importantly, it crashes. Several times--especially after about the six month mark--the music would suddenly stop. It won't leave Recovery Mode: I've reset it with the tiny internal button, I've reinstalled the latest firmware from Creative's website.nothing.
If/when it dies again, I will be reluctant to choose another Creative product.
PRO's:Plays mp3 fine, audio quality decentNavigationals are pretty straightfoward Small, cute, decent battery lifeCON'sFor video you can only play AVI files, wish you could convert to smaller sized video files with decent quality but that's ok.Screen bit tiny if you're wanting to playback lot of video but it's supposed to be a mp3 player at heart isn't it.Overall not a bad gadget but I should've picked up a different model [same item but with a larger storage space :)]
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