9.2 out of 10

Creative ZEN X-Fi

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Best Price: $139

  • User Score (163)
    8.5 8.5 from 163 reviewers
  • Expert Score (27)
    7.2 7.2 from 27 reviewers
  • Features (8)
    10 10 from 8 reviewers

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  • Activity: 5/5
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Pros & Cons

  • packed with features, good bundled earbuds, good sound quality, very good build quality, upgraded headphones included
  • weak fm radio, text input, poor sd implementation, no touchscreen, chat is poorly implemented

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Manufacturer's Specs

  • Capacity:
    8GB
  • Size WxHxD:
    3.3" x 2.2" x 0.5"
  • Weight:
    2.4 ounces
  • LCD:
    2.5" TFT 16.7 million color LCD 320 x 240 pixels
  • Storage Capacity:
    8GB 123 (2,000 songs or 30 hours of video)
  • Battery Life 7:
    Up to 36 hours of continuous audio playback Up to 13 hours of continuous audio playback with speaker Up to 20 hours of continuous FM radio playback Up to 5 hours of continuous video playback Up to 4 hours of continuous video playback with speaker
  • Video Playback Formats:
    MJPEG, WMV, MPEG-4 including properly encoded DivX and XviD. Included software can transcode from other formats providing appropriate codecs are installed. 4
  • Audio Playback Formats:
    MP3, WMA, AAC5, WAV (ADPCM), Audible 2,3,4
  • Photo Formats Supported:
    JPEG. Included software can transcode BMP, GIF, PNG, and TIFF. 6
  • Battery:
    Built-in Li-ion battery

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The Sound of Perfection.

  • Built with X-Fi technology - Experience the very essence of music perfection as you listen to audio in crystal clear clarity. Hear your music the way it was always meant …

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  1. Reviewer: BigPictureBigSound
    3 weeks ago
    Overall 9
    9.0
    Value for money 10
    10
    Features 8
    8.0
    Performance 9
    9.0
     

    Light on ounces, heavy on gigabytes, screaming with audio enhancements and streaming like a fiend: The latest ZEN puts it all in the palm of your hand. Read more

  2. Creative Zen X-Fi 32GB

    Reviewer: Digitaltrends
    19 September 2008
    Overall 7
    7.0
     

    Pros: • Very good sound quality • Excellent included earbuds • Attractive interface • Expandable storage Cons: • Buttons are very small and not backlit • No Web browsing or wireless sync • No third-party app support • Typing is difficult Read more

  3. Reviewer: LAPTOP Magazine
    18 September 2008
    Overall 5
    5.0
     

    The first Wi-Fi–enabled Zen offers excellent sound, but drops the ball with a confusing control scheme. Read more

  4. Creative Zen X-Fi

    Reviewer: UGO
    09 September 2008

    It should become official within the next few months, and until then any pricing information is purely speculative. But they've been dropping new details on it very quickly, which is a good indication that once it's announced, it'll be ready to go soon after. We'll venture to guess that it's going to pop up on some wish lists come Christmastime. Read more

  5. The amazing Zen X-Fi has great sound, features, headphones, and storage options--and for a nice price, too.

    Reviewer: PC World
    19 August 2008
    Overall 9
    9.0
    Design 9
    9.0
    Features 8
    8.0
    Performance 9
    9.0
     

    Minor issues like the chat malfunctions can't take the shine off of the Creative X-Fi. It's an outstanding digital music player that rises to the top with ease. The masses may continue to think iPod first when they need a new MP3 player--but the X-Fi is an innovative, feature-packed player, and it's an absolute steal for the price. Read more

  1. Creative Zen Z-Fi 16GB

    Reviewer: J. R. Gruen, Amazon
    24 October 2008
    Overall 8
    8.0
     

    Small, Light & goes a long time on a charge. The Software is a little hard to figure out, not as intuitive as the Vision M software I used previously. I don't try & store every song that has ever been recorded so the 16 GB is more than sufficient. A little trick for you guitar freaks: I have a headphone amp that plugs directly into my guitar that has an aux port. I can put mp3 backing tracks on the Zen, plug it into the headphone amp and jam along with the music. Great... Read more

  2. This Mp3 player hot!!

    Reviewer: KcG, Newegg
    21 October 2008
    Overall 8
    8.0
     

    I love the media server feature dam its sick.i just post web links of photo's, share music , share my pictures from my computer and a bunch of other things from my media server and download them straight to my device.I love that feature its the best and for the price of this device u cant go wrong.Plus if my girl (whom i both the mp3 player for ) came over to my place and she want new songs on her mp3 and she forgot her USB cord home I just use the media server feature... Read more

  3. Zen X Fi 32 GB - INCREDIBLE SOUND

    Reviewer: sonofnapalm1, Dell
    16 September 2008
    Overall 10
    10
    Features 10
    10
    Ease of use 6
    6.0
    Sound quality 10
    10
     

    A combination of Rhapsody to Go, the absoute best music program on the Internet and the Zen X Fi 32 GB would be second to none for music selection, sound quality, affordability as one pays only a monthly fee for access to millions of songs. Read more

  4. Great bang for the buck player!

    Reviewer: FrankR, Digitaltrends
    11 September 2008
    Overall 10
    10
     

    Tons of great features. Buttons are not that bad. Audio quality is second to none. It really makes your music sound better! Read more

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