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ZEN Micro: New Digital Player from Creative Reviewed

Category: Multimedia

by Sergey Samarin

[ 02/04/2005 | 10:19 AM ]

We would like to introduce to you one more representative of the Creative MP3 player family. This even more advance solution is definitely worth your attention. High-quality sound quality, long battery life and convenient use. Check it out yourself!

Table of contents:

• Technical Characteristics
  
• Functional Features
  
• Conclusion
  

A very short while ago we published a review of the Zen Touch (see our article called Creative ZEN Touch Player: Love Me Tender), a small-size digital audio player from Creative with most original controls, and I thought then that the Zen family had reached the height of perfection and we would have to wait for a long time to see a new model of this glorious series.

But I was wrong: the company’s engineers decided to please us with yet another novelty. The new model is called Zen Micro and, like all devices of the Zen series, it uses a miniature hard disk drive as a storage medium.

Without unnecessarily puffing up this introduction, I invite you to get going right away and check out the specification of the new device.

Technical Characteristics

The player in its retail package

I want to stress the fact that the new Zen player comes equipped with an FM-tuner. Earlier models of this series could also support this feature, but only if you purchased optional headphones.

You find the following in the package of the Zen Micro player:

• Creative Zen Micro player;
• Earphones;
• Li-Ion battery;
• Power adapter;
• USB 2.0 cable;
• Belt clip and stand;
• Pouch;
• Software CD.

You can also buy an optional wired remote control, but I don’t think it’s much useful considering the very small size of the player.

The optional wired remote control