Creative Zen V Plus 2 GB Portable Media Player (Black/Green) by Creative
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Digital camera reviews of Creative Zen V Plus 2 GB Portable Media Player (Black/Green)
Digital camera Review: Cute, BUT, Not So Friendly
Summary: 1 Stars
I believe I am computer savvy, but this piece of work is not user friendly. I have not been able to anything but charge it.Digital camera Review: DO NOT BUY THIS PLAYER!!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
i got this for my b-day at march, first it works prefectly fine until it wont turn on anymore after a month. I can still hear the music but the screen is completely blank. I tried to returen it but i past the 30 days return deadline. This piece of S**T pissed me off. F*** creative. DO NOT BUY THIS, YOU WILL GET NOTHING!!Digital camera Review: DON'T DO 1 Stars
This player was awesome... for the 12 days it worked! Then it crashed & even windows wouldn't recognize it. After scouring the internet for a solution I learned this is a common feature of the Zen V Plus. I wish I had know before I gave it to my son as a gift. Even the support team at creative agreed it was time for a new zen... I'm thinking ipod instead. Maybe in the near future Creative Labs will work out the glitches, but I won't be purchasing another of their products soon. It really is too bad because it could be a really cool toy, it's relatively reasonably priced & the software was very easy to work with. If you ignore this, good luck but don't say you weren't warned. If you're determined to own a Zen wait a few months until they can fix the quirks.Digital camera Review: Decent for Audio Books, but does not hold up well
Summary: 3 Stars
I've owned my player for about a year now and mostly listen to mp3 audio books. I use it every day extensively. It has been dropped a few times (nothing traumatic) so the case is missing a corner and it is scratched and showing wear on the buttons.
My real problem with the Zen is that the battery is buried within the unit. The only reason to make the battery so inaccessible to to plan obsolescence. Who wants to spend a min of $25 to get your battery replaced when you could just buy a new player?
My Zen started to lock up daily for a two week period. Finally the reset no longer worked. There was no power, even after charging over night.
Since the warranty was up and I did not want to spend more money on it,
I looked for some solutions. Dissembling the case and resetting the battery worked!
I didn't want to break anything so I followed the steps on the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVX_1oACvHc and I had no problem. I used a credit card to easily pop the case off.
Good Luck!
Digital camera Review: Decent little player, great for workouts.....
Summary: 4 Stars
I've been using this player now for about three months straight non-stop and I have to say it's not bad. There really isn't a perfect mp3 player that I know about, so this one isn't any different than others. It does have a flaw which I will get to.
First thing, here are the strengths. DL music is a snap. It's got a nice menu and plenty of extra's like a full manual EQ plus extra dsp modes like classic, pop, rock, etc. Really sounds nice! Full player settings like display timer, contrast settings, idle sleep, snooze timer, etc. It has plenty of photo settings and even clock settings. It has a nice OLED display and ofcourse you can dl your own wallpaper. It has a microphone for recordings, fm radio, which I haven't used so I can't comment. Video's, photo options. As far as the music is concerned it has playlist that you can create in a snap, in which you need it connectd to your pc to do. You have the option og playing through your playlist, bookmarks, albums,artists,genres, all tracks, and recordings.
I like the little toggle switch to scroll through the menu.
I'm an athlete and I can tell you it is great for working out. Excellent armbad, stays securly on your bicep, or in my case the forearm. You need to purchase the protective case for the armband to work.
Small enough to fit in a shirt pocket, very convenient. Battery life isn't too bad, will last you the whole day and then some as long as you don't keep activating the display. Put it on random play and leave it alone.
Now for it's shortcoming:
It does freeze up from time to time. I've noticed in the months I've had it that it freezes up mostly when you start repeating tracks. When it does, you have to push the play/pause button twice to restart it. It's actually gotten better in time, then when I first started using it. Just a little glitch. I think all players have some sort of issue, this one isn't any different.
I've been satisfied with this player, so I went and bought another one. This time I purchased the V Plus 4GB. I will write a review for that one after a I get some usage out of it. I really don't think you could beat it's size convenience and features.
UPDATE....
So to follow up on this review of this product, she finally died. Freezed up on me and I couldn't bring her back. Now I'm not sure what the life spans are on MP3 players in general. I'm very rough on them because I always use it when working out and use it during work. So I logged lots of hours on it. I haven't been using MP3 players long, so I don't know how long they actually last. I still think though that Creative needs to address their relatively short life span. It's to bad because it really has lots of potential. It's a great sounding player, great menu that is very user friendly, excellent for working out, great OLED display, but they need to get more lifespan out of it.
UPDATE: I decided to order another one and see if maybe I had a faulty one. I was really happy with it while I had it and really miss it. I can't stand I-Pod and the Zune, so I will right another update sometime in the near future.