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| Brand: Creative Labs
Category: CE
This item is no longer available
Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 31,138
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5.5 x 1.3
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 70PF233009111
Model: 70PF233009111
UPC: 054651150997
EAN: 0054651150997
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 6-10 of 17
 cancer causing MP3 December 22, 2008
fee (Lancaster, Pa)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I just purches two Zen stone MP3 players for my kids. I have one of my own and for my limited use the player is fine. However, I just opened the box to charge them up and the first thing I see is the warning "HANDLING THIS PRODUCT MAY EXPOSE YOU TO CHEMICALS KNOWN TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO CAUSE CANCER AND BIRTH DEFECTS OR OTHER REPRODUCTIVE HARM"!! What the... Ok, so you can argue that everything causes cancer these days, but really do you think I'm going to wrap these up and give them to my kids now? I don't think so.
UPDATE....
In fairness to Creative, I contacted them about their warning and here is their response. They replied to my E-mail in about 2 hours, so no complaints with customer service!
Dear Customer,
Thank you for contacting Creative Labs.
The cables have a small amount of lead in them. Any time lead is used in a product, California law (where our warehouse is located) requires we place a warning label on them because of the possibility of traces being on the outside as well. There is the possibility of very small traces being on the cable, however, I can assure you all of our cables are washed after production to ensure your safety.
Please retain all the previous correspondence when replying to this email.
Best Regards ,
***Got to thank California for this law. Makes you wonder how many items there are out there that don't require this disclaimer.
 Awful for Audio Books November 3, 2008
Arnim Zola
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
My iPod doesn't allow me to transfer audio books downloaded from my library's website due to digital rights management. This is why I bought this additional MP3 player.
I like the price and form.
But for audio books, this is terrible. It has extremely limited bookmarking. If you turn it off, you can continue where you last left off. But if you switch to another track and then return to the audio book you lose your place. If you connect the Zen Stone to recharge, you also lose your place.
And in the event that you mentally remember the track and time where you last left off, it may take you minutes to get back there. By holding down the forward button, you can scan within a track, but it just jumps forward about 5 seconds for every second that you hold the button down. My old VCR has more advanced searching features than this. At least my VCR speeds up when I hold down the forward button.
Finally, if you intend to listen to this when attached to your car stereo, be very careful about the buttons. I accidentally switched it to play through it's built-in speaker instead of the car speaker by pressing the pause button on top of the MP3 player. It's a pause button ... why should it also switch to the built-in speaker?
UPDATE: If you accidentally leave this MP3 player in the car during a cold night, you will lose all battery power.
 Very Cool MP3 October 13, 2008
WHAT?!?!
This MP3 is very good. It is small, light yet heavy enough so that when you are holding it, you could feel that it is there. However the MP3 suddenly shuts off sometimes for mine. It has a lot of memory space. The speaker is quite good. The sound quality is very very good. Mine came with a sporty strap with sporty headphones and I am quite happy with it.
The MP3 freezes now from time to time and I had to reset it quite a few times. It is annoying...
EDIT (June 14th 2010):
Wow! By accident I left this mp3 in the washing machine for 83 minutes... BUT after a week of drying off... I tried it and it works!!! This humble little mp3 is very durable!
 Amazon sent me wrong ZEN twice! October 11, 2008
dancer lv (las vegas nevada)
I ordered a black zen stone. I recieved a white zen from amazon. I go to the post office return the white one. So finally my next package comes white again! Impossible to get any one on the phone. Thanks amazon. Next time Ill go to best buy. Love the zen even thou its white!
Please make an MP3 player for my dad September 26, 2008
zemes
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
This little thing does so many things, it is incredible. But does it give you a good user experience? It depends. I can imagine a teen who has nimble fingers maneuvering over those little buttons and constantly changing menus, but I bought it for my dad who would like to listen to some recorded educational materials and to record certain lectures and messages. I searched all over to analyze the features and made sure this one does everything he needs, and some.
Well, I realized this isn't what my dad needs the moment I opened the box, and was certain about it within several minutes of using it. He will be frustrated beyond imagination by the constantly changing menu and tiny teeny buttons. In addition to the fact that everything is so small, the navigation menu is extremely confusing, not because of its poor logic or lack of logic, but because of the choice of multifunction multipurpose buttons that are made necessary because of the small size. You can never predict what the button does because not only does it depend on the context (meaning that what the button does depends on where you are at in the navigation system), it also depends on how long you hold it. Using this is almost like playing a game which requires your mind to be engaged with an enemy and predict your enemy's next move. And you enemy intends to defeat you, not to play with you. I got pretty good at that because I am used to this type of navigation and my mind intuitively follows the logic behind it. But not for anyone who is used to equipment on which a button does what its label says it does and nothing else.
Besides, the thing does not give you time to think. Whenever you hesitate just a little bit (say about 5 seconds of inaction), the screen goes off, and that changes the context of menu again. If during those 5 seconds you have been thinking hard what to do, whatever you have figured out has become invalid by this time. It is so fussy, using the thing is like having a conversation with somebody who is extremely impatient. And you can't change the behavior of the screen display. This is not the same as auto power-off feature, which you can adjust within the settings among multiple settings ranging from one minute to 15 minutes. The screen off is a fixed feature. It goes off in about 5-6 seconds (definitely less than 10 seconds) if you have not pushed a button. This is absolutely crazy. I can see the point of saving battery, but given how tiny the screen is, and with my fairly advanced knowledge of electronics, I'm pretty sure that increasing the screen-off time from the current less than 10 seconds to five minutes isn't going to cut the battery time by half. I would rather have something that needs to be charged twice as frequently but with a screen that can stay on for much longer and doesn't drive me crazy.
Manufacturers, listen, not everyone who may benefit from a modern digital audio player/recorder is a teenager or a gamer. Grow up please, at least design one product (among the hundreds) for someone like my dad.
I apologize for voicing such complaints that may seem strange to many of you who are used to this type of product designs. Also, I would be remiss if I don't balance my review by acknowledging its capabilities. If you don't mind its fussy "personality" of this little guy, he can be your very good friend because he can do many things, and does them very well. For example, one of the things that impressed me a lot is its ability to retain the playing location at the time you turn it off. It resumes from where you stopped it last time very reliably. I tried a variety of combinations of what you could do, but the MP3 player in this little gadget never failed to remember it's last position. This may sound strange to you, but this was one of the major frustrations I had with previous generations of MP3 players that were only suitable for listening to short music, but not anything longer like a lecture, a message or an audio book. In addition, despite its tiny size, the speaker is surprisingly loud. And the microphone and recorder aren't a gimmick. They aren't your high-quality audio recorder, but if you ever need to recod a live conversation or message, it does a quite decent job and will give you a clear recording as long as the speaker isn't too far away.
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