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Title: Creative Zen
Pros: Sound quality; design; price; good range of extra features; great screen; good capacity options; SD expansion
Cons: Slightly sluggish menus; only available in black; no hard disk option; SD card contents not included in player's main menu
Verdict: The Creative Zen looks great, sounds great and produces great video. It's a full-featured player with plenty of options for customisation. Although the SD card slot is a huge bonus, its contents are not included in the player's main menu, limiting its use
Summary: The Creative Zen is a lightweight, glossy multimedia player with an attractive finish. It has loads of playback options, and you can expand capacity with SD or SDHC cards. Your music will be in good hands, too, as the Zen produces clean and powerful sound
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78/100 |
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Title: Creative Zen
Pros: Sound quality; design; price; good range of extra features; great screen; good capacity options; SD expansion
Cons: Slightly sluggish menus; only available in black; no hard disk option; SD card contents not included in player's main menu
Verdict: The Creative Zen looks great, sounds great and produces great video. It's a full-featured player with plenty of options for customisation. Although the SD card slot is a huge bonus, its contents are not included in the player's main menu, limiting its use
Summary: The Creative Zen is a lightweight, glossy multimedia player with an attractive finish. It has loads of playback options, and you can expand capacity with SD or SDHC cards. Your music will be in good hands, too, as the Zen produces clean and powerful sound
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78/100 |
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Title: Review: Sandisk Sansa C250 mp3 player
Pros: small, light, easy to use
Cons: poor screen for anything other than scrolling the player's options
Verdict: For anyone that wants a budget mp3 player with decent functions, a basic colour screen and the option of expansion, this is well worth its money.
Summary: Light, low-cost 2GB mp3 player
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80/100 |
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Title: SanDisk Sansa e260
Pros: Great sound quality, Large display, Video playback, FM radio, MicroSD expansion slot, USB drag-n-drop, Good battery life
Cons: Twice as thick as the Nano, Not as good looking as the Nano
Summary: Does SanDisk's Sansa score over the iPod Nano? Find out...
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80/100 |
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Title: SanDisk Sansa View
Pros: Incredible value; photo and video support; microSD card slot; FM radio and voice recorder; relatively large screen; separate podcast menu for easy sorting of content
Cons: Bulky; onscreen interface is somewhat uninspiring; small centre select button may present a problem for some users
Verdict: If you value features and price over a flashy interface and excellent sound quality, the SanDisk Sansa View digital media player is definitely worth a look. It's easy to use and offers a relatively large screen and a memory expansion option
Summary: The SanDisk Sansa View is an 8GB digital media player that offers a vast array of features at a pleasingly low price. Features include photo and video support, a microSD card slot, FM radio and voice recording, to add to a music player that produces high-
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73/100 |
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Title: Archos 105
Pros: Design; price; fairly easy to use after practice; bookmarking option; drag and drop support
Cons: Average sound quality; no included software for video conversion; average battery life; poor screen
Verdict: A distinctly affordable player but very average performance and feature set reflects this. If you're eager to have video alongside your music and are on a tight budget, you'll probably be happy. If you're not fussed about video, or can stretch to a few mo
Summary: The Archos 105 is a flash-based MP3 and video player, which is available at a bargain price. It looks good -- it's slim and weightless yet still has a rugged feel. The player is easy to use and you can sort music by album, artist, song, genre and release
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56/100 |
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