Gadget Review: Creative Zen Micro Photo (8GB)

Posted on 31 January 2008
Tags: Gadgets

Creative Zen MicroPhoto Features:

This Creative Zen Micro has amazingly vivid images and color with OLED screen. Slim and curvy MP3 player. Available to store up to 8GB and I’m sure, this will attract everyone attention that had no money to buy Apple iPod (just kidding, ). This OLED screen will catch your eyes attention. What the heck is OLED? OLED is stand for Organic Light-Emitting Diode, used to display hundreds of thousands brilliant color and vivid color. OLED technology color is brighter, very thin, fast and light than any others ordinary LCD. What does this mean? You can view your photos and video from any angle with these crystal clear color photos. This Zen also use less power, then you can use more longer.

Touch Pad

- explore through your music and photo collection with easy, this was patent by Creative. The Vertical Touch Pad makes you to access your music or photos more easy and fast. You can shuffle your music, get your favorite albums, and enjoy your family and friends photos.

Colors

- amazingly vivid colors. You can transfer any pictures from your PC to Creative Zen MicroPhoto, then that photos will automatically converted to small JPEG for your viewing. You also can use that photo to use as wallpaper on your Creative Zen MicroPhoto.

Music

- You can store your song up to 4000 on 8GB Zen MicroPhoto or 266 hours of song hearing. With original battery, you can hear song up to 15 hours non-stop with single charge. If you’re on traveling on bus or train, your journey will become more fun and musical and you can tune into FM Radio for more news, reports or anything.

Program

- you get calender, task list and contact list (seam as Microsoft Outlook) and you’ll never miss your meeting, anniversary, or birthday because of enjoyment of this Creative Zen MicroPhoto.

Freedom

- you can get access to over 1 Million songs with monthly or annual subscription with Napster To Go or Rhapsody To Go. Just listen, download and transfer to your lovely Creative Zen MicroPhoto. You can use Creative MediaSource if you want to rip your own CD’s.

Protection

- if you purchase any Creative Zen MicroPhoto, your player includes with 1-year parts/ 90 day labor warranty and 60 days telephone support.

Creative Zen MicroPhoto Specifications:

Size: 2″ x 3.3″ x 0.7″ (width x height x dimension)
Weight: 3.8oz with battery
Capacity Storage: 8GB (up to 4000 songs)
Life of Battery: 15 hours with continuous playing music
Interface: USB 2.0
Audio Support: MP3 ( MPEG Audio Layer 3), WMA (Windows Media Audio), and WAV
Signal-to-noise Ratio: up to 98db
Display: Color OLED screen and 160×160 pixel resolution
Features:

You can set photos as your player wallpaper

8 different backlight color options (fire, jungle, pastel, romantic, peace, cool, earth, vibrant)

FM radio

Voice recorder

Calender, tasks, contacts book

Repeat, resume and random playing

Sleep and wake up timers

Custom main menu

Also functional as external hard drive

8 equalizer settings (acoustic, classical, disco, jazz, new age, pop, rock and vocal)

Creative Zen MicroPhoto Software:

What software you will get for this package?

Creative MediaSource Player and Organizer

You can use this software to import music from your PC and transfer into your Creative Zen MicroPhoto, and this software also your music center for playing mp3, organize and transfer digital music

Zen Media Explorer

Gives you ease to manage your music tracks and files of data on your Creative Zen MicroPhoto just like Window Explorer environment for your easy management

Windows Media Player 10

Creative Zen MicroPhoto Requirements:

What is the minimum system requirements for this player?

Microsoft Windows XP (service pack 1 and higher) or XP with 64-bit
Intel Pentium II 350MHz or AMD K6 450MHz (recommended for Pentium III 450MHz if you want to encode MP3)
64MB RAM (I recommended for 128MB)
At least USB 2.0 (if your PC don’t support this, the transfer times more slower)
Hard drive space for 30MB (for audio content store)
CD-ROM drive with digital audio extraction support