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Creative Zen Touch

Wednesday December 08, 2004
Written by Ross Burridge
Tags: mp3 | portable | cheese
AUD
$499
Price at time of review.
As far as many people are concerned there's only one MP3 player. Love it or hate it, the iPod has entered the public consciousness and become an icon. So it's no surprise that everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon.
 
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Apple iPod touch 3rd Generation (64 GB) MP3 Player

MPN: MC011LL/A, 64 GB (Built-in Memory), 16000 Songs, 4.05 oz., Audio Files: MP3, WAV, AAC, MP3 VBR, AIFF, Audible. Video Files: H...

iPod touch is a great iPod for enjoying music, television shows, movies and podcasts. iPod touch has incredible features for music fans such as Cover Flow®, Shake to Shuffle™, and access to the legendary iTunes® Store. The iPod touch supports Genius Mixes, which automatically creates up to 12 endless mixes of songs from your iTunes library that go great together. Movies and television shows look great on the gorgeous 3.5-inch widescreen display. iPod touch customers have the entire iTunes Store catalog at their fingertips, giving them instant access to the world’s largest catalog of over 11 million songs, TV shows and Hollywood movies to purchase and download directly to their iPod touch.

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Sony Walkman NWZ-X1050 (16 GB) Digital Media Player

16 GB (Built-in Memory), 4100 Songs, 3.46 oz., Audio Files: MP3, WMA, AAC, IMA ADPCM. Video Files: MPEG-4, MPEG-1, DivX, WMV, AVI,...

The 16GB X Series has enough storage capacity for 4,000 songs or 60 hours of video.The X Series offers unrivalled features and incredible audio and visual quality and supports a vast range of formats including MP3, WMA, LPCM, AAC, AVI, WMV and more so you can play a range of tracks and videos, whatever the source.The X Series also has a built in FM tuner so you can enjoy your favourite radio stations to on the move.The X Series is beautifully designed. It comes in a stunning graphite finish, with aluminium buttons and is built to feel slim yet solid. With a crystal clear OLED touchscreen, integrated noise-cancellation, built-in Wi-Fi for browsing the web or watching YouTube, and support for high-quality video, it's the ultimate digital media player.

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Creative Technology ZEN X-Fi (16 GB) Digital Media Player

16 GB (Built-in Memory), 4000 Songs, 2.4 oz., Audio Files: MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, Audible. Video Files: MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, WMV, MJPG...

Indulge in rich audio where you can hear your music in crystal clear clarity. Take in guitar strumming, crisp cymbal clashes and deep pounding bass as detail lost during file compression are now beautifully restored. The built-in X-Fi technology intelligently moves a conventional left/right earphone stereo source away from your ears, virtually expanding it for an audio experience with a breathtakingly realistic depth of field. You'll feel as if you were listening to your music from a pair of high end speakers.

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Cowon Systems iAUDIO D2 (16 GB) Digital Media Player

16 GB (Built-in Memory), 4100 Songs, 3.21 oz., Audio Files: MP3, WAV, WMA, Ogg Vorbis. Video Files: MPEG-4, WMV, AVI. Display Size...

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Cowon Systems O2 (32 GB) Digital Media Player

32 GB (Built-in Memory), 8000 Songs, 7.23 oz., Audio Files: MP3, WAV, WMA, ASF, Ogg Vorbis, AC3. Video Files: WMV, AVI, MTV. Displ...

The O2 32GB(Black) Portable Media Player from Cowon is a media hungry device with a vibrant 4.3" touch screen in a hand held powered device. The O2 is powered by the Davinci chipset for handling various codecs so you can spend more time enjoying your media instead of decoding it.

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Creative Technology ZEN X-Fi (8 GB) Digital Media Player

8 GB (Built-in Memory), 2000 Songs, 2.4 oz., Audio Files: MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, Audible. Video Files: MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, WMV, MJPG....

Indulge in rich audio where you can hear your music in crystal clear clarity. Take in guitar strumming, crisp cymbal clashes and deep pounding bass as detail lost during file compression are now beautifully restored. The built-in X-Fi technology intelligently moves a conventional left/right earphone stereo source away from your ears, virtually expanding it for an audio experience with a breathtakingly realistic depth of field. You'll feel as if you were listening to your music from a pair of high end speakers.

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Price: $150 - $170
Cowon Systems D2 (8 GB) Digital Media Player

8 GB (Built-in Memory), 2000 Songs, 3.21 oz., Audio Files: MP3, WAV, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, WMA (DRM). Video Files: MPEG-4, WMV, AVI. Di...

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Copyright © 2009 Dennis Publishing

This article appeared in the January, 2005 issue of PC Authority.
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