Unfortunately, this puts your headphones in a ridiculous position directly beside the menu buttons — which makes them more difficult to operate with headphones plugged in. Finally, at the top sits the SD-card input and a microphone. Features Before the iPod Touch and the iPhone appeared, the Creative Zen family had one of the most complete feature sets available. Of course, with "touch" being the latest technology buzzword, the X-Fi has to make up for not having a touch interface with a bunch of other features.
At present, you're able to browse a shared music library and "chat" with other Zen X-Fi users. The reason it's called the X-Fi, of course, is because it features X-Fi "upscaling" and other trick modes designed to make compressed music sound better. Other features include a voice recorder, a personal organiser, photo viewing and a radio.
Like many recent players from Sony, Creative offers you the choice of drag-and-drop or Windows Media Player for updating your files. The company also has its Centrale player, which looks nice but lacks the power of WMP or iTunes: for example, you can't right-click icons or download missing cover art.
Unfortunately, it won't support Windows Lossless, so if you want a lossless format you'll have to go for WAV files and the significant storage hit they pose.
Performance Despite the number of bolted-on, Frankenstein features an MP3 player might have, it is performance that should be paramount. Thankfully, the X-Fi is a competent, musical performer. The X-Fi has a richer, sprightlier sound than the Vision W which makes it a little more exciting and involving. This also means that you'll need a set of headphones that can tame this forward sound a little to prevent the sound becoming wearing. While the set that ships with the player is one of the better sets we've heard, we think you'd need to go a pair of closed phones to get the best sound.
Despite the dubious marketing materials, we don't think the on-board speaker is going to rock any parties.
The vocals of Portishead's Silence are clear, but when the track gets more stringent it sounds confused and buzzy. This really is no better than the speakers you'll find on mobiles. A move that would usually indicate an attempt to clear out inventory as the company prepares for a new flag-ship product. However, given the global economic situation and Creative's own internal meltdown , let's just say we're not too hopeful. All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company.
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