Creative MP3 Players

Creative Zen X-Fi

Creative shows no signs of deviating from its plan to offer feature-packed players at impressively low price points -- their new MP3 player, the Zen X-Fi, is a compact multimedia machine that's the first portable device to integrate Creative's X-Fi technology. The rich, clear and detailed audio quality further adds to the value of this player

User rating 9.0

Editor's rating 7.5

Creative Zen Mozaic

The Creative Zen Mozaic offers terrific sound quality and a decent feature set, and at a penny under £120 with a 16GB capacity, it's superb value. Considering its main competitor is the £150 iPod nano, that's a steal -- but there are a few flaws indicating precisely how it's so affordable, such as the screen quality

Editor's rating 7.0

Creative Zen Stone Plus with Speaker

If you liked the original, you're going to love the Creative Zen Stone Plus with Speaker. It's looking a whole lot more professional these days in an attractive matte finish and with excellent battery life, it's a great choice for listening to podcasts on a roadtrip

Editor's rating 8.0

Creative Zen Stone with Speaker

The iPod shuffle had better watch out -- the Creative Zen Stone with Speaker is an updated version of the Zen Stone with -- you guessed it -- a teeny speaker on its backside. In either a 1GB or 2GB version, it's both affordable and good looking, so the competition is heating up

Editor's rating 7.0

Creative Zen

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 sounds that will please even hardened critics

User rating 8.0

Editor's rating 7.8

Creative Zen Stone Plus

A mere month after its little brother launched, the Zen Stone Plus is here, with everything the lovely original model did, plus a tiny OLED screen, twice the storage capacity, an FM radio, a voice recorder and even a stopwatch

User rating 6.0

Editor's rating 7.7

Creative Zen Stone

Creative's Zen Stone is an 'us too!' attempt to knock Apple's iPod Shuffle from the throne of teeny MP3 king. At just under £30, it's half the price of the Shuffle, but is it too cheap to be any good?

User rating 3.0

Editor's rating 6.3

Creative Zen V Plus

An attractive 8GB flash-based MP3 player with a plethora of features, the Creative Zen V Plus shows even well-established players such as the iPod nano how things could be done with a little extra thought

Editor's rating 8.0

Creative Zen Vision:M (30GB)

Though it's not as small as the new iPod, and its interface doesn't trump the Clickwheel, the 30GB Zen Vision:M is a real video player -- while on the iPod, video remains a novelty. It's slightly more expensive than Apple's world-conqueror, but the improved screen and number of video formats available more than make up for it

User rating 7.8

Editor's rating 8.3

Creative Zen Micro Photo (8GB)

As a portable audio player, the Creative Zen Micro Photo is top-notch, and it makes a decent photo viewer. Unfortunately, it doesn't integrate the two as well as we'd expect at this point in the photo MP3 player game

User rating 8.0

Editor's rating 8.3

Creative Zen Nano Plus (1GB)

Given the recent launch of Apple's iPod nano, the Creative Zen Nano -- which came out first -- is very unfortunately named. This is unfair, as they're aimed at different markets -- the Zen Nano is half the price, has only 1GB of memory and a small black-and-white screen. It offers decent sound and it's perfectly usable, but the build quality's not all it could be

User rating 6.0

Editor's rating 6.3

Creative Zen Sleek (20GB)

Unlike many MP3 players trying to steal some reflected glory from the iPod, the Zen Sleek syncs easily with PCs and looks lovely. An overly complicated navigation system, which occasionally produces annoying pop-up menus, marrs the overall effect

User rating 8.0

Editor's rating 6.8

Creative Zen Touch (40GB)

Creative has a long history of delivering decent, hard drive-based MP3 players. Its flagship model, the Zen Touch, takes the Creative name to new heights. Redesigned from the ground up, the Zen Touch includes modern delights such as an innovative touch-sensitive scroll pad

User rating 8.0

Editor's rating 7.3

Creative MuVo Micro N200 (1GB)

User rating 7.5

Editor's rating 8.3

Creative Zen Micro (5GB)

User rating 7.0

Editor's rating 8.3