Product Description
The Zen Micro 6GB MP3 Player is one of the most imaginative and eye-catching MP3 players to date. This micro-sized player carries 6GB worth of your favorite music, in a tiny, gorgeous design that sets you apart from the crowd. It's designed to look good and feel good - whether it's in your hand or on your belt. But it's got features to match its looks. Shuffle to a different tune with more advanced shuffle features - repeat tracks, shuffle through all your music or just pick the tracks you rarely hear. Its rechargeable lithium-ion battery gives you extended play. Handy personal organizing tools The outstanding audio quality sets a new standard -- one that combines with the incredible size and sleek design gives you audio bliss. Highest audio clarity at 98dB SNR Built-in mic for up to 10 hrs voice recording Also functions as external hard drive for backing up computer files Backlit LCD displays track info Up to 12 hours playback on a single charge USB 2.0 interface (cables incl) Comes with high-fidelity, dynamic bass response earphones Dimensions(HxWxD) - 3.3 x 2 x 0.7 Weight - 3.8 oz. with removable battery
Amazon Product Description
The Zen Micro digital music player from Creative Labs packs an incredible 6 GB of storage capacity into a shell small enough to sit comfortably in your jeans pocket. It also rides nicely in your hand, with a palm-fitting profile and thumb-friendly front-panel controls. It's a bit shorter than an Apple iPod Mini, yet its rechargeable lithium-ion battery provides 12 hours of continuous playback--50 percent more than iPod Mini's. The Zen Micro is compatible not merely with MP3s and WAV files, but with WMA as well. Toss in USB 2.0 connectivity and you're looking at one spiffy portable music player.
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But playing isn't all the Zen Micro does. You can use it to receive FM radio (with 32 station presets to keep your favorites at the ready), and to record, either from the radio or from live sources such as voice dictation or lectures using the built-in condenser microphone.
Trimmed in a luminescent blue glow and with easily visible backlit buttons, this stylish orange player holds up to 1,500 songs (99 hours) at 128 kbps or 3,000 songs (198 hours) at lower-fidelity 64 kbps (MP3/WMA)--that's a solid week's worth of music listening, never playing the same song twice. Compatibility with Microsoft's WMA compressed-audio format grants access to over 2 million downloadable songs offered promotionally or for sale online.
Perhaps the Zen Micro's coolest attribute is its DJ feature, which will shuffle not only all the songs you've loaded or all the songs on a given album, but also, at your discretion, only the tracks you listen to most or the ones you rarely hear, taking the work out of selecting your favorites or hunting out all the music you're still getting to know. |
| For navigation, the device features a vertical, linear touchpad designed to make searching through songs or playlists easy, quick, and fun. The unit's blue, 160 x 104-pixel, electroluminescent LCD shows key functions and song details at a glance, and you can even customize the main menu to keep right at your fingertips the features that matter most to you.
Another of the Zen Micro's handy features is its personal organizer. You'll never forget an important anniversary with the onboard calendar, and it also includes a to-do list and a contacts list, all of which sync seamlessly with Microsoft Outlook (Outlook thus required for use of these features). Further, the device offers a sleep timer and alarm so you can drift off to sleep to the strains of one playlist and wake to a completely different one.
The Zen Micro's removable battery is easy to swap with another fully charged battery (additional batteries sold separately), extending your listening by a half-day per swap. |
Zen Micro's rechargeable battery is easy to replace. |
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Zen Micro's Removable Disk mode lets you connect your player to the computer and directly copy the files you need.
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Vertical touch pad
No more going round in circles to find the song you want, we all know that the quickest distance between two points is a straight line. Zen Micro's vertical touch pad and touch sensitive controls are designed to be intuitive so that searching through songs or playlists is easy, quick and fun - try taking a cruise down this strip.
Removable Disk
Store and transfer not only your favorite tunes, but important data files as well. Zen Micro's Removable Disk mode lets you connect your player to the computer and directly copy the files you need.
Highest audio quality of any MP3 player
Zen MP3 players are renowned for their superior audio quality, and the Zen Micro is no exception. With an outstanding industry leading 98dB signal to noise ratio, you can achieve audio bliss with clarity as good as expensive hi-fi systems. That coupled with high fidelity earphones with dynamic bass response, the Zen Micro not only sets a new standard for sheer style, but for unmatched audio perfection. |
What's in the Box
The Zen Micro player, stereo earbud headphones, a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, a USB 2.0 cable, an installation CD, a quick- start guide, and Creative MediaSource software.
Customer Reviews:
pretty good mp3 player...but it doesnt last too long.......2007-12-10
i've had this mp3 player for about 2 years now and it's been pretty good. Well it was for about a year anyway. After that the buttons pretty much stopped working. At first, it was just one and then gradually they all stopped working. It really sucks because this is a good mp3 player and it holds all my music but now i cant use it because the buttons dont work. Besides the buttons not working, it also doesnt hold a charge for very long. It lasts for about 4 hours until it dies. If you want a mp3 player that lasts long and is durable then you should probably keep looking because this definitly doesnt. But it was good while it lasted =/
AWESOME PRODUCT!!!.......2007-09-26
I've own one of these before and went back to buying another one. GREAT PRODUCT and very user-friendly.
DOES NOT WORK WITH VISTA........2007-09-16
I wish someone had told me that. It doesn't say this anywhere in the specs. It only mentions "minimum requirements."
I just wasted my money.
I love mine! Would be lost with out it........2007-08-18
I've had my Creative Zen 6 GB for almost a year now. It was a little hard to learn, but once you learn it is easy to use. I have 1424 songs on mine and its still not full. Love the sound of it. I would recommend it to anyone, thats tried of portable cd players and wants something smaller and that will hold twice as many songs.
love it.......2007-07-24
this is our 3rd one. love the radio. very easy to use.
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Creative Zen Micro 6 GB MP3 Player Dark Blue
Manufacturer: Creative Labs
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Product Features:
- 12 hours continuous playtime using the supplied rechargeable lithium-ion battery; extend your listening using multiple batteries (sold separately)
- Includes high fidelity earphones and USB 2.0 cable
- Micro-sized 6 GB digital-music player holds 3000 songs at 64 Kbps WMA or 1500 songs at 128 Kbps MP3
- Vertical touch pad simplifies navigation; body is curved to fit your hand
- FM radio with 32 station presets for listening and recording; 10-hour voice recording through built-in microphone
ASIN: B000KAYL50
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Product Description
The Zen Micro 6GB MP3 Player is one of the most imaginative and eye-catching MP3 players to date. This micro-sized player carries 6GB worth of your favorite music, in a tiny, gorgeous design that sets you apart from the crowd. It's designed to look good and feel good - whether it's in your hand or on your belt. But it's got features to match its looks. Shuffle to a different tune with more advanced shuffle features - repeat tracks, shuffle through all your music or just pick the tracks you rarely hear. Its rechargeable lithium-ion battery gives you extended play. Handy personal organizing tools The outstanding audio quality sets a new standard -- one that combines with the incredible size and sleek design gives you audio bliss. Highest audio clarity at 98dB SNR Built-in mic for up to 10 hrs voice recording Also functions as external hard drive for backing up computer files Backlit LCD displays track info Up to 12 hours playback on a single charge USB 2.0 interface (cables incl) Comes with high-fidelity, dynamic bass response earphones Dimensions(HxWxD) - 3.3 x 2 x 0.7 Weight - 3.8 oz. with removable battery
Product Description
For over a century, what has remained constant is GE's dedication to change and progress. And it's what will keep the company growing over the next 100 years. From jet engines to power generation, from financial services to plastics, from television to medical imaging, GE people worldwide are dedicated to turning good ideas into products and services that make the world a better place.
Amazon.com Product Description
The GE 7-2887 Superadio III is a high-performance AM/FM radio with long-range reception for both AM and FM, rotary loudness control, and high-performance station selectivity and sensitivity to ensure good signal reception. A two-speaker sound system with a 6.5-inch woofer offers outstanding sound quality, and separate bass and treble controls let you adjust the sound to your preference. Convenience features include a fold-down handle for easy transport, a headphone jack for personal listening (headphone not included), and two-way power operation with an included power cord or six D batteries.
GE offers a warranty of a year on parts and 90 days on labor for the 7-2887 Superadio.
Customer Reviews:
Good performance for the money.......2007-12-14
Build is not as cheap as other reviewers led me to believe. You have to remember, this radio only costs $45. The sound from the large 2 way speaker is great ...... think of it as a speaker with a radio attached. The sound is much better than my $150 Sony ICF-SW7600 GR. Of course, the Sony is a much more advanced and sophisticated radio. As a general 'round the house radio this thing is great. It has great sound for NPR and AM talk programs. The FM reception is great, and the AM reception for my local stations is very good during the day. At night this thing pulls in some pretty distant AM stations. Sitting on my front porch in Central Florida, I've pulled in Nashville, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Bahamas ........ I can't wait to see what it pulls in with an auxiliary AM antenna.
As many reviewers have pointed out, the frequency you're receiving and the number on the dial have little to do with each other. My dial seems to be off by 1/2" on the lower AM frequencies, and more on the higher frequencies. CCrane will repair this for a modest fee ..... I'm debating on having it done.
If you want a simple, quirky, radio with great sound and reception, you can't beat the Superadio III for $45. Get it now, they seem to be harder and harder to find.
Best sound, Indifferent quality, poor ergonomics.......2007-12-06
As a professional broadcaster for many years, I LIKE radios a lot. I've lived with my Superadio for about 10 years.
THE BAD: the ergonomics of the unit, the "human engineering", is pretty awful. The rotating pots for volume and tone are often sticky and gritty right out of the box. The plastic toggles for band, AFC, narrow/wide AM, are as cheap and cheesy as can be made and still function most of the time. The big tuner knob is pretty good, though. I don't get much drift once I set a station. The calibration of the dial is comically inaccurate, however, so the frequency markings are pretty much just a rough guide.
The form factor is another annoyance. Center of gravity is high so the unit tips over easily, and sometimes even adjusting the volume is a two-handed operation -- one to hold the unit and the other to twist the gritty little knob.
Overall build quality is not very high, and many purchased units are defective. Anyone who complains that they can't get decent reception or the sound is bad on their Superadios have defective units. That's the only possible explanation.
THE GOOD: The sound is absolutely glorious. Nothing can touch it in its class, and for twice the money. In addition to the large speaker the unit boasts a small tweeter. Voice or music, it offers the best sound you can get in a portable radio.
Reception is likewise incredibly impressive. Listening to AM at night is a real trip, literally. This is one of the reasons that there is no digital tuning on this model. A dial setup will pull in stations much better than a typical digital tuner will. "Digital" is not always best.
Battery life seems infinite.
BOTTOM LINE: This is the radio for people, and only for those people, who want the best available sound from a table/portable radio. Dontcha all be lookin' for clocks and alarms and doodads on this sweet thing, now. It's ugly, downright fugly, with iffy build and questionable design. But once tuned in, the glory of the sonics will be a reminder of a little money very well spent indeed.
I've owned two for fifteen years -- fantastic.......2007-11-30
This is just a fantastic product.
I've owned two for fifteen years and hope they never stop making this model in case I want another.
The sound is great, the reception is great, the price (was) great; the durability is great and the battery usage is great. It's all great.
It is certainly not "feature rich" but who needs all that nonsense for AM and FM radio? More feature would just get in my way.
TIP: The radio has a ground screw on the back which I'm guessing most people don't use. After hooking up a long wire outdoor antenna, I noticed that what really helped AM DX reception was the ground!
I bought a grounding rod from Radio Shack to isolate the radio from the noisy house wiring system. (I pounded in the rod in the ground outside the house.) That REALLY helped! So much so, that I removed the wire antenna and now only use the ground.
Good Old School Radio.......2007-11-05
Good sound, good options. A bit larger than you might think from the picture. Sound is good, as is reception. I have it on the back corner of the desk as background music.
RCA Superadio III.......2007-09-21
This was the worst radio I ever tried in over 60 years. It only tuned one strong local AM station and that took up a large part of the dial. Another local AM station that all 9 radios in the house receive with ease could not be tuned in. I think I believe the reviews, though, and assume that the quality of current production is so poor or variable that a number of these radios, with once a good reputation, can no longer be expected to function. They were quick to refund my money.
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