ZEN X-FI 8GB MP3 WMA

It comes packaged inside a thick-plastic sealed blister package. Once that is removed, the primary packaging is revealed - a HARD plastic (about 1mm thick) sealed, clear clam-shell with the X-Fi suspended inside on a transparent plastic platform. It looks really cool... until you try to open the thing. Seriously, people - be careful. You can injure yourself very seriously using the amount of force necessary to penetrate this anti-theft packaging on steroids.

Enough about the packaging.

The player itself is an attractive, slim, glossy black device with a large screen that can do all sorts of things. You can read the specs above I'm sure so I won't get into all the details, but let's just say that it does about 75% of its functions very well. The other functions you'll probably never want to use.

The things it does well: Music, movies, pictures, storage, microphone.
The things it does terribly: Everything else (instant messaging,...Read more

I enjoy this player very much. Play divx e xvid videos in your resolution, but don't make upscaling. Good mp3 player.
I do the firmware update, and since then the player don't crash anymore.

I enjoy using my new Zen because it is easy to use and can play videos also. I am a heart transplant patient and I use it when I go for my biospies. The only thing that I wish it had would be a wrist strap to make it easy to carry.