Review Of The Creative Zen MX
MP3 Players — on September 28, 2009 at 10:45 am | Comment NowThe Sum ‘n’ Substance:
Thumbs up: Good user-interface; reasonably priced; personalized alarm; memory is expandable.
Thumbs down: Screen is small; exclusion of features such as AAC support and the itunes AAC support; not much different from the previous model.
Inside the trunk:
Memory capacity of 16 GB; FM radio; 2.5 inch TFT LCD with resolution of 320 x 240 pixels; SD/SDHC Memory Card Compatibility with a Card Reader; Video Playback; Voice Recording; built-in Lithium Ion Battery; 30hours continuous audio playback and 5hours continuous video playback.
The whiz kid speaks: Creative has launched the Zen Mx a follow up to the much acclaimed Zen and supposedly, an answer to Apples revamped Nano. But there a few glaring faults in the MX, that threaten it from becoming a successful MP3. Let’s find out.
Starting with the design, Creative have barely deviated with the design on the MX , making it a carbon copy of the older Zen. It still sports the excellent, glossy black, 2.5 inch, TFT LCD screen with a very good resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. Much of the navigational buttons remain unchanged. The only difference so far, is that, the hold key has been replaced with a menu option which can be dedicated to a soft key.
Other than that, features like its ability to expand its memory to almost double through the SD cards and the awesome user friendly menu system have still been retained.
Some of the other features include a radio, fixed audio presets, personalized memo recorder and a personal alarm alert. The sound quality was excellent with, deep bass and clear trebles. The video quality was good too, colours were naturally displayed in the small 2.5 inch screen. The creative MX also features a lithium–ion built in rechargeable battery, which can last up to 30 hours on continuous audio playback and an approximate 5 hours of continuous video playback.
All the features mentioned above are also found on the older Zen. What’s new on the MX is that, it does not support, AAC files any more, even the itunes AAC support what the older Zen could play has been removed. To make it worse, the video formats all have to be converted to the proprietary .CMV. The screen is also very tiny to watch a video or movie for more than 20 minutes.
On one side you have Apple who is going on expanding the feature list of the ipod (like the inclusion of the pedometer , radio and the camera) and improving its functionality in terms of performance and here we have Creative which instead of adding features and improving its performance to compete with apple, is dropping features which was present on it older models.
Nitty gritty: The Zen MX is easy to plug and play and is pretty light in weight. It also has good user-interface and stylishly designed but the exclusion of features like the lack of AAC and DivX support has really not earned any brownie points for the player. The older Zen is still more appealing than the MX let alone the new Nano. The Creative Zen MX will retail for approximately $ 80.
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