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Creative ZEN X-Fi Reviews Analysis
Portable network audio player / radio - flash 16 GB - WMA, AAC, MP3, protected WMA (DRM 10) - video playback... More product details
1842 reviews
March, 2010
74 Experts
Product Age
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1768 Users
What people think about the Creative ZEN X-Fi: (BETA!)
alaTest has collected and analyzed 1772 reviews from magazines and websites. Reviewers really like the appearance. The portability also impresses, but many are less positive about the performance.
Experts rate this product 73/100 and users 79/100. We analyzed these ratings, the product age and more factors. Compared to other mp3 players, the Creative ZEN X-Fi is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 96/100 = Excellent quality.
price
1
- is a little small for watching lengthy TV shows or movies
- and price
- Very cost competitive as compared to Ipod
- Great capacity for price
- it has a wonderful set of features at a great price
- Price
- Playing tracks is a little fiddly
- Price and IM tool
- Controls could be a little easier to figure out
- buttons could take a little while to get use to could be confusing for first-timer
- The incredible EP-830 earphones (a $50 value
- Good Price
- value for money product,feature rich
- Great to hold a bunch of family pics and have a little slide show for someone
- Great features,support and price
- It takes up such little space
- fairer Preis
- The cost of the unit is simply not worth it
- price higher
- Price Gao Xie
- Expensive (but worth it!)
- Expensive
- the price
- takes a big chunk of money out your pocket
- the wireless internet is a little dodgy at times
- and the Hard drive is a little small
- pricey
- expensive and hard to put songs on
- Relatively expensive
- Very expensive for what it is
- Need to buy the more expensive model to get a decent choice of colours
- cost of downloads
- 79p a song is expensive
- A bit pricey
- It is quite expensive at £269
- Podcasts are a little boring
- billig wirkendes Kunststoffdesign
- Preis
interface
3.5
- attractive interface
- The interface is great
- great interface
- Great User Interface
- User interface needs work
- terrible interface (sw
- "Creative Labs Media Source" is a much better interface with Windows
- Not-so Intuitive Interface
appearance
5
- plays any Windows format music as well as iPod format files
- Good Look
- outside the beautiful appearance
- Sleek and sexy MP3 player
- nice to look at
- Sleek
battery
4
- good screen and battery life
- impressive battery life for music
- Battery
- great battery life
- good battery life
- Which are meant to use more energy
- so-so battery charge life
- I'm talking about having it ONLY on the table in front of me and playing through 1 battery recharge
- VERY SHORT BATTERY LIFE
- Battery life isn't as advertised with the screen backlight on
- Battery life is very
- Long battery life
- long battery
- up to 30 hours playback
- Battery life
- Akku
- Battery drains quite quickly
- and not too much battery power
- non removable battery
- Battery is a bit poor
- Poor Battery Life
- runs out of battery sometimes
- Kurze Akkulaufzeit
lcd
5
- the screen is lovely
- It's 2.5 inch screen
- Good Screen
- Stunning 2.5" screen
- and yet it still has a crystal clear 2.5" TFT screen
- Smallish screen
- average quality screen
- screen is "finger print magnet"
- screen stays on unless on 'hold
- screen reasonably easy to crack
- beautiful screen
- screen
- bright screen
- lovely screen display
- nice screen
- Amazing screen
- gorgeous screen
- hübscher Bildschirm
- Gutes Display
- Großes Display
- Großes und Helles Display
- Screen gets covered with fingerprints constantly
- Small screen and rubbish earphones
performance
2
- Videos are quick to load and smooth
- radio sintonizing speed
- very good and re-charging is lightening quick
- In term of perform wise
- quick charging
- but it’s a flawed execution
- performance
- Some Lag and Freezing..(not that often
- Lacks in looks and is slow in navigation
- Youtube is slow
- Slow
- Geschwindigkeit der Videocodierung
usability
5
- Easy-to-use menus
- easy to use software
- relatively simple to use after a bit of practice
- intuitive controls
- I love the DJ features and use them the most
- not the most intuitive to use
- Cluttered navigation controls
- It really isn't that easy to use the messenger features or basically to spell you anything
- Button controls take some time to get used to
- Easy to carry
- easy navigation
- easy UI
- Easy to use controlls
- The menus are easy to use and overall it is very user friendly
- Easy to use
- ease of use
- not as hard to use as others thought - just use the menu button
- many easy to use features
- easy to use and will provide hours of amusement
- Small and easy to use
- easy to download music
- great to use
- Small and compact and easy to use
- easy to use interface
- Simple
- easy to use interface with lots of available accessories
- looks gorge and is soooo easy to use
- leicht zu erlnende Bedienung
- Controls not user-friendly
- (But you don't have to use it
- back of it scratches very easy
- Easy scratching rear and easy fingerprinting gla
- controls may not be to everyone's liking
- Sometimes not as easy to use as you would like
- Easy scratched
- Easy To Break
design
5
- Stylish design
- nice looks
- sleek design
- attractive design
- looks fantastic
- derivative iPhone styling
- If you looking for that Apple is the great ones
- lacks imagination in design
- deffinatly the upgrade im looking for
- Nice design - even if it is a gigabeat rip off
- perfect in looking
- good design
- very stylish
- and it looks awesome
- Looks very cool
- Looks Great
- Super Cool Design
- great design
- stylish
- nice design
- cute ipod with pleasant
- Design
memory
5
- This swanky MP3 player squeezes in up to 32GB of storage
- large storage capacity
- You can hook it up to any computer and sync music
- expandable memory
- Storage capacity for the price
- Expandable memory is not integrated
- SD card Memory will not integrate with system music/viideo library
- No mass storage support
- Only chargable through computer
- limited 16GB flash memory
- 32gb of Flash Memory
- Hi memory
- huge storage capacity
- flash memory
- reasonable amount of storage
- Easy to put files on from computer and good quality of programmes that can be watched
- storage
- Large memory for size
- Tons of storage
- Plenty of memory and high quality everything
- Memory size
- Massive Storage Space &
- Mega Memory
- Lots Of Memory
- Speicher erweiterbar
connectivity
4.5
- WiFi capability
- X-Fi sound enhancement technology
- and the rated battery life for audio is impressive
- Wi-Fi capability
- Music and video streaming over Wi-Fi
- The Creative Zen X-Fi plastic construction does not feel high-quality
- Audio battery life is dismal
- The Creative Zen X-Fi's plastic construction does not feel high-quality
- audio lacks refinement
- The Zen X-Fi packs in Wi-Fi
- the Zen X-Fi is proof great things really do come in the tiniest packages
- using Creative’s X-Fi (Xtreme Fidelity
- Good Audio
- detailed audio quality
- Audio Quality
- Great packed in earbuds + EQ and X-Fi = Great adjustable sound
- has great audio and video quality
- iPod nano 4th vs Creative Zen X-Fi
- good ideal on the wifi chatting & streaming
- wi-fi
- Great Quality of Music with X-Fi Turned Off
- X-Fi is completely fake upgrade
- Streaming thru in hine wi fi network worked flawlessly and allowed for access to even more content than the on board 16gb
- The X-Fi technology gives this player a nearly incomparable clarity and warmth
- Excellent audio and video quality
- Wi-Fi (even though its a bit hard to set up
- Good audio quality apparently
- first to have a advance audio tech built-into a mp3/4 player WI-FI and it has an option of 8GB 16GB 32GB with External Memory Support (thumbs up for it)
- The audio options are quite fancy
- Wifi support
- good wifi
- high quality audio and screen
- Great quality video and audio
- Great Audio &
- bluetooth
- USB powered
- WiFi
- Wireless connectivity of limited usefulness
- X-Fi modes not worth using
- Underwhelming audio enhancement
- Sharp highs with X-Fi - ON
- X-Fi features make sound worse (but they are optional)
- the WiFi function is useless
- wifi aspect needs to be worked on
- Does not work well with audio adapter in my car
- X-Fi is meant to provide a backup of 30+ hours of music and 5+ hours of video however the music backup is only 11 - 15 hrs with X-Fi features Turned OFF
- usb connector for charging is shorter
- Price- flash is still too expensive- i'd rather buy an ipod classic 80GB than a 16GB zen x-fi for more money
- limited wifi application
- small screen,wifi
- There's supposedly wi-fi but it's a pain
- USB cable provided far too short
- The Cretive Zen X-fi alphanumeric keypad frustrating to use for extended chatting
- No wi-fi
- tatsächliche Akkulaufzeit bei Audio recht niedrig
- kurzes USB-Kabel
- kurzes USB Kabel
build quality
1
- well built
- WELL
- and worked well
- Well built music player with quality throughout
- Cheap
- Plastic construction does not feel high-quality
- There's also a built-in chat application
- Plastic body feels cheap
- but durable
- The cheap feel that a lot of people are talking about is primarily true
- Although I believe the build quality to be above average
- plastic feels cheap
- Feels cheap
- Build quality
- Cheap headphones
- Feels too small
sound
5
- Sound quality is top-notch
- top-notch sound quality
- and sound astonishingly good
- sound
- crisp sound
- the worse sound you could expect from this kind of reader (150 EU is an awful lot to me
- the sound will get very loud very quickly as the volume increases
- Good sound quality
- Very good sound quality
- Good sound
- sound quality
- + Unprocessed sound quality is top notch
- Great sound quality
- Outstanding sound reproduction
- Superb sound quality
- Fantastic sound quality
- radio sound quality
- Excellent Sound
- Excellent sound quality
- Built-in EQ and other sound enhancing options get the most out of any headphone
- sound brilliant
- Beautiful sound
- Great sound even with standard ear buds
- The sound is absolutely best in class
- Great Sound
- HIGH quality sound n a splendid screen
- the sound is fantastic and the headphones are solid
- I don't use all of them but it everyone likes different sound so I suppose it covers all aspects
- I like punchy sound and this thing has it
- and the ear bud sound quality is fantastic the only Ear Buds I have liked so far
- sound quality is very nice
- I purchased this unit about a year ago and the sound quality is beyond great
- It outdoes the ipod in sound quality
- both have produced fine sound
- fantastic sound
- Sound quality is very good
- Elegant design,powerful sound
- CREATIVEZEN sound quality
- The sound effect stick
- Superior sound quality that makes non-stop rocking possible
- Great sound and visual quality
- Great looking with perfect sound
- Good quality sound and screen
- Sound Quality and Easy Navigation
- Sound Qaulity
- Sound very good
portability
5
- Nice compact player bursting with features
- The reason I say it's perfect is because it is a compact
- lightweight
- pocketable
- Fairly small and compact
- It is very lightweight
- Gewicht
- Like a laptop in your pocket
- very slim
- small and slim
- small and compact
- slim
- thin
size
5
- Size
- Ideal screen size and colors
- perfect size
- Big beautiful screen
- Screen size and quality exceptional
- but no big deal
- screen size
- fairly big (but good for movies
- Größe
- Big screen
- Large screen
- Size is perfect
- large 3" screen
- Capacity and size
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