Creative ZEN X-Fi Expert Reviews

Creative Zen has brought out the ever formidable Zen that's always looking promising with a few tweaks here and there with each new version. This one's called the X-Fi 2 and derives its name from the X-Fi audio enhancing technology that has been added ...

Enjoy better sound with Creative ZEN X-Fi, an all-around digital music player that boasts a variety of features. It sports an SD, mini SD, and micro SD cards, with 320×240 resolution on a 2.5-inch color screen, with headphone, microphone, and USB ...

Despite its crippled WiFi, the Zen X-Fi has a lot to offer your ears.

Very good sound quality; included ear buds are excellent; attractive interface

Buttons are small and are not backlit; lacks wireless sync and web browsing

The first Wi-Fi-enabled Zen offers excellent sound, but drops the ball with a confusing control scheme.

Clean, crisp sound, SD Card slot, Comfortable bundled earbuds, Audiobook support

Cluttered navigation controls, Underwhelming audio enhancement, Non-JPEG photo files need to be transcoded, No predictive text when instant messaging

Staying connected to Wi-Fi takes a heavy toll on battery life (half an hour of wireless use drained a freshly charged player by 25 percent), but you can turn it off in the system settings. Creative rates the Zen X-Fi's battery life at 36 hours for ...

The amazing Zen X-Fi has great sound, features, headphones, and storage options--and for a nice price, too.

Nice features, sound, earbuds, and price ; Networking and streaming capabilities

Plastic body feels cheap, but durable ; Small screen for video and photos

Minor issues like the chat malfunctions can't take the shine off of the Creative X-Fi. It's an outstanding digital music player that rises to the top with ease. The masses may continue to think iPod first when they need a new MP3 player--but the X-Fi ...

Although saddled with a clunky name, Creative's ZEN X-Fi with Wireless LAN offers plenty of features including wireless capabilities at a great price. Sure, I was occasionally frustrated with the unpolished user interface and the overwhelming number ...

Streams and downloads music wirelessly. FM Radio and voice recorder. Quality earphones are included

User interface needs work. Most videos need to be converted with the included software. Loaded with buttons

Armed with wireless streaming features, but hindered by an irksome user interface, the affordable ZEN X-Fi is a solid player, but lacks the graceful navigation of devices from Apple or Samsung.

Not a ton's changed with Creative's ZEN X-Fi -- which we all well know at this point -- so for right now we're just paying closer attention to its innards all broken out like a science fair project. Careful, the teardown link below contains graphic ...

Experience your MP3 music as the artist originally intended with Creative ZEN X-Fi - the first MP3 player to restore the quality of compressed music with award-winning X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity...

Very good sound quality ; included ear buds are excellent ; attractive interface

Buttons are small and are not backlit ; lacks wireless sync and web browsing