Creative Zen Micro 5Gb

/ electronics

by Steven
 
Purchase Price: $204.36
Purchase Place: Creative.com
Rating: 5.0
Pros: Excellent mp3 player. Came with free extra battery.
Cons: Nothing really major.
 
I know it’s a little late to review the Creative Zen Micro, especially since it was discontinued. It was competition to Apple’s Ipod Mini, which is also discontinued. The MicroPhoto is supposedly glitchy with a bad battery life and is shameful to the Creative name. I’m going to review the Creative Zen Micro 5Gb mp3 player anyways. 

I had this thing for nearly two years and I’ve never had any major problems with it. I do recall that the start up screen froze on me a couple times. I just took the battery out and put it back in to solve the problem. This is an excellent mp3 player and there are many professional reviews on the net that can tell you why, but I’m going to describe the minor annoyances that many other reviewers did not talk about. 

Creative MediaSource, the Creative “iTunes” is sometimes buggy and it’s a lot slower than iTunes. It gets the job done and I don’t have to upload music to “PC Library” every time I want to import a song. The first screen takes about 10 seconds to load; another minor annoyance. Many complained that the touchpad is too sensitive but that did not take long to get use too. 

I like how it is possible to turn on the light for the iPod just by holding the middle button. To change the light in a Zen Micro, you have to go to system, scroll down to backlight, click enter, and then scroll up to 5 seconds. By now, I could do it without looking as it has become second nature, but it would’ve been nice to turn on the backlight in an easier fashion. 

After two years, my battery life is about six hours. I have been using it every day because I commute to school. I still have that extra replaceable battery that came with this player. Creative has some excellent mp3 players. My next mp3 player is definitely the Creative Zen Vision: M.