Creative ZEN Stone - Digital player - flash 2 GB - WMA, MP3, protected WMA (DRM 9) - black | 
| Brand: Creative
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 62125
Color: Black
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 4 x 2 x 4.5
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 70PF213100111
Model: Stone
UPC: 054651142497
EAN: 0054651142497
ASIN: B000XA7KYG
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| Features:
| • | Zen Stone Plus 2GB Black |
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Product Description
Incredibly tiny, with incredible sound - that's the ZEN Stone. Available in a choice of six glossy colors, its looks match its performance, bringing you room for hundreds of songs and running for up to 10 hours on its rechargeable battery. You can navigate through your folders with the Skip feature and add some surprises to your listening with Shuffle playback. Friendly, simple and pocket-size, the ZEN Stone MP3 player is simply incredible!
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| Customer Reviews:
 Simple, And Great ! May 15, 2008
Christopher Amodeo (Long Island, N.Y., U.S.A.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This review is for the Creative Labs - Zen Stone 2 GB MP3 player in black. No F.M. receiver, no external speaker, no belt clip, arm band or anything else - just a USB cable and headphones. Item pictured is not the correct photo. The photo is for the stepped up version with the LED display screen that shows the track number and time, etc.... This MP3 player is the simple model with no display screen, but it is great anyway ! I received it on May 14th, 2008. I paid $38.71 for it. I charged the battery for 2.5 hours, hooked it up to my Toshiba laptop computer and downloaded a bunch of songs and tried it out. It works perfectly. No software is required to download songs from the computer, to the MP3 player. It's a flash-type player. I use Windows Vista and I was able to very easily transfer songs from my music folder to the MP3 player. The player is very easy to use also. The power button has to be held down for 2 to 3 seconds for the unit to turn on. This feature will prevent the unit from being accidentally turned on if something bumps into it, or if something leans up against it by mistake. Buttons for volume and song forward and song backward, are large enough to press without pressing 2 buttons at the same time. Battery life is only 10 hours on this particular model. I have no problems with that, but I've read other reviews for other versions of this player with the 10-hour battery and a lot of people weren't happy with that. For me, it is fine. Zen Stone has a 2 GB model with a 20-hour battery. Buy that one if 10 hours is not enough battery life. The headphones that come with it are okay. I give the phones an 8 out of 10 rating. They sound great, but I like over-the-head headphones better. They don't fall off your head. These phones are the kind that you have to stick in your ear and on occasion they will fall out if you accidentally hit the wire with your arm, etc... I have my old SONY headphones that I use with this MP3 player and I am happy with them. They are the over-the-head type. I wish that Zen Stone included that type of headphone with this player, but unfortunetly, they do not. You can order accessories for this unit from the Creative Labs website such as armbands, keychains, waist clips, etc... This player comes in 6 different colors. The sound is great for this player. I rate the sound a 10 out of 10 rating. The range of volume is more than acceptable. I would have given this product 5 out of 5 stars. I gave it 4 because of the headphone issue that I mentioned above. This is the only issue that I have with this MP3 player. Putting that issue aside, this player is more than worth it to purchase. You will be very happy with it. I'm glad I chose it.
 DON'T BUY CREATIVE! October 31, 2008
Holly
The first mp3 player I bought was by Sony and it has worked pretty well, but since I didn't care for the design or the menu, I thought I'd buy a different brand this time around. The Stone really appealed because of its price, looks, and features. So I spent a lot of time reading reviews and despite the number of people that said theirs randomly stopped working, I still ending up ordering a Stone because of the price.
WHAT A MISTAKE! I started using the Stone right away and everything was going well. I laughed at myself for worrying. THE VERY NEXT DAY, my FULLY CHARGED Stone WOULD NOT TURN ON! I couldn't use the recovery tool that I downloaded from Creative either because when I connected the Stone, it wouldn't show up on the computer. MY STONE WAS DEAD WITHIN TWO DAYS OF USE!
So, there goes fifty bucks. (I bought the 2GB plus with speaker.)
Other reasons not to buy the Stone:
It is ridiculously hard to turn on and off and you have to press for way too long. The middle button isn't big enough or something. Whenever I try to turn it off, I end up turning up the volume super loud instead.
When you reach the end of a list, it doesn't go back up to the first one.
You can't choose individual songs in a folder.
Changing the mode it's playing (in one folder, on repeat, shuffle, etc.) takes way too long. I have to press the middle button, right towards options, down to play mode, and then up and down.
You can't browse music and listen to music at the same time. So let's say I want to go from my Carnival Ride folder to my Some Hearts folder. Well, as soon as I switch over to Some Hearts, Flat On the Floor is cut off because Wasted interrupts it and starts playing.
The clock doesn't work. When you connect the stone to your computer, it asks if you want to sync the time to your computer time and I said yes. Like an hour later, I checked the clock on the Stone and it reset. O_o Before my Stone died, I had synced it twice and both times this happened.
I think I've made my point. THE STONE IS A BAD BUY! So don't buy it.
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