Creative MP3 bargains

daheff

Just checked the Creative.ie website and they seem to have some good MP3 bargains:

This is EUR 59.99 (plus 4eur delivery if total less than EUR 75) -was EUR 199.99
http://ie.creative.com/p/mp3player/zen-touch-2-with-gps#tag-buy

daytob

I wouldnt pay 30 euro for that tbh.
its 3 years old, running an ancient android (2.1), and no idea of a battery life.

Digital Society

Could have its uses. Wall mount this in the kitchen or bedroom with the bluetooth speaker and it could be a good buy.

Heres a good little setup for a kitchen or whatever. 90 quid with a good bluetooth speaker.

http://ie.creative.com/p/bundled-offers/zen-touch-2-with-gps-music-pack

moodrater

Its like a really bad smartphone with no phone features, bad video playback, and terrible gps don't see the point.

Kolido

I got that Zen touch 2 couple of years ago for around the same price. Its really not worth it tbh.

Touch screen is bad, prone to crashing, and has problems picking up/dropping wifi. If you can overlook that the sound is decent.

You'd be better of getting a cheap smart phone.

Digital Society

On second thoughts 90 quid would go a long way towards a bluetooth speaker and then just use your smartphone which everyone probably has at this stage anyway.

yawhat!

Woudln't pay a tenner for it to be honest.
I would rather buy a 60 euro smart phone and use that.

Its way overpriced! not even worth 20 I'd say. Just because something was 200 and reduced to 60 does not make it a bargain!

daheff

got it yesterday. the only bad thing i have to say about it is that its big (about the size of my phone)

Other than that, i reckon for what I paid, i got a bargain (even if other posters dont).

tomdempsey200

surely it's better sound quality than a phone, it's a creative mp3 player

http://mp4-player-review.toptenreviews.com/creative-zen-touch-2-review.html

"remarkable audio quality"

not sure it's accurate to compare it to a phone

daheff

Ok

so I thought I'd update people on this. The MP3 player had crashed a number of times using it, and now has refused to turn on altogether (even after a long charge). :mad:

I've contacted Creative to seek a refund as its faulty (afaik).

beauf

tomdempsey200 wrote: »

surely it's better sound quality than a phone, it's a creative mp3 player

http://mp4-player-review.toptenreviews.com/creative-zen-touch-2-review.html

"remarkable audio quality"

not sure it's accurate to compare it to a phone

Look past the advertising blurb....

I find a lot of main stream sites give generic glowing reviews, and specialist sites don't. I wonder how independent the mainstream sites are.

http://www.head-fi.org/t/522090/creative-zen-touch-2-to-touch-or-not-to
http://www.itreviews.com/creative-zen-touch-2/

L1011

tomdempsey200 wrote: »

surely it's better sound quality than a phone, it's a creative mp3 player

Sound reproduction is of critical importance for a phone so no, there's absolutely no guarantee that its better

Anyway, as its being used with headphones realistically the only factor that's specific to the player is the DAC in use which is going to be an off the shelf chipset.