Customer Reviews
Zen Nano Plus was better 
2008-06-07
I got over a year of hard use out of my Zen Nano Plus before it died. I was completely addicted to it. I have replaced it with a Stone Plus. It's the same basic Creative system, but there are several differences.
+ It's rechargeable (through USB or an extra-cost charger). no more fussing with AAA's.
+ A clock/calendar/stopwatch is included.
- The LCD display has been replaced by a "blue OLED" panel. It's bright and sharp, but it's not on all the time. It's completely useless outdoors. It's relatively small - a square disguised as a circle, for some reason. I liked the Nano Plus's always-on usable-outside rectangular LCD better, it showed more information.
- When the display is off, a button press is required to wake it up before doing anything. Want to pause? It's one button press if the display is on, two presses if it's off. Confusing.
- Menu navigation is a BIG step backward. Maybe they'll improve this with new firmware releases. Other Stone Plus reviewers have noted this. Menus do not wrap around from bottom to top. And with the narrower display, they reorganized the top menu. A press/release of the menu button takes you to one list of choices, and a press/hold takes you into the Options submenu. It's confusing but maybe I'll get used to it.
- The configurable "shortcut" button is a good idea, but the selections are very limited, and most are things I'll never use.
- Buttons are poorly labeled. My player is white and the button labels (stamped on the clear keypad) are almost invisible.
As much as I liked the Nano Plus, I did have a short "wish list". I'm sorry to see that none of them have been provided in the Stone Plus:
1. Display time remaining in a track. (OK, the Stone Plus has a little bar graph under the time display which gives you an idea of where you are in a track. Better than nothing, I guess. But it took me a month to discover this.)
2. A "Folder Once" play mode. This has always seemed like an obvious thing to have. You can shuffle a folder and repeat a folder, but you can't play a single album/folder, in order, one time.
3. The option to auto-delete tracks after they have played.
4. Better ff/review navigation. It takes _forever_ to advance several minutes in a long track.
In summary, this player is not an improvement for Creative. It's usable, but it could be much better.
Interesting speaker 
2008-04-26
I must say I am very happy with this little gadget with speaker. Initially, I don't hold much expectation with the built-in speaker. However, I immediately start to enjoy wearing it with the clip and letting the music spreading around. It brings music to the people nearby and we all enjoy it. It certainly breaks the psychological barrier and isolation usually created by wearing a earphone. The sound quality certainly is not the point when the speaker is used. On the other hand, you can always wear a earphone when you want to be alone. The music coming out of earphone is about as good as my other players.
Pros:
* Transparent file transfer (work as a USB mass storage device, big plus).
* Very light to wear and the clip is definite a plus.
* Speaker is much more useful than I thought.
* Quick charging
* Blue LED display looks nice and pretty visible in room light condition (not under the sun though)
Cons:
* The pearl color one looks a little cheap, but the elastic cover help some.
* The user interface is much inferior comparing to my previous Cowon's G3. For example,
-the menu will not circularly loop around. When you reach one end, you have to go back all the way to reach the 1st item.
- Files are not browsable. You can only select the folders that hold music files.
- No bookmark, no adjustable scanning speed, minimized info display.
- Could be more innovative with its speaker (adding MP3 alarm function will be one.)
However, with the surprising fun factor added by the speaker and with such affordable cost I still recommended it. Some reviewer mentioned "very" slow response in the web, but I don't feel it at all.
perfect for podcasts, not much for anything else 
2008-04-22
I bought it to play podcasts on it, and I don't regret the purchase. However I hoped for little more. To tell the truth, i don't know how somebody can listen to the music on it, but that's probably just me, cause ipods don't sound very well for me either.
I like the speaker, and it is pretty loud for podcasts, however it sounds very flat. Not for music for sure.
One of the biggest disadvantages for me, however, is that it takes forever to fast forward a long podcast. Another disadvantage is the poor quality of the voice recordings. On my old iriver I could record my lectures even sitting at the back of the class room. To use this player as the voice recorder i have to seat in one of the front rows for a pretty descent and understandable voice quality.
zen stone plus 2gb built in speaker 2008-04-21
small an better than a ipod shuffle!! with the screen, with the soundspeaker, and a lot of other things like radio,2gb memory,watch,date,microphone, stopwatch and etc.... the life of the battery it's very long around 16 hours,but if you earn with the soundspeaker on the will take less life.
buy it.it's not thin like the zen stone plus
