Creative's Zen Wav tossed onto the DAP pile
By Thomas Ricker 
posted May 23rd 2007 8:02AM
posted May 23rd 2007 8:02AM
If DAP choice is your thing then Creative's certainly got the bases covered. Now you can officially add the Zen Wav to the Zen Stone, Vision W, Vision, Vision:M, Neeon 2, Neeon, V Plus, V, MicroPhoto, Nano Plus, and Touch to the list of Creative Zen devices. Oh, and we haven't even mentioned the 6 other MuVo DAPs from their portable audio/video portfolio -- that's 19 now, in case you're counting. The all aluminum, all the time Zen Wav features a 1.5-inch, 65k color TFT LCD, mic with line-in dubbing, FM tuner, and a pair of itty bitty speakers which should support the built-in alarm clock well enough. Otherwise, they'll likely prove them selves to be just loud enough to annoy. And despite the name, it plays back MP3, WMA, and transcoded AVI in addition to WAV files. While the WAV does appear on the Creative Singapore website, it was launched without a press release and just that janky pic you see to the right. We'll take that as a measure of its potential to dominate the MP3 player market. 2GB of flash will cost you about $121 in Singapore-only for now. [Via GererationMP3]
"If DAP choice is your thing then Creative's certainly got the bases covered"
That may be so, but who are they belong to?
ET phone home
I think the Zen Stone looks neat, otherwise I dunno about the rest of this, I prefer small flash players.
I hope the ZVM replacment is a little more impressive than this.
And that's 19 DAPs and PMPs with all different navigational controls. And only 65k color? What happened to Creative?
Do some research dave. You should know better, being a member of DAPreview and all. Do you actually think it makes tons of sense to put a huge color screen when it's only 1.5"? This is the same screen on the Neeon 2 and Zen V Plus. It's not meant to be a high end product. Plus it's only going to be available in Singapore so why invest in incredible screens?.
So explain to me how 65k colors aren't enough for a UI? This player doesn't do movies anyway.
Good point - But after waiting and waiting for Creative to improve on their DAP lines (Like the ZVM), I was expecting more than just another DAP with the same screen resolution, to add to their already long portfolio. Meh!
One of the biggest iPod de-killing features is the ClickWheel. Interface to the DAP is key. Nothing so far is as efficient as the ClickWheel. Beat that, and you beat the iPod.
i completely disagree.
i think the click wheel is very difficult to use.
the only reason it's gotten popular is because the ipod itself has.
personally, i think the iriver clix has the best ui i've seen...
I have no idea why everyone (mostly the author of said post) bashes Creative products every time a new one is posted to this blog. Creative players are great and trump ipods in just about every way in features and audio quality. The only thing ipods have that is superior is interface and aesthetics, but just barely.
lol @ creative, desperate chumps
What is the hold up on incorporating Bluetooth stereo into mp3 players? I heard there is one coming, but I haven't seen it yet. I want to get rid of the dongle I use now so I can have completely wire free workouts and control the player from my headphones.
theres a samsung bluetooth player out already the yp-t9 i think
I like the Zen Wav, to bad im more of a PMP guy tho cuz i have a lot of media. It has a lot of cool new features.
Why are creative chumps?
They sued Apple and won for the Ipod interface.
They have led the way in DAP inovations.
If it wasn't for them the Ipod would have nothing to copy.