It was barely a month ago that
Creative pelted the market with its
Zen Stone, and now they're rolling out a re-upped and revamped version known as the Zen Stone Plus. While pretty much keeping the form factor the same, Creative has added a blue OLED screen, FM tuner, karaoke mode, and a stopwatch. The capacity has been increased to 2GB, doubling the original Stone's, but the color choices remain the same. Price and release date haven't been mentioned, but you'll know as soon as we do.
Update: For what it's worth,
Impress tells us that the 2GB Stone Plus will hit Japan Saturday for ¥9,800 which translates to a tax-
inclusive price of about $79.
[Via
epiZENter]
posted Jun 21st 2007 12:26AM
HAHAHA.. they took apple's design and made it 'creative'
*vomit
err.
exactly what appledesign are you speaking of? *dunno*
well, as it is something in a solid state with electronic bits inside and buttons on the outside which can play mp3's, it is clearing ripping off apple left and right
@LordFarkward
"well, as it is something in a solid state with electronic bits inside and buttons on the outside which can play mp3's, it is clearing ripping off apple left and right"
Yes, and my solid state PDA was not able to all all those things and more well before the first iPod came out. I fail to see how solid state devices that can play MP3's are unique to Apple.
I'd buy one. That's pretty cool. The only problem I had with the Zen Stone was that it had no screen.
There's still one major problem with it, it only has 9.5 hours of battery. I need longer significantly longer than that. The bare minimum that works for me is 12 hours.
i'll buy one,it's perfect for the gym,going biking or jogging.just read some of the epizenter comments,and their post...it kills da ipod shuffle
why won't creative realese zen vision m 2
There is supposed to be a ZV:M successor being released sometime this year.
cool
Yeah, I'm all about holding out for the Zen Vision M2. I'm dying here creative. DYING!
Price has been rumored at $69.99 (stiff competition for the shuffle)
hope this is a homerun for creative, their players are top-notch!!
it would be nicer if they just upgraded the screen to the likes of the Zen V Plus or at least take their player designs to another level like iRiver has been doing, because i've been looking for a new player to replace my old ZenMicro, which still works :), but just willing to update to a new one... Currently it's between iRiver and Creative :)
YouTube slide show video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0ajbrXtuzI
Oh cool, thank goodness I hold off on getting a Zen Stone. I'll get this sweet thing instead!
Price of the Zen Stone plus is $99 singapore dollars. There are some accessories also. Link:
http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/musicplay/ontheradar/0,39050985,62023327,00.htm
Going along with my earlier presumption,
100 singapore dollars ~~ 65 US dollars
also, I don't know much about a ZV:M2, but I know they just did a revision on the 60GB ZV:M to slim it up a bit (the original's a chunker!)
It's now on the european site, although no mention of price and for the regular stone it was a matching $/€40 (matching in number, not exchange rate of course)
http://ie.europe.creative.com/corporate/pressroom/releases/detail.asp?ref=12762
anyone got STONE in hand
How's it sound quailty?
By paying slightly more you get a screen and some other features such as stopwatch, clock, equalizer, fm radio and even voice recorder from the player. It's quite a good bargain.
Why isn't there more demand for something that you can actually replace the battery on? I just hate buying something that I know I'll have to throw away in 3-4 years. I know there are a few units out there with a serviceable battery, but they are the exception and not the rule.
Creative should use this marketing slogan:
"Get Stoned!"
Does it support AAC?
who cares if it supports AAC (below CD Format with restrictions in codics) it dose support WMA-64Kbps, MPS-128Kbps@22,000Hz, Protected WMA, and WAV-192Kbps@44,000Hz. oh and if you think it is a rip off of ipod shuffle, think again. ipods can't do anything besides, creative has been around long long long time before ipods.
I'm sure it'll rock!
€69.99 in europe so that'll probably translate to $64.99 or $69.99
http://ie.europe.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=213&subcategory=214&product=16696
No need to speculate as to U.S. pricing - it's up on Amazon. It won't ship for 4-6 weeks, but you can 1-click shop your way to Zen Stone Plus ownership for a cool $69.99.
Blue: http://www.amazon.com/Creative-ZEN-Stone-Plus-Blue/dp/B000S5QIFS/ref=sr_1_8/103-7009714-6715844?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1182445791&sr=8-8
Pink: http://www.amazon.com/Creative-ZEN-Stone-Plus-Pink/dp/B000S5QIL2/ref=sr_1_1/103-7009714-6715844?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1182446393&sr=8-1
Etc (red, white, green): http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/103-7009714-6715844?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=creative+zen+stone+plus+2GB&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go+
Sweet zombie Jesus! I only found six mentionings of Apple and iPod. We need a cake.
awesome form factor AND comes with a screen! i'll take two!
it might hav a screen and more memory and all, but it doesnt hav the clip!
the sound system is not bad but improvement is still required