Creative announces Zen Mosaic, looks like bad Mondrian
By Ryan Block 
posted Jul 24th 2008 2:11AM
posted Jul 24th 2008 2:11AM
[Thanks, Rube]
Read - Announced details on the player [Via EpiZenter]
Read - First hands-on
posted Jul 24th 2008 2:11AM
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Nothing 'zen' about that design.
They didn't say it would cost 200, but under it. Anyways I think ill stick with my awesome Zen..
Lights out!
You know, I accept that most people would be satisfied with 2-8 GB, maybe 75%, and 24% would be fine with 32 GB. So I'm not knocking these machines.
But dammit, there are those of us who would like a reasonably priced, bare bones music player...no pictures, no video, no wifi, no unreasonably small size necessary...with a gargantuan hard drive. Not even *that* gargantuan for today's hard drive standards, but close to 100 GB.
I had the best mp3 player on the market for someone like me, the DMC Xclef 500. It was clunky and fugly, but I don't give a shit. It had a 60 GB 2.5" Toshiba hard drive in it, and I could open it up at any time and replace the hard drive with a bigger one, provided...certain things. The problem was, as far as I can tell the company no longer exists, and before they stopped existing they removed all support for the Xclef on the internets. So it's a job I'm unsure of how to do, and at any rate it broke after a few years of solid, heavy use. Still...massive hard drive, it had an internal microphone, a line in, FM radio, it was solidly built (how many years could an iPod last after being used 8 hours a day minimum, carried around, dropped, spilt on, etc.?) and cost less than $300.
There could definitely be a better mp3 player out there...but for what I need (and I know I'm not the only person with well over 60 GB of music), it blew everything else out of the water...and considering how inexplicably, mp3 players seem to be getting less and less memory, I fear a golden age has come and gone :(
It's ugly.
A bad Mondrian? Are you serious? Philistines. Firstly, there's no such thing as a 'bad' Mondrian, and secondly, he only used primary colours and black and white in his paintings, pure de Stijl principles. As you were.
whoa .... this is hideous.
Um, WTF?
Man, what happened to Creative. They used to be my go-to Apple alternative.
Yuck.
We've just started selling it in Argos in the UK - I've not seen any myself actually being sold, but it's in the new catalogue. Looks cute if you ask me.
Looks like a japanese cellphone, the AU Infobar 2
i actually think this thing is pretty sweet,i like the material they used. nice and smooth and the internal speaker i wish the ipod or the zune had that..