Creative's 2GB / 4GB ZEN Mozaic DAP now available

Creative got a bit more creative with the ZEN Mosaic's name since we spotted it in Singapore last month, but the freshly rechristened ZEN Mozaic is now available (and in stock, just to be exceptionally clear) in the US of A for your purchasing pleasure. For those seeking a brief refresher, here goes: there's a 1.8-inch display (160 x 128 resolution), up to 36 hours of audio playback / 5 hours of video playback, support for MP3 / WAV / WMA / JPEG / BMP files, a 5-band custom equalizer, calender / contacts / task list and USB 2.0 connectivity. The oddly designed DAP can be procured in both 2GB and 4GB flavors (but only in black, at least for now), with the former going for $59.99 and the latter $79.99.

[Thanks, Oscar]

[grull27 @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:13PM]

I have no problem with the Zen MP3 player but how does the company go on?! I've never seen somebody with one and if I ever mentioned the name to somebody they wouldn't know what I'm talking about.

[who? @ Aug 3rd 2008 11:35PM]

That's exactly what I thought! Where do they make their money exactly, and who decides to spend such a precious resource developing the weird and ugly design before us?

It's a conspiracy. We are all in the Zentrix, and I'm taking the blue pill dammit.

[Cal @ Aug 4th 2008 12:13AM]

I haz one (a Zen Vision: M), so there's at least one sale...

[scott @ Aug 4th 2008 12:31AM]

I loved my Zen Vision:M, it played DivX, had amazing screen quality, and the video out was DVD quality...

But then I got a Macbook, and I enjoyed that more, and the only piece of software that could talk to the ZVM was JUST above useless.

One of the reasons Creative fails is because they don't have the foresight to take on the iPod on it's own platform. They have better specs at a better pricepoint but won't meet me halfway so I can buy one of their products

[coolblue @ Aug 4th 2008 4:11AM]

I used to have an Ipod. I got rid of it for a Zen and I Love it. However Creative do seem intent on preventing themselves from retaking the DAP crown. My Zen has a great option of increasing the memory with an SDHC card. I have a 8GB Zen with a 4GB card. This would be amazing and one massive plus over the ipods if only creative had not crippled it by not allowing the library to expand onto the card( the card is completely seperate memory and is updated by putting the zen into memory card mode!). Also, audio podcasts have to be converted to video podcasts in order to see them in the podcast directory and in the process they get corrupted so that the podcast stops before the end!. After contacting creative they suggested not converting it (well duh) and accessing it via the library instead as they have no intention of fixing the problem! As I said I love my zen and my girlfriends Zen Stone Plus as the sound quality is better than the ipod but I am now looking for another (non apple) DAP to move to but the choice in the UK is a little limited.

[someone @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:14PM]

What a piece of absolute crap.

[phanbouy @ Aug 4th 2008 12:56AM]

wow, is that like the limit as x goes to crap?

[who? @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:15PM]

WOW this thing sux!

[Flashpoint @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:16PM]

The market is flooded with DAP's and DAP Cellular Phones.

My cousin has a Zen Stone and I was underimpressed with it. Apple has stolen the thunder of the DAP market with thousands of different ipods at multiple price points.

The only people who don't buy iPods now either know the ipod doesn't have enough features for them or aren't suckered in to brand mentality.

[dustinlikewhat @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:40PM]

you know, it is possible that people actually do prefer an ipod to the myriad of DAPs out there. you know people who aren't suckered into anti-brand mentality.

[Carl Vitullo @ Aug 3rd 2008 11:04PM]

The only iPod that's any different than any other DAP is the touch. the rest have decent UIs, but that's about it.

[Will @ Aug 3rd 2008 11:33PM]

@Carl Vitullo

Not true. They also play our locked in iTunes store tracks to keep us from switching to another brand. Kinda sucks...

[who? @ Aug 3rd 2008 11:56PM]

Will, you can't let yourself get sucked into their marketing campaign and buy iTunes stuff just because it's there. Use some other service or iTunes Plus so it isn't protected/locked! I love Apple but I don't buy locked music from them just cuz I got an iPod!

BTW, you can just burn songs to a CD that are protected and then rip them so there won't be protection any more. (That still works, right?)

[Carl Vitullo @ Aug 4th 2008 1:49AM]

Who buys music these days anyway? :P

not that i'm implying anything about my personal habits for acquiring pleasing aural stimulation.

[ @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:18PM]

What a piece of sh*t!

[phanbouy @ Aug 4th 2008 12:55AM]

You c*n say th*t ag*in

[yode @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:18PM]

Looks like ass

[Stiv @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:21PM]

I hate my yellow teeth.

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[andres @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:29PM]

i had high blood pressure.

[Lucretius @ Aug 5th 2008 3:30PM]

I hear ya, brother. I mean, my blood pressure is high. Man, if only there were sponsored advertisements that catered to our needs!

Observational humor aside, I kinda miss my old creative nano plus...is there a sponsored link that will bring it back to me?

[who? @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:41PM]

I have a confession to make:

I need to learn at my own pace and enroll in a medical transcription course.

Can anyone help me?

[phanbouy @ Aug 4th 2008 1:57AM]

you guys aren't using adblock yet?

(or saft for safari? or camino?)

[timmy @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:22PM]

What exactly was their idea here?

"Hey Bill, lets make a new Zen!"

"Ok, make sure it looks ugly and hard to operate"

"Already done! Wanna grab a cuppa joe?"

"Sure, ya did good today kid!"

[cj @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:42PM]

I'm confused...
Did you mean Zune..?

[Carl Vitullo @ Aug 3rd 2008 11:05PM]

No, creative had one a while ago called the Zen

[who? @ Aug 3rd 2008 11:20PM]

A while ago? It says ZEN at the top of the page right now, does it not? This is an article on Creative's ZEN Mosaic, right?? Hello? Are you both daft?

[Carl Vitullo @ Aug 3rd 2008 11:28PM]

oh.
so it is

:]

[who? @ Aug 3rd 2008 11:31PM]

Thank God, I thought I lost it for a second there!

[Zendude @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:28PM]

I normally love Zen, but this was what you call a BOMB.

Crashing and burning.

Monkeys in the design dept.

The whole nine yards.

Almost makes me want an iPod... almost.

[Master_Chief08 @ Aug 4th 2008 2:18AM]

Screw the ipod, the new sandisk sansa fuze is literally the bomb, its an 8gb, same screen size as this piece of crap, the best part is u can add more memory via micro sd card, up to 8gb, who cares bout putting video, an mp3 player is basically just music!

[Metkis @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:30PM]

MY EYES!!!

[Knives_Out @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:32PM]

THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING!

[who? @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:33PM]

LOL

[; -) @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:32PM]

I for one welcome our unstylish and unweildy mp3 player to the market that will tear it apart until all that is left is ashes and weird square buttons!!!

[Knives_Out @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:32PM]

this makes me want to vomit.

[ @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:38PM]

In this case, DAP = Disgusting And Phugly

Any guesses as to what ZEN = ?

[SOOPERGOOMAN @ Aug 3rd 2008 11:36PM]

Zux Everybody's Nads

[Almadi @ Aug 3rd 2008 10:49PM]

I might pick up the 4gb one next month, for $20.
I don't know what kind of idiot woud buy this (4gb at $80) when they can get an 8gb Zen X-fi for a bit more.

[Carl Vitullo @ Aug 3rd 2008 11:06PM]

You say oddly designed, I say tacky as balls.

[phytonix @ Aug 3rd 2008 11:18PM]

Still no AAC support == fail.

[who? @ Aug 3rd 2008 11:22PM]

Still not in style = UBER FAIL

[tuningproblem @ Aug 3rd 2008 11:20PM]

I don't think it's that ugly...

[who? @ Aug 3rd 2008 11:28PM]

Then you aren't thinking hard enough.

[SOOPERGOOMAN @ Aug 3rd 2008 11:35PM]

Shoulds named it the Zux for it Sucks,

Hey the 60's called and they want their patches back.


Is that a Zen or a Zune? Who knows, no one has either.

My knockoff video watch has more features than this thing and looks half as gaudy, at least.

[steven @ Aug 3rd 2008 11:42PM]

this would be a good mp3 player to leave with the FM transmitter in my car

[who? @ Aug 3rd 2008 11:51PM]

You know what would be better though?

ANYTHING

[Jon Doe. @ Aug 4th 2008 12:18AM]

Why is it that Apple is the only manufacturer who has a 160GB drive? Well beyond Archos's huge ass PMP.

[who? @ Aug 4th 2008 12:45AM]

Maybe Apple rules? I dunno...

[Jon Doe. @ Aug 4th 2008 1:02AM]

Apple only rules by momentum. Period. 7 years ago yes. They had the best of everything on the market. That was then.
Their GUI is NO better then everyone else's. In point of fact it sucks ass. Their hardware is in no way superior. That leaves hype and iTunes. iTunes is about all they have.