Creative's DMP FX100 - low-end mystery player

We're not sure what to make of Creative's DMP FX100 audio player. While the player can be found on some European Creative sites, including those in the U.K. and France, Creative doesn't seem to be going out of their way to promote it. You won't find it in any site navigation, searching yields almost nothing, and the team at GenerationMP3 admit that they stumbled on it by chance (you can still find it via cached Google pages, which indicate that it was on the U.K.
site's navigation at some point in recent history). From the looks of it, the FX100 is a budget flash player, which tops out at 512 MB at a price of €100 ($120). With no FM radio, voice recorder or line in — but with a display, a form-factor of just 1.1" x 2.8" x 0.65" and the ability to take AAA batteries — it looks like a stripped down
MuVo Micro or
Zen Nano, and could be Creative's next attempt to battle the iPod shuffle (and it would certainly be a stronger competitor than the me-too
MuVo Mix).

[Via
GenerationMP3]