Product Description

Introducing the newest member to the Zen family. Full featured MP3/WMA player that is designed to fit perfectlyin your pocket, on your backpack, in your armband. Its so slim it easily slips into your tightest jeans pocket, so cool you want to show it off hanging on you backpack, and so small, trendy, and light its perfect for yourarmband.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3898 in Consumer Electronics
• Color: Blue
• Brand: Creative Labs
• Model: 70PF163300012
• Dimensions: 6.50" h x 2.00" w x 5.70" l, .60 pounds

Features

• Product Type - MP3 Player
• Connectivity - USB 2.0
• Memory - 1 GB

Amazon.com Product Description
Ready for remarkably thin and powerful performance from your portable music device? The Creative Zen Nano Plus 1 GB MP3 Player is the ticket. Incredibly thin and lightweight, it's packed with the latest features to meet all your needs. Enjoy amazing, skip-free audio quality when you're listening to your MP3 and WMA music.

The Zen Nano Plus is incredibly thin and can store 500 songs on its 1 GB flash memory.

The built in mic lets you record conversations.

The LCD is built for left or right handed operation.

The Nano Plus is much more than just a music player; it includes an FM tuner, voice/FM recording, and line-in encoding for direct connection and recording from any audio source. Use the Nano Plus to record music directly from your CD player, without a computer.

Of course, if you do have a computer you can transfer audio and data files in seconds with "drag-and-drop" ease--and without software--using the player's USB 2.0 connection. Meanwhile, the Auto Synchronization feature makes it easy to transfer your favorite songs and albums from CDs through the line-in port. Battery life is outstanding, allowing you to listen to music for up to 18 hours on a single AAA battery. Now you can keep the tunes rolling all day long, and do it in style, as the Zen Nano plus comes in ten fun, vibrant colors. The 1 GB model's flash memory can store up to 500 songs (WMA-encoding, 64 kbps).

The FM tuner lets you tune 32 stations. As mentioned, you can also record FM radio so you can catch your favorite tunes or talk shows later on. The built in microphone lets you record voice conversations -- great for those long lectures at school. You can also use the Nano Plus as a portable mini hard drive, allowing you to store data files such as photos and presentations. The unit's LCD is even reversible for left or right handed operation. Last but not least, the Zen Nano sports equalizer presets (Classical, Jazz, Pop, Rock) that make your music sound better.

The Zen Nano Plus uses PlaysForSure technology. Look for the PlaysForSure logo if you're shopping for a portable music or video device and you want to make sure the digital music and video you purchase will play back on it every time. Match the PlaysForSure logo on a large selection of leading devices and online music stores. If you see the logo, you'll know your digital music will play for sure. Choose from a large number of digital music and video stores, including MTV's Urge, Rhapsody, Yahoo!, MSN Music, MusicMatch, MusicNow, Napster, Wal-Mart Music Downloads, and many more.

What's in the Box
Zen Nano Plus, high quality earphones, AAA battery, USB 2.0 cable, line-in cable, quick start booklet, installation CD and neck strap.

Customer Reviews

Great little player!
This is the third Creative Zen that I have purchased over the past few years. I have one for the car, one for workouts at the gym, and one I use during yard work. They have enough memory to store almost 500 songs at 64 kbps, and the quality of playback is plenty good enough for my "getting on old" ears. I can say for sure that I would not have bought a second player of this type and manufacture much less a third if I was not sure they were able to deliver as advertised, convenient, and long lasting. I know that the manufacturer has followed latest trends to upsize their flash memory in their newer model MP3 players, but the 1-2 GB size is about right for the use I put my three to. I hope there will still be some around in the future when and if I look to replace mine. Here are what I see as their best characteristics, not necessarily in any particular order:
- they use triple A batteries for playback of 12-15 hours, so no added expense to buy a charger or finding myself out of reach of an AC charger - just change the battery out "on the fly" and keep the tunes a coming.
- they are small and take up almost no room - carry easily in shirt pocket
- they are quite durable when kept in their soft outer shell which clips to the armband
- they are cost efficient for the sound they deliver, and not costly to replace if they do break - which hasn't yet happened to mine (oldest is now 3 years)
- are less likely to be stolen because thieves target the larger, more versatile, and more popular players manufactured by Apple
- they store more than enough music so that one does not become quickly bored with the playlist
- FM stations come thru with quality sound

Great for the price
I received this MP3 player as a gift two years ago and it still works great! I bought my fiance a different brand for Christmas and it was too confusing to even figure out how to download music so I returned it and bought him the same exact one that I have!

Few complaints for this economic MP3 player
I purchased my Zen Nano over a year ago from an overstock-type site for around 35 dollars. I can't recall exactly but it may have been an open-box return, which might explain the only problem I have had with it (see below). Having tried other zen players, an old Muvo flash-drive player, and after sampling several different ipods, I have found this to be the best option, as well as the cheapest.
The functionality is something unrivaled in most players I've tried. It includes line-in recording so that you don't actually need a computer to load it. An FM tuner, with admittedly limited reception, works in a pinch if I need to walk to the store in the middle of a football game. It has a small microphone that is useful for note-taking, though not much else.
These lesser functions are somewhat basic but do not detract from its main function of music playback, which works excellently. The sound quality is every bit as good as any player I've tried, as long as you are willing to pay out for some more expensive earbuds(sony EX51s are nice but break relatively quickly) than the ones included, which are the same quality as the tinny pieces of junk you would get with an ipod.
The player's operating softare includes playlist organization, mp3 encoding (which I've never used), and even a basic equalizer with presets which helps when I change audio inputs from my over-bassed Koss Sparkplug earbuds to my home stereo. I should note that some have complained that there is no gapless playback on this player, which is true although I'm not even sure gapless playback is possible with Mp3s, as they don't usually contain that sort of information (I could be wrong).
The interface may provide some problems for those who are less familiar with computers like the elderly or perhaps those who simply don't have the dexterity for smallish buttons (for instance: the very very obese) but I found the interface perfectly comprehensible and transparent, including a faux-scroll wheel, an on/off/play/pause button, and two dedicated volume buttons.
The only problem I have found with the player, which may be because I did not buy it new, is that the battery case cover on mine broke fairly soon after I bought it, making it very easy for it to fall off in my pocket. This is not a huge problem, as it comes with a belt-clip plastic case I can put over it, preventing the battery from falling out. The downside is that it increases the size of the player by about a third, but this is minimal in my opinion as the player is already a little smaller than the average disposable cigarette lighter.
For what I paid for this player, I would still be happy with my purchase if it died completely tomorrow. It outlasted the more expensive earbuds I purchased for it, and if you are willing to pay the extra money it costs at Amazon, you can return it for a new one if it is DOA, as plenty of electronics are.