Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Creative‘s Zen — which comes with 16GB of built-in storage as well as an SD slot for expansion — may not be a real iPod challenger in the eyes of Apple fanboys and those sold out to the click wheel interface, but for those with vast DivX collections and no real allegiance to another brand name, this new PMP looks to be a winner. In a recent review, the player’s support for a variety of formats, decent design, and impressive amount of flash storage were all hailed as major pluses, but the 2.5-inch display isn’t exactly large enough for (comfortable) extended movie viewing. Overall, Creative’s 16GB Zen managed to garner quite a bit of praise from the folks at Popular Mechanics, but they pretty much mirrored our own sentiments by concluding that “you’d be an absolute idiot to buy the Zen before Apple’s September 5th announcement.”

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