Good purchase, nice features for the $$$

Bought this as a gift for my ten year old daughter. She loves it. It has a lot of nice features that the IPODs in the same price range do not have. 2GB of memory seems to be plenty for my daughter. She loves being able to load pictures, and use the radio. Software is very easy to use. My ten year old is organizing playlists, downloading music, and ripping CDs.

No problems mechanically. I highly recommend it.

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A great gift item

I purchased this for my girlfriend who did not previously have any portable music device. It was a Christmas present and we both live in the city, so she does lots and lots of walking.

Anyway, she loves that the player is pink, small, and has a decent capacity (she actually says that it's more than enough). The player is a very good player, and comes with a lanyard, sack, and headphones, but I recommend buying different headphones (they're not very comfortable). One feature that my girlfriend loves, is the ability to switch the player to landscape. It seems insignificant, but she loves playing around with the orientation.

The software was a bit of a pain because my computer froze while installing it, then after restarting, the software took an extreme amount of time to install fully. The software is relatively easy to use and is not hard to navigate.

Overall, this product is excellent. The software seems to be mildly buggy, and I have had problems with my Creative Zen Touch (40Gb) in the past (although I was able to fix it with help from Creative e-mail support).

As of now, with the product being about month old, I'd give it an A overall.

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Wow! How did they do it?!

I was shocked at how small this MP3 player was when I openened the box. I feared that it was TOO small to do everything it is touted to do, but I was wrong. In addition, I feared that 2GB was not enough memory for my wife (as compared to my 30GB Zen). I was wrong again. The memory is sufficient for my wife to have all the songs she wants on it together with family photos to look at. Downloading songs was a snap using either the Zen software or using MediaMonkey (I used the latter since I was converting FLAC files to MP3). Even my wife was able to download her own songs without my help. The controls are easy to use and the ZEN feels very sturdy and robust. The battery life has been very good as well. I highly recommend buying a wall plug recharger rather than relying on the USB recharger which can take hours.

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