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Creative ZEN Stone

I cannot help but smile in wonder if Creative meant its “Rock in color”, with pun intended, or not. Some 2 years after Apple launched its iPod Shuffle, Creative launched its own plug-and-play, drag-and-drop, ultra-compact 1GB mp3 player Creative ZEN Stone today, rivaling the former. Available in 6 colors, the Creative ZEN Stone does look pretty [...]

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Creative to Go On a Suing Spree

It must have felt great getting Apple to hand over $100 million just like that. So nice is the feeling that Creative is already having plans to point their Death Star on the smaller patent infringers. President of Creative, Craig McHugh, said, “There many MP3 player makers in the US market that are currently using the [...]

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Apple Hands Over $100 Million To Creative

Perhaps you still remember the suing and countersuing drama between Apple and Creative just a few months ago. Today, Apple announced that it would be putting $100 Million in Creative’s pockets to settle all patent litigation over the iPod. The settlement now gives Apple the license to use the hierarchical song selection interface that is patented [...]

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Creative Zen V And Zen V Plus

The mystery MP3 players that Creative teased us with several days ago are finally revealed. They are the ZEN V and ZEN V Plus, and I must say they have to be the best-looking Creative MP3 player yet. The button interface has a true “Zen” feel to it, and the different color schemes all look [...]

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Creative Has A New MP3 Player Coming?

It’s that time of the year again for the Creative Warehouse Sale here in Singapore. From June 23-25, our typical bargain-hunting Singaporeans would spend hours queuing up at the entrance just so they could snap up some great deals. And from this picture shown at Creative Singapore’s website, it looks like Creative is giving a go [...]

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Mickey and Winnie the Pooh MP3 Players

Ahh…so cute! It’s not often that we see Winnie the Pooh on gadgets. Available in both Creative Zen Neeon and Creative Zen Nano Plus design, the players are released by Creative Media (Japan), which makes it likely to be available only in Japan. The one following Zen Neeon’s design is named the DAP N series, [...]

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Zen Vision:M, Creative’s Answer to iPod Video

Last week, Creative introduced their new Zen Vision:M portable media player. Unlike the Zen Vision, this model fails to surprise. The two models are very different, instead the new model is similar to iPod Video, where video playback seems more like a bonus than a main feature.

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