It's Official * Creative Zen Touch IS the ipod killa * CONFIRMED

[EtOH]

Yes I was referring to an older model, I have no experience with the Touch model.

Also of note the documentation said 14 hrs for the Zen Xtra, however I never got more than 8.

 

[Chiboy]

Where?? HOW?? PLEASE?!? PM ME.

 

[welst10]

Originally posted by: jonusprime
The thing i'm concerned about and I didnt' see anyone address this is the long term life of the battery and what kind of batteries are used.

in the past the if the Ipod's battery died, that would be it for your Ipod and you'd have to buy a new one.

What kind of batteries does the zen touch use? is there replacements readily available? I checked the Official Ipod site and couldn't find any info as to what kind of battery they use and didn't find any available fore sale on their site. same thing for zne touch.

i'm gonna hold onto my money until I'm confortable that the dang battery ain't gonna break on me, or there is an aftermarket replacement aviable.

Here you go

Zen Touch uses 2000mAh Li-ion battery. Dell Dj uses 1450mAh Li-ion battery. 3rd gen ipod uses 850mAh and 4th gen ipod use 1100mAh (approximate) li-ion battery.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: EtOH
Yes I was referring to an older model, I have no experience with the Touch model.

Also of note the documentation said 14 hrs for the Zen Xtra, however I never got more than 8.

yea i get around 10

 

[mrSHEiK124]

NOBODY MENTIONED THIS! (cam't believe no one did actually) the iPod does AAC! the hell with WMA and MP3, if it doesn't play AAC, it ain't worth it

 

[jonusprime]

Originally posted by: welst10

Originally posted by: jonusprime
The thing i'm concerned about and I didnt' see anyone address this is the long term life of the battery and what kind of batteries are used.

in the past the if the Ipod's battery died, that would be it for your Ipod and you'd have to buy a new one.

What kind of batteries does the zen touch use? is there replacements readily available? I checked the Official Ipod site and couldn't find any info as to what kind of battery they use and didn't find any available fore sale on their site. same thing for zne touch.

i'm gonna hold onto my money until I'm confortable that the dang battery ain't gonna break on me, or there is an aftermarket replacement aviable.

Here you go

Zen Touch uses 2000mAh Li-ion battery. Dell Dj uses 1450mAh Li-ion battery. 3rd gen ipod uses 850mAh and 4th gen ipod use 1100mAh (approximate) li-ion battery.

thanks I now feel more comfortable with the battery situation including ebay, which I had totally forgotten about.

leaning towards the zen touch since its about 40 bucks cheaper than the 20 gig ipod and I can use that to buy a warranty. the edge really is the life of the battery, since sometimes long days last longe than 8 hours.

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: sheik124
NOBODY MENTIONED THIS! (cam't believe no one did actually) the iPod does AAC! the hell with WMA and MP3, if it doesn't play AAC, it ain't worth it

Aac is what you buy from iTunes, yes? Only someone with no ear whatsoever for sound quality (or blinded by Apple's marketing) would pay full price for a CD encoded in a lossy format. But then again only that type would buy an iPod anyway, since they have such low sound quality, so I guess it's a good fit. Really though, I wasn't even sure what .aac was, support for it isn't important to me whatsoever. Other DAPs cover the basics: lossless (flac), standard (mp3), and high sound quality lossy (ogg). Apple doesn't.

 

[imported_KirbsAw]

Originally posted by: Gurck

Originally posted by: sheik124
NOBODY MENTIONED THIS! (cam't believe no one did actually) the iPod does AAC! the hell with WMA and MP3, if it doesn't play AAC, it ain't worth it

Aac is what you buy from iTunes, yes? Only someone with no ear whatsoever for sound quality (or blinded by Apple's marketing) would pay full price for a CD encoded in a lossy format. But then again only that type would buy an iPod anyway, since they have such low sound quality, so I guess it's a good fit. Really though, I wasn't even sure what .aac was, support for it isn't important to me whatsoever. Other DAPs cover the basics: lossless (flac), standard (mp3), and high sound quality lossy (ogg). Apple doesn't.

iPod supports apple lossless, and aac is actually pretty good quality. Never bought from iTunes though, just ripped cds to aac myself.

 

[kitkit201]

My Zen Touch crapped out in two weeks. Harddrive Failure.. I never dropped it at all... RMAed it back to Creative, they tested it and proved it was a harddrive failure... .. haven't heard from them since...