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"On May 3 we introduced a huge new market for MP3 players with the introduction of the ZEN Stone, the tiny, featherweight 1GB MP3 player priced at only $39.99," said Sim Wong Hoo, chairman and CEO of Creative. "Now with the ZEN Stone Plus, we give consumers another great choice. For just $69.99, they can have 2GB of memory with a vibrant color screen for access to all their favorite FM radio stations, plus a built-in microphone for voice recording. There's even a clock, stopwatch, and customizable equalizer settings."
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When it comes to MP3 players, most people have the mantra, "Smaller is better." The Colossal MP3 player throws that idea out the window with a massive form factor and buttons large enough for the biggest hands, modeled (parodied?) after the Toshiba gigabeat. The giant DAP has a built-in speaker, but is otherwise basic, with supports for MP3 and WMA files. The packaging says it supports WMV files too, but you're not going to get very far video-wise with its paltry built-in 256MB of memory and what looks like a monochrome LCD screen. Hey, what do you expect for $20? [Flickr via Gadget Lab]
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Micro hard-drive MP3 players, which use smaller hard drives that allow for a lighter package than other hard-drive MP3 players, have been supplanted by flash-based players that have the same capacity. The Creative Zen MicroPhoto (*est. $170) is still available from some retailers... the company is no longer distributing that player in the United States. Cowon's micro-drive based iAudio 6 has been replaced by the flash-based iAudio 7 (4 GB, *est. $140) .
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MILPITAS, Calif., Jan. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Creative , a worldwide leader in digital entertainment products for PC users, today announced that it will preview a new wireless headphone technology for MP3 players at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show. Creative will preview its Zen Micro MP3 player with wireless headphone technology based upon the Aura LibertyLink(R) LL888 chipset in the South Hall, exhibit #36228 in the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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MILPITAS, Calif., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Creative, a worldwide leader in digital entertainment products, today announced two new micro boom boxes to its award-winning MP3 player family: the ZEN Stone(R) and ZEN Stone Plus with Built-in Speaker. The ZEN Stone with Built-in Speaker will be available this month in a 2GB model priced at US$49.99. The ZEN Stone Plus with Built-in Speaker, which adds a vibrant screen, FM radio, voice recording, clock with stopwatch and customizable equalizer settings, will be available this month in a 2GB model for US$59.99. New ZEN(R) MP3 players are on display this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in the Creative exhibit #30642 in the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Creative, a worldwide leader in digital entertainment products, today announced that it has now shipped a total of 25 million MP3 players. Creative is recognized as number two in global unit shipments in the IDC March 2007 report on worldwide and U.S. flash and HDD-based portable media player shipments.
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