Creative Technology Zen Vision: M hard drive-based portable media player is a crowd pleasure, so were surprised when the company announced that its upgrade, the new Zen would be based flash. Creative, in fact, has given up the hard drive players, and the new Zen in the first shot of a flash-based music and video player. In general wow factor or ease of use, not the iPod touch, but it has a screen bigger than the iPod nano and more features, including an FM radio and voice recorder.



The Zen 4GB and 8GB flavors match or beat Apple's prices and the capacities of 16GB model costs only $ 250 - $ 150 less than the same capacity, the iPod touch. (SanDisk beats all with its new $ 200 16GB Sansa View.) The ZEN also has a slot for SD memory card to expand the capacity of the player, none of the iPods.