Zune or Ipod? - Comments Page 2

For my needs, my Treo650 and RealPlayer does just fine. It accepts SD cards up to 4GB in size so I have more space for music and I don't listen to music much unless I'm in my car where I listen mostly to CDs anyway. I have no need for an iPod, or a Zune, or a Creative. I prefer to carry just one device and Treo650 does everything!:)

u can have your ipod i thinks its crap its to slow for one if u want a good mp3 player buy an iriver its the way to go it takes forever to respond when you have it full of songs i had 5000 songs on it and it was really slow so i got rid of it and bought a iriver

Creative Zen Vision M Blows them both OUT of the water. So many features that the music listener actually USES! Fully customizable from menu items to desktops to types of video files that will play on it, I don't know why this player gets overlooked so much. 30GB can be found around $200 right now, 60GB $240... It doesn't try to be more than it needs to be, but is almost everything you'd need.

I passed on these and other high performance players for simple practicality. I bought an Emprex MP3 player at Fry's Electronics for $14.95 (now down to $9.95). It uses SD cards. I bought a 1 GB for $15. The player is not much bigger than a pack of Dentyne gum and uses a single AAA battery. It only shows track # but who cares, right? For less than 40 bucks, I have not bad of a player that will hold hours of music. Save your $$$$$!

I prefer ot have the large storage space of a hardrive. I borrowed a 60G Ipod for a month and a Zune for a few days. I preferred the iPod. I haven't tried the Creative yet, and I haven't committed with my money yet either. I'm still using a little shuffle for day to day use.
Phyl, you should know that Creative is not an american company, It was founded and still headquartered in Singapore, I bet that their CS is in asia too.

I have a Zune. It is a really cool device but it has issues. Microsoft has already replaced my original Zune for defects. The Zune is great if it is working. One problem I continue to have is that when you turn the Zune off and lock it, it continues to drain the battery. This is very aggrevating since I run every morning and most of the time it is dead. The other factor is that once it goes dead like this it has trouble charging. It always says "Connect a Zune Device" although it is connected. Frustrating at best!

Definitely going to go with everyone who said ditch those two losers and buy a Creative Zen. Not only is the Creative Zen a better product, but it's still possible to buy their mp3players that DON'T play videos. Not all of us want videos, thank you. Some of us just want to take our music around. It's only possible to retail buy a ZenTouch, which is a mp3/picture device, but mine is reliable as the Rock of Gibralter.

Also as sturdy as, too. You could drop this sucker and not have to worry at all. You can't buy music from Creative, but they don't try and pull all that bull with AAC and DRM. Die, Apple.

I wonder how you can even suggest that the zune is innovative?! it isn't selling because it's obviously another worthless microsoft product, not to mention it wouldn't exist if the brilliant ipod had not graced us with it's presence years beforehand.

EDITOR'S NOTE: So you're saying that any product that is not first to the market cannot possibly be innovative? Consider this... the Japanese didn't invent cars or televisions.

the zune is great. it does everything i want it to do. i've never had a problem with it. actually i don't think you could go wrong with either an ipod, zune or a creative. it's just a matter of taste.

The Ipod is junk.

I bought one, followed the instructions(such as they are) and was never able to get any use out of the POS.

Nothing!

I returned it, got another, thinking it may have been defective.

More nothing.

This is a complete waste of time and money, avoid any contact with this item or any other Apple product, unless you just have to waste your time and money.