
After owning this for three weeks - returned for iPod
6 of 8 people found this review helpful.
I bought a red Zen in May 2005 with the idea of using Yahoo's subscription music service. I used it for about 3 weeks and took it back to Best Buy to exchange it for an iPod Photo 30 G which I love.
I thought there was too much hype around the iPod and tried and considering it relative to the iRiver 5 Gb. There's a reason the iPods are the top-selling devices - the UI, functionality, cool factor just isn't there with the Zen.
It's just not nearly as intuitive as the iPod and the software that comes with it is lousy relative to iTunes. Sound quality is fine and the touch panel works great, but the navigation is not that clear/pleasant to use.
Also - the subscription services are great, **if*** you really only want to listen on your PC. If you want to download stuff to listen "to go" you'll find that the music companies haven't loosened up very much to allow anything on the "to go" version of the subscription services, so it's not really worth it.
Overall this device is fine, but once you've used an iPod, you'll want to junk this thing. Especially now that there's the Nano.
Review ID: 10000000000002673

Thank you for voting. If your vote meets our
guidelines, it will be posted within 24 hours.
You cannot vote on the helpfulness of a review you wrote.
Your request cannot be processed at this time. Please try again later.