Few Questions From A New

what's up? new creative user, just jumped on board in april with a Muvo Micro N200 GB and bought my little sis a 256 Muvo TX FM. I just have a few questions for the experienced users.
. What's the point of the Zen Micro? Spend 80 bucks on a 5 GB player when you can buy a 20GB player for around 200 (Zen Xtra), what sense does it make?
2. Why doesn't the zen touch come in 60GB capacity like the XTRA?
3. Why is the Touch soo much more expensi've than the Xtra?
4. Why are people still buying ipods when creative is >>> the ipod in almost every way? Show me an ipod with 20 gigs that can hold 0,000 songs, FM radio, voice recorder, and with a 24 hour battery life.
5. why is Cnet.com sooo biased towards the ipod?
6. WHERE is the zen sleek available? I checked amazon.com - not there.
7. what's the difference between the muvo micro n200 and the zen nano plus that I've seen in walmart? features are the same.
8. Why doesn't creative include some REAL headphones with their mp3 players instead of those pieces of feces that they come with now? After spending 300 for a 40 gig zen touch, I deserve some decent headphones!
dang, didn't realize I had soo many questions.

Okay, let me give this a try:
. Simple - the Micro is smaller. For many folks, convenience and portability are more important than capacity. Try fitting an Xtra in your front pocket.
2. Again, it's a size issue. The Touch uses a single-platter .8 inch dri've. In any player the bulk of the space is taken up by the dri've and the battery. bigger dri've=bigger player. The Touch was designed to compete with the itty-bitty Ipod.
3. The Touch is a newer model that incorporates the whole "touch" interface. Newer things are almost always more expensi've.
8. No company provides decent headphones with their player. Have you ever heard Apple's headphones? Part of this is cost, and part of it is that for many people, especially audiophiles, headphone choice is very personal. It is akin to why most bikes don't come with pedals.
There you go Bitch!Message Edited by cameron on 08-02-2005 07:35 AM

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    1. I notice that if I am browsing a second page on my browser for about a minute and then navigate back to my first page... it's "blanked out" and am forced to refresh. Is this normal? Any way around this? Not particularly useful when on Meebo or when I'm trying to compare movie time on two different movie theatres.
    This is normal - in my experience anyway but not with all websites. It doesn't do the same when I have one page open on these discussions, navigate to another page and then back, the discussions page I had opened is not refreshed.
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    Not supported from a website or from a received messages. You must do as provided with your last sentence - at the present time anyway.
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    If you get this warning you shouldn't ignore it. Even though the connection type might be the same, if the device is not compatible with the iPhone it can cause problems or potential damage. There are auto chargers that specifically indicated - made for or compatible with the iPhone. I purchased a car charger that is compatible with my iPhone and with my iPod with video.
    You can alway check with the manufacturer of the device to determine if the device is also compatible with the iPhone regardless the warning but this should be in writing via their website or provided via email.
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    You can view PDF, Word and Excel documents attached to a received email from within the received message but you can't save the attachments outside of the message.

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