Top MP3 Player Under $200: The Creative Zen Micro

The Creative Zen Micro is an excellent mp3 player that is clearly one of the best on the market and offers a sleek design much like the iPod, along with many features the iPod doesn’t and at a much more affordable price

Pros

The advantages of choosing the Zen Micro are enormous. The first advantage is the amount of space you get for the price. You get 6 gigabytes for less than two-hundred dollars. When you look at similar products made by Apple you will see that this is a great price. The second advantage is that the Zen Micro is compatible with all subscription music services. This gives users the choice between legal music services. In addition to the regular free downloads from Kazaa you can also use subscription music services such as Rhapsody, Yahoo or Napster. And for the most part these services run without issue on the Zen Micro. 

The Zen Micro also has a host of features that make it the top mp3 of its kind. The first feature is the voice recorder. This can be used to record a lecture or any other type of meeting. From experience it will not record clearly if it is in your pocket but it is a very useful feature anyways. The Zen Micro also comes with a very good FM tuner, a Palm Pilot type organizer and can act as a portable hard drive for non-music files. 

It is also compatible with many more types of files, and has many other tools that make it much more useful in other aspects of use than simply listening to music. This is what separates the Zen Micro from other players, including the iPod and other mp3 players such as those made by Iriver and Sony. Another feature of the Zen Micro that makes it very attractive to users is the ease of use of the music management software provided.

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