Creative Zen Sleek Photo Finally Makes it to the US

Creative

By: Grahm Skee on January 13, 2006 5:35 PM

The Sleek Photo has been out for many months in the rest of the world, but has just arrived for sale in the States. For those of you who don’t know the Zen Sleek Photo is the Zen Sleek with an OLED screed for viewing pictures. The Sleek Photo sells for a mere $10 more than the regular sleek. Right now it is selling for $280 on Creative’s website.

We reviewed the Sleek earlier and it is a pretty good player and to add the OLED and photo support is a nice touch. However, the Sleek Photo comes several months too late. For fifty bucks more buy the Vision:M, it’s worth the extra Grant.

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Comments

Judi on February 8, 2006 8:48 PM

I bought this player last week and it puts the iPod to shame. I owned a 30gb video iPod, but this player is so much better. Creative listens to their customers. I own two other Creative Labs players and this has everything I wanted and more!

Brandon on August 12, 2006 6:11 PM

I got this player a couple weeks ago. It's great! This player is great since it cost me half of my returned Zen Vision M. But the scroll is kind of hard to use sometimes because it skips a little. The one on the Zen Vision M is easier to use.

I also can't view photos and play music at the same time, oh and no Album art support. Too bad . . . because those are really cool. I heard something that Creative might be adding these features? Anyone heard about this?

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