very nice. few days after its release and you guys already opened it up. grahm this is your own zen x-fi right? do you use it as your main player? or what do you use mainly?

omg you guys are my hero!!! first day review is broken into already!!! :) my question is, can someone post a guide to replacing the zen v m hdd to compact flash?

@dragnandy
Yes it is mine. I have been using it as my main player for the last week or so. But im not sure i have a "main player" although the Sansa Clip and the Zune are frequent in my rotation. However, i could easily use the X-Fi as my main player since it does play nicely with my Shure SE530s.

Does it have an x-fi chip or is it just software.

^^^Yeah, that's what we really want to know, is there a chip in there?^^^

I feel so... dirty, somehow.

It doesnt have an X-fi chip in it, for it would drain the battery way too fast; instead, the X-Fi features are just software emulating the effects of an X-fi chip

not knowing what an x-fi chip looks like but looking at the PCB of this player and the PCB from the zen there seems to be at least 2 additional chips (the square ones). One is the gold/bronze coloured one. I am going to guess here and suggest that this could be an x-fi chip. I don't think its something to do with the wifi as I read somewhere tonight that the existing zen chip already had this in it, it just wasn't implemented.

if wanna just open it into half u could have given it to me

Does this support Napster like most of the other Creative products?

hey grahm my names jas & i got my zen x-fi about 3 weeks ago & still cant seem to download songs on it, how would i download songs on it wut should i use...?

Testing.

Some have raised the issue of battery replacement. From the above pictures, a ruler, and research at a local electronics outlet, it seems no big problem to get a two-lead Li-ion of proper size to wire in. Cell phone replacement, or "recharger". (Lenmark is big in that area.) Advantage: the replacements I've seen have somewhat greater capacity -

Can anyone advise how tricky it would be to replace the screen, I can quite see from the pics how it connects? And any ideas where I can get a replacement?!

cheers
Si

I broke the screen on my zen x-fi. Could I use the screen from a zen as a replacement? Since the two players are very similar do they use the same screen and connector? I'm figuring that it would be cheaper to get a used zen to harvest the part...

I'm wondering, what opamp does the Zen X-Fi use?

Will the screen of the Zen 8GB fit the Zen X-Fi, they look the same?

Sorry just noticed the post by Joe above, same question.

THANKS DUDE!!!!

my keypad was broken down and i didn't know where to put the red and black cable, now i have fixed it myself and its working again!!!!

(better then using a philips hdd120 :P)

Don't supose you looked to see who made the speaker in the X-FI did you (it wouldn't be creative as they don't produce their own (speaker) drivers)?