Zen X-Fi is Official

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By: Andreas Ødegård on July 10, 2008 8:01 AM

We've known for a while, but now the Zen X-Fi is "officially official". It will as we already know look like the Zen with more buttons and a less plasticy look and have the same SDHC expansion slot and screen size/resolution.

The big thing about the X-Fi is the Wifi capabilities (although the 8GB version is without Wi-Fi). it doesn't have a web browser (not that you'd need one with that resolution) but it does support chat clients like Yahoo and MSN. It has a built in speaker and according to the specs it supports xvid and divx video. If that means real support like the old Vision M had or if it's the same useless 320x240 support the Zen has is unsure, but I'll take a wild guess and say it's the latter. Capacities are 8, 16 and 32GB, battery life is rated at 36 hours for music and 5 hours for video and in Asia at least it ships with EP830 earbuds.

[Product Page | Cnet Asia via Engadget]

Comments

tysonkam on July 10, 2008 9:00 AM

Integrated library with SDHC? My guess is... not likely.

Darcy on July 10, 2008 9:15 AM

The big question (for me, anyway) is can you download podcasts over wifi?

Frodo on July 10, 2008 11:13 AM

well it certainly is better looking than the zen.

Jay on July 10, 2008 11:44 AM

Yes! It can play .avi! battery life is not bad, and i agree with tysonkam, I hope they integrate that.

Chuck on July 10, 2008 1:16 PM

Looks great, nice earbuds and some websites report on pricing already, which looks quite OK in US$ anyway.

Just wondering - does it support podcasts / zencasts anyhow?

tegennwerk on July 10, 2008 4:45 PM

i was waiting for this to come out since my old Vision:M died a month ago. does anyone know when it will be released?

Serio on July 10, 2008 6:08 PM

When will it come to the US?

Zaw on July 10, 2008 7:31 PM

I don't even listen to music much. I like listen to PodCast and audio books.

I want a dedicated button for bookmarking, multiple book marks per book/cast etc. and download podcast over wlan. I listen to stuff on the way to customer house. I careless about web browsing. I always have a laptop and bluetooth DUN for that every where I go.

Feng on July 10, 2008 11:00 PM

can we have it imported... er shipped to US?

Hmm on July 11, 2008 7:05 PM

@Jay:

You do realize the regular Zen can play .avi without transcoding, right?

Claudio on August 4, 2008 1:02 PM

im digging the 9 button keypad -ever since my purchase of the zen vision : M, ive been a loyal creative customer. They have provided outstanding customer support. Glad the design is appealing, the ZVM was soemwhat chunky. no complaining with regard to videos! just drag and drop, no need to convert. Time to load the pornos!

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