Swim training delight

This little gizmo works a treat and makes training sessions much more fun. And if you're a synchro swimmer it is fantastic for choreographing a solo, (duets and teams too) where you can't have poolside music. All I want now is a transmitter and receivers to link 8 together! Then our coach can whisper in our ears instead of broadcasting our errors to the world!

The only reservation is the lack of fast forward and rewind, but even so it is great training aid, making warm up time fly by.

Well Pleased

Having bought several large capacity mp3 players over the years, many wholly unsatisfactory; breaking down far too easily, some quite cumbersome, others having functions quite difficult to understand and get around I decided to change.

I chose this xseven for a few reasons, the cheap £15 price tag for a 2gb capacity - amazing in itself considering the rrp of around £80. BARGAIN!!

Small and light - no thicker than a couple of credit cards and only a few inches long. I thought being so slight would make it terribly fragile but on the contrary, its a sturdy little thing - not that I condone throwing it out of your bedroom window! It'll sit happily in your pocket and you'll only remember its there cos of the awesome sound coming to your ears.

The functions are great, the menu is so so easy to navigate around and having only owned it for 20 mins it was connected to my computer, 500 songs downloaded from my collection and I was revelling in the awesome sound this thing can commit to (admittedly the earphones provided lack quality) but a decent pair for the price of the player will send you on your merry way, happy, contented and singing along in joy that you've bagged a bargain.

I thoroughly recommend this product, I've never been happier with an mp3 player.

Great player and better value than the ipod touch

I'm going to compare this player to the ipod touch which is what I had considered buying until I saw the price tag and compared the two models.

This player is great overall. I initially bought it just as an mp3 player but after seeing how amazing the screen quality was, I've been using it to watch movies during my lunch breaks at work. The quality of the screen beats most mp3 players hands down even if it may be smaller than some that are out there; and this includes the ipod touch as the zen's screen has a better colour display (zen 16.7 million colours vs ipod touch's 64 thousand colours). Keep in mind that though the screen is smaller than an ipod touch, the whole player is smaller and lighter, all the while still providing longer battery life. Additionally the player can handle many different video formats thanks to its video converter software so video formats out there that are made to watch on ipods can be converted and watched the zen instead.

Other advantages over the ipod touch include:
32gb model
expandable memory with sd card
voice recording
on the go deleting
bookmarking of tracks
custom EQ
volume equaliser
volume limiter
FM radio
in line remote control available

The player is indeed a finger smudge magnet and is easily damaged but this is easily solved with zagg's invisishield screen protector which I have used to protect the whole front of my device with (an amazing piece of kit for less than £10)! The sound quality seems slightly better on the 32gb model than the 16gb but that may just be because I had a problematic 16gb model that kept freezing when it was new which I ended up returning. The only downsides to the player I would say are that it doesn't have the capability to browse the internet like the ipod touch and this would have been a nice addition.

Overall it is a fantastic player and despite one minor shortcoming, it is definitely worth purchasing over an ipod!

DO NOT BUY

THIS IS NOT WORTH EVEN 1 POUND.MY WAS WORKING TILL I CHARGED IT THEN I TRIED TO TURN IT ON BUT IT WOULDNT WORK.THE CHARGER CAME BROKEN,LOOKS NOTHING LIKE IPOD IT A WASTE OF MONEY