Creative is one of the world's best-known manufacturers of various CE products, including here a wide range of portable media players. Most of these products offer some pretty advanced functions, but, unfortunately, they've never reached the level of popularity enjoyed by Apple's iPods, albeit time is not lost, especially in the case of the device you're about to see as follows, namely the ZEN V Plus.



Much like most other products from the same class available on the market, the ZEN V Plus has also been equipped with a 1.5-inch OLED display, which offers a very bright and vivid set of colors and can be used either for navigating the menus or for viewing video clips and photos. Moreover, the device offers a rather extensive level of autonomy, since the built-in, rechargeable Li-ion battery provides around 15 hours of continuous playtime.



Since the main function of the ZEN V Plus is, after all, to play your favorite music, the device offers a wide range of advanced playback features, starting with the 8 EQ settings (acoustic, classical, disco, jazz, new age, pop, rock and vocal) and ending with the possibility of ripping CDs directly to the player's memory, via the line-in jack.



Additionally, the other playback features are also quite impressive, since we're dealing with a signal-to-noise ratio of up to 92dB, a harmonic distortion output <0.05% and a frequency response range of 20Hz – 20kHz, all of which contribute to the achievement of a high-end music-listening experience.



Storage capacity is quite an important factor in the case of any portable player, and the device from Creative makes no exception. Thus, the ZEN V Plus is available in several versions, providing up to 16 GB of storage capacity, which is quite enough to store around 4,000 songs. And since we're on this subject, it's also quite interesting to note the fact that the player is compatible with MP3, WMA, WAV and Audible files, uncompressed AVI files and even JPEG files, which means that users will actually be able to view their favorite digital photos as well.



The ZEN V Plus player retails for up to 400 US dollars (the 16 GB version), but this sum will also bring you a few other goodies on the side, including here a pair or earphones, a lanyard, a drawstring pouch, an USB cable, a line-in cable, an installation CD and a Quick Start Guide.