Creative’s Zen WAV is slowly making its way into stores, and can already be found on Wal-Mart’s well-designed Web site. The WAV is Creative’s first DAP to include built-in speakers, sure to be useful to a few of you. (Those guys who perform on the subway platforms, for example.) Its $80-for-2GB and $100-for-4GB price is more than reasonable, but that it shares so much in the way of features with the ho-hum Zen V Plus, it might be skippable.
It’s not the only DAP with speakers on the market—the Samsung K5 immediately comes to mind—so you’ll have to think long and hard if you’re to throw your money Creative’s way. I’m all about headphones, so I’m a little weary of letting people know where my questionable music tastes lie.
Zen WAV [Wal-Mart via Anything But iPod]
The only nice feature is the speakers.
This will be made only available for WalMart.Com
Perfect for listening to podcasts. BTW the 4GB Sam K5 sells for twice the price, so how long would you have to think, assuming you wanted built-in spks? FM, audio recording, etc. not so hohum imho. have ya ever owned a Creative? they rock. tossed my ipod for it.
I ordered this and am waiting for it to arrive. For $80 you get a nicely configured player with a whopping 30 hours of battery time, that alone is great. I am not expecting the speakers to be anything great, and will probably rarely use them…..I am getting this because the Zen V plus was a bit small and cutesy and I have been wanting to try a creative player for a while. If all goes well with this I will be very happy…..if not, samsung will be getting a few of my dollars.
I just bought this player. the sound is great the player is very wasy to use light weight and very cool looking!!! I have owned creatives before ie. neon , zen v, microphoto, and this is truely the best!!!!!!