Creative Labs Zen Mozaic EZ300 4 GB MP3 Player (Black)

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4 x 5.9 x 1.4 inches ; 5.3 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002BDTLWW
• Item model number: 70PF244209111
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #970 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 21, 2009

Product Description

Product Description

Make a statement with the stylish and eye-catching Creative Labs Zen Mozaic EZ300 4-GB MP3 Player. This ultra-portable player offers an impressive four gigabytes of storage capacity, more than 32 hours of battery life, and supports multiple music formats, including MP3, WMA, and AUDIBLE 4. It's the perfect accompaniment to your on-the-go lifestyle.

The 1.8-inch full-color LCD lets you view pictures and watch videos. The built-in powerful speaker lets you share music out loud The Zen Mozaic offers 32 hours of continuous audio playback. Use the Zen Mozaic as a personal memo recorder to digitally record lectures or meetings. The Zen Mozaic also works as an alarm clock, calendar, and more. An integrated tuner lets you listen to FM radio with 32 presets.

An intuitive interface lets you quickly access all your media content. View larger.

The bottom of the device has a micro USB port and a headphone jack. View larger.

Stylish and Fun Travel Companion
The Zen Mozaic is a stylish and fun way to bring your photos, videos, and music everywhere you go. Carry your treasured music collection, funny video clips, and family photo slideshows with you. With the touch of a button, share them with your friends. Measuring just 3.1 x 1.6 x 0.5 inches (WxHxD) and weighing 0.1 pound, the Mozaic is easy to carry in a purse or pocket. (This Zen Mozaic includes 4 GB of memory. If you need more, the Zen Mozaic also comes in a 8 GB version.)

Bold, Unique Design and Mosaic Keyboard Stand Out from the Crowd
With its sleek look and sharp profile, the Zen Mozaic makes on-the-go portability look good. It also sports a mosaic keypad--a striking, one-of-a-kind design that instantly stands out from the crowd. For a personalized look, you can customize your Zen Mozaic with your favorite color, or you can accessorize it to create a player uniquely suited to you.

Plug and Play for Easy File Management
Designed to be fast and easy to operate, the Zen Mozaic offers easy plug and play, which means no drivers are needed to manage your media files. To add or remove files, simply drag and drop them from your PC to your Zen Mozaic.

1.8-Inch TFT Display for Sharp, Vivid Images
When you play back your photos and videos, you'll enjoy sharp images and brilliant color. The 1.8-inch TFT display allows for a vivid, engaging experience. You can even program the Zen Mozaic to display your photos while you listen to your favorite music.

Chock Full of Entertainment Options
The Zen Mozaic is packed with dynamic features that give you plenty of entertainment options. The FM radio with 32 preset stations lets you stay up to date with news, traffic reports, and top hits. There's also a built-in speaker that's powerful enough to bring down the house at your next party.

For more mellow gatherings, you can set audio effects to enhance your overall listening experience. Choose from eight EQ presets or customize your own EQ; enhance it all with bass-boost and smart-volume effects.

Provides Entertainment While Keeping You Organized
This player can help keep your day running smoothly. A voice recorder--great for recording personal voice memos--helps you stay up to date, while an alarm clock helps you stay on time. Additionally, a calendar and PIM (personal information management) function make it easy to organize your life. You can also use the Zen Mozaic as an external storage device to keep your important files and documents.

Warranty Information
The Zen Mozaic comes with a one-year parts warranty and 90-days labor limited hardware warranty. It requires Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 2 or higher), XP 64-bit, Microsoft Windows Vista, a USB port, and 170MB free hard-disk space (more for audio content storage).

What's in the Box
Zen Mozaic (pre-loaded with Application software); quick-start leaflet; earphones; and USB cable.

Product Description

Make your own personal statement with the attractive and eye-catching ZEN Mozaic EZ300.The player sports a mosaic keypad - a one-of-a-kind design that makes you stand out from the crowd instantly. Play back your photos in sharp clarity on the 1.8" screen while tuning in to your favorite music hits.Featuring easy plug and play, simply drag and drop your songs into the ZEN Mozaic EZ300 conveniently. You can even share music playback from its powerful built-in speaker!What's more, the player is surprisingly affordable and comes power-packed with dynamic features such as the FM radio, a voice recorder and an alarm clock. Available in black, get a color to match your bold and fun-loving personality and jazz it up.The ZEN Mozaic EZ300 makes entertainment on the go truly palatable. Savor one yourself today.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Design/Manufacturing Defect?, September 1, 2009

By	E. A. Brackbill (Wethersfield, CT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The unit shut itself off automatically while I was at the beach. The unit was in a beach bag. Thought it failed but after I got home it worked. Battery was fully charged so I knew it wasn't that. Few days later, left the unit in the console of my car. When I came out after work and tried to turn it on. It wouldn't. After I got home, it worked. The only common factor, temperature but in neither case was the unit in the sun. The unit was warm to the touch but not hot. On another occasion the same thing happened when I left it in the car. On a whim, I turned on the air conditioning and held the unit near the vent for less than a minute. It worked again! Obviously, there is a very temperature sensitive component.

Returned the first unit for another one thinking there was a manufacturing defect. The second unit does the same thing. Doesn't always work at the beach; doesn't always work in the car. What good is it? Previously had a Zen V Plus. Never had a problem at the beach or in the car.

I really like the unit, its controls and features but they're of no advantage if the unit doesn't function. There must be a design or component problem. It's return time again, and buy the refurb Zen V Plus 4GB available here.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Approach with caution, September 6, 2009

By	R. J. Hoover - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Creative Labs Zen Mozaic EZ300 8 GB MP3 Player (Black) (Electronics)

The units playback quality and physical appearance are both acceptable. Customer service via internet is reasonably good. Downsides are many however:
1) Instructions that come with the unit (both paper and e-file) are some of the worst I have ever seen. Both depressingly brief and extremely obscure.
2) Some skipping when first loaded. Seemed to clear up on subsequent playing.
3) Operating software is "buggy". Freezeups are pretty common and I have to use the reset button with some frequency when managing the files (deleting, etc).
4) The computor managment software (Creative Centrale) is definately not user friendly. Very non-intuitive. Took quite a bit a head scratching to figure it out. See comments above about the instruction manual.
5) For some strange reason the unit does not play through an album in sequential track order -- i.e. 1,2,3,4 etc. This is a real problem for show tunes and classical albums. Creative's recommended "fix" for this problem is to manually modify all track names by added a numerical sequence number in front of the name proper. Very time consuming/aggravating if you have an extensive library.

I'd definately think hard before purchasing another ZEN MP3 player.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent player, September 3, 2009

By	J. R. Croft "Jimc" (Denver) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is the 3rd creative player I have owned. All of them have been excellent. I really like the mosiac the best. The sofware sets up a logical order so I can find stuff like set up the equlizer,turn on speaker ,etc I will say that it did take me while to learn how to navigate the menu options. The speaker is an added bonus. I rarely listen to music mostly audio books. The sound can be addjusted so I can hear the spoken word clearly. I have poor hearing as a result of listening to music to loud when I was younger. Just a word to the younger folks out there. One final thought all of the players Zen nano plus,ZenV plusand the mosiac 300 do freeze up. I just reset the player it always rebulds and goes to where it left off this is annoying nothing more. When I look back to transister radios i listened to when I was a kid this device is a miracle. Jim C PS I would not continus buying creative if I didnot like the product. I did buy a sansa once e140 did not like it