interesting:D
wondering how it looks. if it's a looker like the zen, without the bugs, with video-out I'm going for it!

ZEN SHARE !!!!!


AHH !

SOMETHING !

It's beeen a long time since some news !

OKay..
If they are focusing on the word Share, which is a bit weird then hopefully some flexibility...

Hope it has Net browsing !


Its just 1 month from March and here the bad news buggs me again!

Not a SINGLE MORE DETAIL MICHAEL ABOUT THIS NEW PLAYER ?

Anyother player details ?



[ edited Feb 19 (2008) 05:09PM ]

my birthday is in june. Damn it! now I have to decide between an xbox, new guitar, or this! great news nonetheless
[ edited Feb 19 (2008) 05:32PM ]

Any word on capacity? HDD, Flash?

Michael, do you think it would have web browsing? Or does the fact that it is titled "...share" make you think that it would have purely the ability to "share" songs with other people?

I know I know, just speculation and it doesn't mean a thing, but I can't help but wonder...

Well at least they are doing something
Anything on capacity, flash/hdd, features, screen size?
Not really much of a leak, since we all knew a wi-fi player was coming
[ edited Feb 19 (2008) 05:40PM ]

...man i love this site...
...zen share...
...oooh! oooh!...
...i have to go prepare cher jokes for when it comes out!...

Hopefully it has a web browser and the ZVM's codec support/resolution. RDS is also something I'd like to see, but it isn't really huge.

And if it does have a touchscreen, I hope they have an SDK. Or better yet, make it Linux based.

hmmz let us hope it will be a sweet new player..
I just have bought a new zune 80, used it 2 days now.. and I must say: I'm NOT happy with it.. the thing is SO limited.. and the software is bugging teh heck out of me! bleah!
only the GUI is cool and artists beginning with "THE" are finally in the right place in the library..

I better start mowing lawns and washing cars. I bet the price will be up around $400.

if it's just sharing, that'll be disappointing at least.

I would suspect it also allows wireless synching which I think is a great feature.

Don't get your hopes up. More then likely a zune'ish like player. What would be cool is a service like the Sandisk Sansa Connect.

sigh... more wait... hopefully they will deliver...

"Don't get your hopes up. More then likely a zune'ish like player. What would be cool is a service like the Sandisk Sansa Connect."

You mean a player that started off at $250 and a year later is on sale for under $100 everywhere? I suspect the demand was pretty low. Don;t get me wrong, I thought it was a cool player and got one for my nephew before he went into the army. I thought the wireless downloads and subscription service would be good since I didn't think he'd have access to a PC to manage his music. Turns out he bought a laptop and has regular internet access on base, so he just uses it as a basic MP3 player.

God I want to know what it does cause i've really got to hold myself back from jumping for the 32gig zen

ZOMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YAYNESS!

I hope this new player is something good...I also hope that they continue to make more good players during the next few months...I would also love to see a touch-screen player by them =O
[ edited Feb 19 (2008) 11:47PM ]

if true, this will be my 10th DAP . i had written off Creative,but now it seems that they are back.

I sure hope Creative are coming out with something good unlike their last set of junk for the tight of wallet

Will this be a M or W form factor?
Will there be lower cost hard drive options?
What kind of features will there be?

Just as the Archos wifi hard drive products are getting affordable, Creative will churn out a bone... they better do this before the 80gb Archos Wifi gets below $150 otherwise, I may just pull the trigger on that..

My ZVM still working 14 months out..
I'm wondering if I should splurge on buying a remote control... Hmmm...

Hey guys,
as far as I know Creative won't be present at this years CEBIT as there is nothing new to show...

http://www.tweakpc.de/news/13371/creative-nicht-auf-der-cebit-nvidias-geforce-9800-gx2-wird-nicht-gezeigt/

cheer

tias

damb that sux

Share?? What a useless feature! How many people actually share their music especially via wi-fi? Now, if it is for web browsing that would be a different matter. If so, please make the browser easy and fast otherwise don't bother.
Please don't be a flash player...please!

Wireless sharing seems especially useless given Creative's market share.

no succesor for the zvm it seems...this is going to suck

I wasn't really excited to begin with and now I'm neither more or less excited, more like indifferent. I'm with HHS, why could Creative think sharing would work when it hasn't worked for a behemoth like Microsoft?

Besides, almost no one will buy it anyway, so sharing will be even more useless.

Hopefully this thing will have a nice screen and be of a smaller size (not that the ZVM is large, but it's pretty thick compared to everything else). I don't want a huge player like the ZVW, that thing is a monster.

Depending on what it looks like, and if it's atleast 60+ GB...I might be interested.

Otherwise I'm either upgrading my hdd for my zvm or getting a Zune 80.
[ edited Feb 20 (2008) 04:03PM ]

Maybe they call it the Share because it has an internal speaker so you can share your music, and they leave the Wifi completely functional as on the iTouch (I pray they do so, I really liked the iTouch but it's so expensive and I already got a reputation of hating iPods, so buying that would be strange to my friends )

Internal speaker(s) is what Creative seems to like these days... But my theory probably won't become reality.

I've pretty much given up on Creative, given how mediocre their current line-up is, with not a single exceptional player, but I suspect that people still holding out hope will be disappointed with what they come out with, they just seem to be lost as a company. Just the name of this thing is uninspiring, I see it as almost inevitably leading to something that doesn't accomplish what its suggests in terms of capability, or has features that just aren't practically of any use to the majority of consumers, which I guess means it would fit right in the the Zen and the Zen Stone w/speaker.

[ edited Feb 20 (2008) 05:13PM ]

@ Cardsfan: Because the WiFi sharing on the Zune is crippled by DRM and Microsoft is in Universal's pocket? They receive royalties from every Zune sold, despite not doing anything with it.

Although for all we know, it's another Microsoft-Novell deal.

The Wifi sharing on the Zune isn't a big thing because there aren't enough Zunes out there, people don't know or care about a deal with Universal, and the 3 play thing is an issue to people, but it's not why they aren't buying the Zune or using the feature for the most part. This is obvious, but Wifi sharing is only a useful feature if there are people to share with, basically at this point the only player in the US it would be a useful feature on would be an iPod, no other company has a user base large enough. Now, Microsoft has the potential just because of how huge they are, but it's still only a potentially useful feature, the Zune hasn't permeated the market nearly enough. Creative basically has no chance of any sharing feature being useful in the US, the only real point to Wifi is web-browsing and the like (like the Touch), there's internet radio, podcasts and download services, but those have been tried on other players, there just isn't a service outside of iTunes with wide enough use for that to be worthwhile, and wifi syncing is nice, but not really a big benefit.
[ edited Feb 20 (2008) 06:12PM ]

Just want to reinforce the fact that this is a rumor, and for all we know the name Zen Share is not official. I think Creative should be aware of the fact that a sharing system only works if enough people have the player. They can see how unsuccessful Microsoft has been with their sharing system so I imagine if it does do sharing, it won't just rely on Zen to Zen sharing. We'll see.

might just be a zen with speakers lol

I don't really see how Microsoft having a deal with Universal would hamper the sharing. Like HHS mentioned, there just aren't enough of them to make it viable.

Cardsfan: Uh...Draconian, useless, crappy DRM? The last thing one of the Big Four wants is free sharing.

i wonder if it will have wi-fi internet enabled like the ipod touch if it does im sold!

i have a feelign RIAA is goign to be pissed if we start sharing our music with each other... remember that guy that got sued for ripping a CD?

For starters kaze, go to my original post and tell me how I was saying the sharing was a good thing, period. I said it didn't work for Microsoft, why it didn't work is really something I could care less about.

To be honest i was extremely excited when I heard the news but i'm starting to realize that creative wont do this well in all likelyhood. I have the sinking feeling that there going to try to do something like zune to zune sharing and they will fall on there faces...again.

Plaese creative we all love you but give us something to love

sh4dow, sorry but you are wrong. the RIAA was actually charging him with file sharing, and some press people screwed it up.

and yeah, i only have ever seen one person with a ZVM, and only two people with other Creative players in over two years. so the share feature will be totally useless to me, or at least, i will be able to use it maybe once every 8 months, assuming those people all upgrade.

i think we all know what we really want. a TRUE ZVM successor and a true ipod classic competitor. unless the wifi is done well it shouldnt be done at all

Agree with most here, if the wifi is for some kind of sharing and can't be used for anything else, it won't be worth it. If you can use it for internet then I'm interested. What I want is an Ipod Touch like device, doesn't necessarily have to be touchscreen but I would prefer it that way. Nice screen, big enough to watch a movie without thinking of the small screen. The Touch is everything I need except for memory space. If Creative gives me an option with more space I will have to give it a look but it will have to be special to make me give up my Touch

Well, At least we have some news. I have my ZVM still 30 GB. It might be a little while till i replace but I'm waiting to see what Creative has. From this player i want more capacity (Ideally 80 like the Zune offers), a bigger screen, bigger album art. I guess the wireless syncing thing would be cool. I also don't want an interface with a new look because i've been looking at this one for what more then 2 years? If Creative fails to meet my expectation i'll be getting a Zune 80 GB even though it can't play .avi files and can't be used for storage.

the name makes me happy i got the ZEN...from the name as many as said i see a zune-zune sharing thing. the only other zens around i have ever seen is my bros nomad jukebox zen xtra and my zen sleek which i gave to my dad.

yeah i convinced my friend to get a microphoto and then he got a w but then he went back to ipod and got a new nano. ya the only others ive seen where like nano plus and a v. why would creative even think doing s6ething like zune to zune would be smart

@ CardsFan

I agree 100%, couldn't have said it better myself

In my opinion, the only way Creative can get back on its feet in terms of MP3 Players is a touch-screen player...a really innovative one of course

If Creative spoils this step after releasing a bunch of crap players like the Zen Stone with Speakers and the T200, then i pity them !

If Creative's next few players end up being crappy like their recent ones, such as the Zen stone with Speakers, I might actually end up getting a Samsung P2. I'm still wondering where Creative's creativity went...hopefully they won't disappoint us with their next player(s)

you know how there are the ipod burning videos? i want to see a T200 getting sniped

The ZEN stone with speakers is awesome, just not what you wanted. No slating.

so its wifi.....do we get internet

it's probably going to be extremely buggy at first ! like all creative players !

[ edited Feb 24 (2008) 11:00AM ]

SlimDan22:

Anything is possible.

Not to be a downer or anything, but I have a feeling that this player won't be the revolutionary player that Creative needs to get back on its feet and really compete with Apple and Microsoft these days. I noticed many of you guys wishing for internet capability on this upcoming player, but come on guys, this is a feature that's been in the iPod touch since the fall of LAST year and Creative will be a year late even if they actually manage to bring this functionality into the Share. Also, even if the share has a touchscreen, it probably won't be a multitouch screen (which is a huge advantage once you've tried it in web browsing)...Apple may have ripped off of Creative's ideas in the past, but now it seems like Creative can't come up with anything creative (pun intended) in their new players to compete with the more popular manufacturers.

996gt2 is right creative really needs something but what about the zen thats awsome?

this is late. This "Zen Share" is late. This is where Creative begins to fall. Sad really, I had the hope that this device would be confirmed sooner, but Creative took waaaaaaaaaay too long and now virtually every other DAP company has left them in the dust.

Did I mention it is a touch screen player? And no, the Wi-Fi function will not be like the Zune's.

Actually the timing of the ZEN Share is perfect if the its networking capabilities are better than the Zune. If they beat the Zune's sharing and maybe the screen size it will blow the Zune out of the water. Lets just hope they don't screw it up.

Meanwhile though I'll be enjoying my ZEN

It will take a nice player to outdo the Zune 80.

Quite true, as always I'm rooting for Creative but I have little faith that they will impress, despite how much I want them to.

I root for them also but I just don't have a lot of faith left. I think I'm in the same boat as most; we want an awesome player but just don't believe that it will happen. Until then I will just have to make do with Apple

@ kingone

how do you know