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A followup to what I posted last week. There are more musings about the new Zen Micro update. It is speculated it may not be so micro. Creative should really get serious and update their Zen line- it competed with the original iPod. It is looking like the fall electronics season for the holidays may have some new models from Creative.

"It didn’t take much hunting on the Creative website to find what looks to be a new Zen player described, with a 20GB hard drive, a 1.65″ LCD screen, 11 hour battery life, all of the Micro’s other features (touchpad controls, FM radio, voice recorder, FM recorder, USB2, sync with Outlook contacts, calendars, and taskst), and packaged with earphones, USB2 cable, a power adapter (even though it charges over USB2, I’d think…), both a belt-clip and desktop stand, and carrying pouch. There’s no mention (as yet) of the battery being removable. And note that the relative sizing in my picture is based on a (50-50) assumption that they’d keep the touch control pad the same dimensions, just enlarge everything else."

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