Strengths: Small, light, OLED display

Weaknesses: Scratches easily, menus not intuitive, no accessories

Summary: I've been trying out the Zen Stone Plus 2 GB for a few weeks now, and the product is a mixed bag.On the plus side, the small size and weight are great. You can drop this in a shirt pocket and not notice it. Windows sees it as any other USB mass storage device, so music can just be dragged and dropped to it without any special bloatware like iTunes.Sound quality is generally nice and clean, but I think Creative went a little overboard with the whole "digital" thing. If you play back a song that fades out to the studio background noise, when the Stone moves on to the next track, there will be a jarring silence while the switch occurs. The Stone must not use any kind of anti-aliasing or dithering to blend the silences together during track changes, and the gaps this creates are rather annoying. I've not noticed similar behavior on various iPods or SanDisk players.I also found the Stone user interface to be confusing. Consider this: If you buy the regular Stone (no OLED display), you can only play and pause music, skip from song to song, and enable shuffle play.The Stone Plus, has a display, so it can provide a menu of options to do more. Unfortunately, the different play options, for example, are not exactly intuitive. I shouldn't need to read the manual to figure out how the different shuffle options work, but it ends up being necessary because there are 3 or 4 different playback modes. Navigation across the different menu entries (e.g. going into voice record mode) is not consistent. I think Creative blew it with the OLED display. It should just be used to provide some basic control over playback, enable the FM radio or voice recorder, and adjust the volume or EQ settings. Unfortunately, Creative's user interface tries to do too much and falls on its face. Apple has proved with the Shuffle that simpler is better. That's not to say that Creative shouldn't have bothered with the display on the Stone Plus, but a simpler, more intuitive interface would've made this player better than the Shuffle instead of just comparable.My last gripe is about accessories. Other than the headphones (which are junk) and the little USB type A to type mini AB adapter cable, the Stone Plus comes with nothing else. At a minimum, Creative should've at least supplied a lanyard (like so many USB flash drive manufacturers do) or wrist strap of some kind so that the Stone can be carried when you don't have a shirt pocket handy. Frankly, a carrying case should've been included because the plastic housing of the Stone Plus is easy to scratch. Creative, like Apple, looks at accessories as a way to sell products that have better profit margins. I can't argue with them about that, it's just the business, but when you're a distant third place in the market, a nice product package (consider the Meizu SL and SP players) will earn the respect of customers and garner increased sales.So, as far as small pocket players go, I still prefer some of the smaller SanDisk units like the Sansa Express. It, too, has a bright OLED display and offers many of the same functions as the Stone Plus, but SanDisk's product has fewer rough edges, and a little polish makes quite a bit of difference.

Strengths: Very small size. Affordable price. Great for your workout/jogging. FM radio + MP3 player + Recorder = all in one.

Weaknesses: Menu navigating is a bit too slow. There's no way you could reorganize tracks or create playlist. OK-quality headphones. Too small, light, and fragile means easy to loose or damage.

Summary: With prices going down around $31.00 a piece, this MP3 player is a steal for your audiobooks/FM listening while exercising. I wouldn't recommend for high-quality music listening. With 2 gb which holds at least 3 long audiobooks, this player is your tiny companion of entertainment with a very decent price tag.

Strengths: Size, display, recorder, FM, speaker.

Weaknesses: It's name is not "Nano".

Summary: I liked this so much that I bought another (black) one as a gift. My original review for the pink one is below. I'll add this: FM works great with the headphones plugged in (even if you use the speaker). I also have trouble understanding why anybody will go and buy Ipod nano when this one is the same price with 6x more features.I was first recommended to buy an Ipod nano (as a gift to my grandmother) but I preferred this one to that because:1-Same price, but this has 2x memory.2-This has built-in speaker.3-This one has microphone and recording.4-This has display.5-This one has FM.The only advantage of ipod nano to this one is it is slightly smaller and a bit nicer looking.FM reception is not that good when earplugs are not connected since I guess it uses it as an antenna. The interface is also pretty easy to use. The built-in speaker is suprisingly powerful.

Strengths: This player is compact, sleek, and with a 2GB capacity is more than adequate for my workout usage. The tactical feel of the buttons is good.

Weaknesses: You WILL need accessories!

Summary: This unit is nice, small, simple to operate, and reasonably well-priced. Adding songs to the device is a simple drag-and-drop operation with no software required. My biggest complaint is that the unit comes with NO means of carrying it during a workout. No lanyard, no armband, no clip, no nothing to attach it to anything. a 3-pack of skins with clips (you only need one but they come in a 3-pack) is about $15. An arm band is about $20. And you may want to upgrade from the included ear buds. So, though it is a good value, it seems likely that the costs of the accessories for me may end up equal to or greater than the cost of the unit itself.

Strengths: nice stereo sound, design, user screen

Weaknesses: short battery life, software is not as good as it could be

Summary: This is overall a nice media player! First, the design ? cute cute cute, lightweight and attractive and has nice accessories available. It has great stereo sound, it recognizes mp3?s, WAV files. WMA files ? and also doubles as a flash drive if you need it. The only thing that I?m not so keen about with it is that the battery has a bit of a short life span so I?m having to charge it all the time and the software is not the best designed and not entirely intuitive. But overall this a nice little media player and would purchase it again if given the chance.