10-21-2003, 11:23 AM -
you can get many brands of Zen now, the best one ZenXtra 60gb is much cheaper than 40gb iPod, it has at least double battery lifetime compared to ipod, can record mp3s directly and from radio if you buy the remote. it has much better sound quality, it does not get as insane amouth of finger prints as the ipod does, if you are good in your hands you can even upgrade your hard disk. cooler design, I like blue lights with silvery design more than the ugly white color, that btw gets yellow over time. the firmware of most nomads is upgradable to and the Zenxtras have finally big screens. and ofcourse ZENs have some EAX features and such nice audio related things. different from apple they waste more money on developing games and horrible software for it rather than having some decent sound as the Zen.