Mike Cane
2006-01-14, 00:31
This is a hot test of the BT KB. This is the kind of situation I wanted it for!
Just came back from J&R, where they *finally* got in the Creative Zen Vision:M MP3/video player.
I got to fondle it.
Wow!
The screen on this thing reallly is just as gorgeous as the handful of reviews have said. It is bright, very saturated, very colorful, and has a wide viewing angle. I played two demo videos on it and was watching them with someone else who was interested in it. We could both watch the screen just fine!
The bad news is that the plastic reallly has a cheap sh*tty feel to it. That's really the only way to describe it. The front is this slick fingerprint-grabbing material. The four buttons feel very fragile! And the alleged white plastic on the back has the feel of that pressed cardboard that used to make up egg cartons in past years!
OTOH, this is allegedly able to play a wider range of video file formats than the iPod, so many vids grabbed from P2P should play on it w/o any conversion. This is the antithesis of the iPod, which wants everything turned into MP4 and h.264 first.
Despite the cheap plastic, that screen and the wider file formats make this a real Lust Object for me.
At J&R, they are only carrying the black one. I think black -- even with the 5G iPod -- tends to suck the light in and lowers the contrast of the screen (as counterintuitive as that may seem, that's my perception). I'd like to see the white CVZ:M.
Al in all, this hot test of the keyboard has gone rather well. Not as many repeating characters as I've had in the past, plus I paired with the 770 straight off the back. The only multiple characters I am getting are spaces after periods, which I will clean up before shipping this out. Plus, I am able to type on this very comfortably with very, very few typos. Almost as good as the Zippy. Poor Roger! He went with the BT Stowaway! Shoulda bought Chinese, Roger!
Just came back from J&R, where they *finally* got in the Creative Zen Vision:M MP3/video player.
I got to fondle it.
Wow!
The screen on this thing reallly is just as gorgeous as the handful of reviews have said. It is bright, very saturated, very colorful, and has a wide viewing angle. I played two demo videos on it and was watching them with someone else who was interested in it. We could both watch the screen just fine!
The bad news is that the plastic reallly has a cheap sh*tty feel to it. That's really the only way to describe it. The front is this slick fingerprint-grabbing material. The four buttons feel very fragile! And the alleged white plastic on the back has the feel of that pressed cardboard that used to make up egg cartons in past years!
OTOH, this is allegedly able to play a wider range of video file formats than the iPod, so many vids grabbed from P2P should play on it w/o any conversion. This is the antithesis of the iPod, which wants everything turned into MP4 and h.264 first.
Despite the cheap plastic, that screen and the wider file formats make this a real Lust Object for me.
At J&R, they are only carrying the black one. I think black -- even with the 5G iPod -- tends to suck the light in and lowers the contrast of the screen (as counterintuitive as that may seem, that's my perception). I'd like to see the white CVZ:M.
Al in all, this hot test of the keyboard has gone rather well. Not as many repeating characters as I've had in the past, plus I paired with the 770 straight off the back. The only multiple characters I am getting are spaces after periods, which I will clean up before shipping this out. Plus, I am able to type on this very comfortably with very, very few typos. Almost as good as the Zippy. Poor Roger! He went with the BT Stowaway! Shoulda bought Chinese, Roger!