Wouldn’t mind the Creative ZEN X-Fi…

I don’t know, I got myself a Creative ZEN Portable Multimedia Player back I think in October last year. Despite the fact that I had to replace my ZEN twice so far, I really like the ZEN, and it has a nice design to it as well. I don’t like my phone however. It placed rather deep scratches in my ZEN’s screen… =( I is not happy about that… As I don’t quite like iPods, I was taking a look at anythingbutipod.com, which reviews things fairly well, and reading various reviews about different media players. Bayden had talked to me about the Creative ZEN X-Fi a while ago and it sounded pretty awesome to me… As I was reading the review about it, it now doesn’t seem that awesome anymore… Sure, it can access various wireless points to stream music and videos, but the battery doesn’t last that long when doing this… Unlike the original ZEN, it has speakers, X-fi sound enhancements, and the same, handy layout as my ZEN. The player also has a chat network which is not MSN or anything like that, but it uses Creative’s own chat network. The chat function works like texting on a phone, although you have to use the navigation keys in order to get to the number, and press the centre button in order to get to the next letter which can be rather annoying and inconvenient. Unfortunately, there is no dictionary for it yet and it’s not quite useful right now, and not that practical, as not many people have the ZEN X-Fi… A huge advantage that I like about the X-Fi is that the reset button is a lot bigger than the original ZEN’s where the reset button is like microscopic… Disadvantages with the expandable memory with the X-fi are shared with the ZEN. The content on an SD Card cannot access the same media features as the content on the ZEN itself, such as organising playlists, sorting by artists or albums etc. Although video playback is relatively simple. I hope that Creative will upload some firmware that can do that later…

Anyway, that’s enough about the Creative ZEN X-Fi. Here’s a little late information from the ATSB’s preliminary report from the incident onboard Qantas Flight 30. The ATSB has confirmed that the cause of the hole in the aircraft was due to an oxygen bottle. The bottle exploded upwards, creating a hole in the floor and entering the cabin near the second main cabin door. The bottle hit the door handle before falling down into the hole caused by the original explosion.