 - Product Type -- 3-in-1 Skin Pack
- Color -- Red/Blue/Black
- Requirements -- Works with ZEN
- Retail Box Contents
- -- Black, Red and Blue Silicone Skin
List Price: $20.76
Lowest Price: $14.29 
Product Description: Colorful Red - Blue - Black Protection with ZEN style / Includes a handy clip at the back so you can clip your ZEN Stone to your belt or your bag Amazon.com Product Description: Protect your Creative ZEN media player from bumps, scratches and slips. These form-fitting skins fit tightly around your ZEN, keeping the stylish design of your player visible. Plus, you still have full access to all the controls. Mix it Up
When it comes to choice, the only difficult decision you need to make is which color displays your style? Will you clip black on your jacket, clip blue on your jeans, or clip red onto your bag? What’s in the Box
Black, Red and Blue Silicone Skin, 3 Belt Clips Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-04-29
nice
These skins look nice, and seem fairly durable so far. One thing I have noticed is the clip on the back seems to come out a bit too easily. The only real complaint I have about them is the price and quantity. They are around $20 for 3 of these things. I don't need 3 of them and I don't care about having 3 colors. I think one skin should have been included with the player cause you need something to protect it. Next I have to buy a screen protector, case otherwise the screen will get ruined. It just seems to me like the skin and screen protector are essential if you plan on taking this player with you places, which is kind of the point of these players. The skins are cool, but I feel kind of ripped off. Rating: 
Date: 2008-04-26
As Advertised
I received the product when expected and it was what I expected. If you want a cover to protect your Zen that is reasonably priced, then I would recommend this product. Rating:
Date: 2008-04-25
Hard to get but worth it.
I had notification requests in at four different places for this hard
to get item. Each time I tried to order the skin pack it was out of stock.
When I was ready to give up, Amazon came through for me. The skins are
very good quality and they have the metal belt clip instead of plastic.
Thanks Amazon.
Rating: 
Date: 2008-04-12
it's ok
comes in three colors, the black one gathers dust better than my window shades...the blue and red one don't look too bad, you can't really expect much from the case.. and it does take a couple days before you get used to the buttons, the feel just isn't as strong as it once was... will NOT protect the screen, so make sure you get the screen protector.. man CREATIVE really knows how to milk their customers.. Rating: 
Date: 2008-04-10
Buyer Beware - NO SCREEN PROTECTION!!
I bought this three-pack on the assumption - mistaken, as it turns out - that the "protects from bumps, scratches and slips" mentioned in the description means there is a clear protective film to shield the display screen. Wrong.
What these things are: soft, rubbery silicon cases that have an OPEN SQUARE HOLE OVER THE PLAYER'S SCREEN. There is no, repeat NO, protection for the screen itself, unless you're going to count on wind resistance or atmospheric friction. Maybe if you hang it out the window of a re-entering NASA shuttle the debris will burn up before it gets to the screen. Not a scenario most of us are likely to encounter.
Let me repeat once more for clarity: You have got nothing - zero, zilch, rien, soon, rei, nada - between your player's screen and the big, bad world but...air.
Which means that if you'd like to supply the Zen player's screen with the basic protection from scratches that, aHEM! Creative Labs should have provided as an integral part of the player before marketing the damned thing, you will have to skip this product and look for something specifically labeled as a screen protector.
The controls can be operated through the rubber, but unfortunately the manufacterers didn't seem to think it was necessary to put any kind of identifiable labeling or even tactile indicators as to where, specifically, the controls are located. Which means you're left to: guessing and practice. In my experience, trying to hit the Pause button will instead get you the "My Shortcut" button and an exciting jump to a completely different selection, maybe 50% of the time.
Another negative: As others here have remarked, the particular type of silicone material these are made of makes these things veritable magnets for every speck of grit and dust and sand and miscellaneous mineral matter that crosses your player's path. Wiping it off is mostly an exercise in futility, because unless you're working in an ISO Class 1 cleanroom it'll have a fresh coat within seconds.
The only positive aspects of these are that they make the player less slippery to grab, therefore a little harder to fumble; the parts covered with rubber have some protection from minor gouges and scratches; and the thickness of the material keeps the screen from touching the table, etc. when you lay it on a perfectly flat surface. Small consolations, and again, features that should have been built in in the first place.
The Zen player is a well-designed unit in terms of performance and controls - but the glaring lack of the basic protective elements like this that owners are having to buy, nickel-and-dime fashion, are sufficient to make a customer question whether Creative is worthy of a dime of future business.
Call me disgusted. |
