Buck the trend with a Creative Zen mp3 player. The Creative Zen Mozaic offers a unique design, great sound quality, and a sweet, customizable interface. It's packed with features such as an FM radio, a voice recorder, a built-in speaker, and photo and video support. The player is also a good value, and battery life is exceptional.

The Creative Zen Mozaic is an ideal gift for teens. The pink in particular is quite nice for girls. The mp3 player is fairly easy to use and small enough to fit into your pocket. And the built in speaker allows social butterflies to share a song with a friend without sharing headphones.

Some of the other features include:

• Easy to navigate menus;
• Ability to drag and drop music directly into the player's "Music" folder from your computer;
• A bright and vivid screen;
• Up to 32 radio stations; and
• The ability to move the menus around, add, delete, and set a certain item to the hotkey.

The downside to the Zen Mozaic is that it lacks dedicated volume controls and it only works with Windows XP and Vista. Videos must be transcoded with the included software, which some users find isn't quite user friendly.

Overall, the Creative Zen Mozaic offers great bang for your buck. It comes with great sound quality, lots of features, and a cool interface -- all wrapped in a funky design at an ultra low price.

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