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Creative MuVo TX FM Portable Audio Player: Miniaturization in Action!

Category: Multimedia

by Sergey Samarin

[ 11/16/2004 | 11:16 PM ]

We have just taken a closer look at the new MP3 player from Creative Labs. Light and small, stylish looking, supporting high speed USB 2.0 interface and available in three major capacities, this solution can become a nice gift for the upcoming Christmas holidays. Check it out now in our new article!

Table of contents:

• Functionality
  
• Performance Tests
  
• Conclusion
  

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that MP3 players have reached the acme of their evolution. Those diverse models various manufacturers are supplying to market have long had similar parameters and characteristics, reducing the customer’s eternal problem of choice to giving his/her favor to a particular brand.

While this situation is good for the end user, it gives a strong headache to all the manufacturing companies involved as they are trying to invent new ways to make the user prefer their particular brand. An obvious solution is an expansion of the functionality of the produced models.

But how? Should they start to integrate digital cameras into MP3 players as it happened with cell phones or what? I think that Creative with its recently-announced super-compact MuVo TX FM player has overcome this difficulty. How? You’re going to see right now.

Technical Characteristics

* with the new alkaline battery

A MuVo TX FM player from Creative in its retail package

Even reading through this table attentively you will not get any clue about the new conception Creative has implemented in this product – the specified characteristics of the MuVo TX FM seem ordinary enough. So, the table says that the player has small dimensions and a chip of flash memory. It is powered by a single AAA battery, supports MP3 and WMA formats; it can receive FM radio stations and can update its firmware via the Internet. You’ll learn more about the player’s functionality in the next section.