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Creative has just unveild its the new Portable Media Players X-Fi and ZEN X-Fi with Wireless LAN. Both these PMP are fully compatible with MP3, WMA, WMV, AVI, MJPEG, MPEG4-SP, DivX 4 and 5, XviD, and unprotected iTunes music. The WLAN, Zen X-Fi will also be able to stream and download music directly from home PC. Here is the press release directly from Creative: “We’re very excited to achieve this breakthrough of adding our X-Fi audio technology to a ZEN player, setting the highest standard in audio quality for portable music players. Some of the top recording artists in the music industry are very outspoken about the poor quality of digital music. We addressed the issue of the poor quality of digital music by inventing X-Fi technology, which restores the quality of music that is lost during the digital ripping process, and now for the first time ever we’ve been able to implement this technology in a ZEN,” said Craig McHugh, President and COO of Creative. “We also give you the freedom and flexibility of being able to listen to music, watch videos and view photos on your Creative ZEN X-Fi with Wireless LAN that are stored on your PC. You can also wirelessly add your favourite music, videos and photos to your player from your PC, so you’ll always have them with you wherever you go.” Here instead is a brief list of their most important features:

• 2.5-inch TFT display with 16.7 million colours
• Integrated FM Radio with 32 presets.
• Microphone for voice recording.
• Built-in speaker so you can listen to your songs without any earplugs.
• Exclusively on Creative ZEN X-Fi with wireless LAN so that you will be able to chat with Yahoo Messanger and  Windows Live! Messenger.
• Sync with Microsoft Outlook - contact, calendar, “To Do” list.

The ZEN X-Fi comes in two different memory sizes namely 16GB and 32GB for S$329 and S$399, respectively. The Creative ZEN X-Fi 8 GB is going to hit the market by end of this month for S$229.00. Both of these models are just available for the Singapore market so far.