Digital Home Thoughts: Creative Zen X-Fi 2 Coming Soon

"Looks like Creative has been busy cooking up some other players aside from the Zii EGG. The Zen X-Fi 2 is a touch screen second edition of their last Zen X-Fi. Models will come in 8/16/32GB and sell for $130/$180/$230."

While no release date has been set, the X-Fi 2 will probably be available in time to make them stocking stuffers for your kids. anythingbutipod provides a list of all the X-Fi 2 has to offer, along with some videos. Short of phone capabilities, it looks like the wee player packs a fair bit of stuff such as a speaker, PDA like features, including synchronization, an FM tuner and support for the major video codecs it looks like Creative tried to pack as much as they could into the X-Fi 2. A camera is notably missing, and I question the output of the speaker, but there is a lot to like. The upcoming release of the Zune HD and the wide offerings from Apple, the PMP market has very stiff competition and it looks like Creative is going the functionality route to compete.