Creative goes micro with two new MP3 players

Creative used CES to debut two new low-cost music players with built in speakers on Monday. Added to the company's existing Zen Stone and Zen Stone Plus product lines, both feature 2 GB of capacity at prices of $49.99 and $59.99 respectively.

While the Stone will just include the built-in speaker, the Stone Plus adds quite a few additional features, including a screen, FM radio, voice recording, clock with stopwatch and customizable equalizer settings.

Like all of its recent players, the devices will be able to play back iTunes Plus files, which are AAC files with no DRM restrictions. Four colors will be made available including metallic black, dark blue, pink, and champagne.

In a departure from previous players. the Zen Stones would come with no software for transferring files to the device. Instead, Creative is telling users to simply drag the files from their hard drive onto the device, much like people currently do with flash drives.