Zune 2 confirmed: Brown no more

10/03/07

Posted under New Stuff, Hardware, Microsoft, iPods, The Other Side of the Fence

(I honestly am not sure what these posts about Microsoft digital music players are doing in an Apple-centric blog, except for the fact that these things give us perspective - and make us feel better about our biases.)

More details and official confirmation has come out about the new version of Microsoft’s beleaguered music player. These include:

  • pricing - 80gb (harddrive) model costs US$249; the 4gb flash costs US$149, the 8gb US$199; the old 30gb will sell at US$199
  • wifi syncing (nice one, actually; no, really)
  • the Squircle is real, and is touch sensitive like the iPod’s
  • the 80gb version comes only in black, has a 3.2-inch screen and is thinner than the original
  • the flash Zunes come in red, green, pink and black
  • sorry, none are brown
  • no longer WMV-exclusive; you can use h.264 and mpeg4
  • squirting is still alive and well
  • new sites: Zune Social, Zune Marketplace
  • FM Radio
  • November launch

Now back to regular programming. (Hey, in case you’d like to know, the iPod Touch started selling at PowerMac Center branches here in Metro Manila beginning this afternoon; the 16gb version goes for around PHP22,900.)

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5 Responses to “Zune 2 confirmed: Brown no more”

  1. 5
    Gavin Says:

    hmm….
    80gb hard-drive and a 3.2 inch screen ??
    Why didn’t apple think of this ????

  2. 4
    INQUIRER.net Blogs » Hospital drama shows, HTC, Zune 2 and disturbing photos Says:

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  3. 3
    Bernie Says:

    Wow! The new Zune line has a “hidden Mickey”

  4. 2
    zune Says:

    The green color looks really good to me, it seems to replace the brown as an “off” color for an mp3 player.

  5. 1
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