(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.)
October 6th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
hmm….
80gb hard-drive and a 3.2 inch screen ??
Why didn’t apple think of this ????
October 4th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
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October 4th, 2007 at 10:20 am
Wow! The new Zune line has a “hidden Mickey”
October 4th, 2007 at 1:34 am
The green color looks really good to me, it seems to replace the brown as an “off” color for an mp3 player.
October 4th, 2007 at 12:41 am
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