Microsoft Zune Details
More details about the Zune have been revealed today, here’s a list of the new things announced today:
- Wireless Zune-to-Zune Sharing. Zune lets you spontaneously share selected full-length sample tracks of your favorite songs, homemade recordings, playlists or pictures with friends wirelessly, device to device.1 You can listen to any song you receive up to three times in three days. And if you like a song you hear and want to buy it, you can flag it right on your device to easily find it later.
- · Your own personalized Zune. Zune is easy to use and easy to love. You can choose one of three base colors, each combined with a distinctive double-shot finish created by the overlay of one color on another. The player also can easily be customized with your favorite pictures.
- · Large color screen. Zune comes with a bright 3-inch LCD video screen that works in portrait or landscape mode. Your music, video and pictures never looked better.
- · 30GB player. Zune stores up to 7,500 songs, 25,000 pictures or 100 hours of video.2 You can make playlists on the go and watch a slide show while you’re listening. Watching video in landscape mode gets the most out of the vivid display.
- · Zune Pass. Downloads or a subscription? It’s your choice. A Zune Pass subscription gives you “all you can eat†access to discover and explore the Zune Marketplace.
- Built-in FM tuner. With the built-in FM tuner you can listen to local FM radio stations or tune in to programming while you’re at your local health club, for example. Advanced tuning capabilities allow you to see the name of the song currently playing on selected frequencies.
For the official Microsoft page on this product, which has quite a few images and fact sheets, click here.
3 things missing however: Battery life, price, and release date.
September 14th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
did i do something wrong because Unscleric News is no longer in English…
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September 14th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
If this model of Zune isn’t priced at or below the 30GB Video iPod ($249) I don’t think MS has a chance in the market, even with all the features this has that iPod doesn’t…
September 15th, 2006 at 10:23 am
The extra features aren’t even that mind blowing. I don’t think the Zune has much of a chance in this market. They’re entering it way too late when there’s already too much competition out there, and there just aren’t enough unique features to separate it from everything else. Unless it’s extremely cheap, it won’t succeed.
September 28th, 2006 at 6:27 pm
[...] Two weeks ago I posted the newest information released by Microsoft about it’s upcoming “Zune” device, but there were 2 main things missing in the long list of details, the price and date. Today, we now know them. [...]