Turn On, Zune In, Drop Out
New iPod this week. Some of you out there know just how excited I am. But have any of you actually looked at it?
"A thinner design. Five stylish colors. A brighter display. Up to 24 hours of battery life. Just about the only thing that hasnât changed is the name. In 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB models starting at $149, iPod nano puts up to 2,000 songs in your pocket."
Pretty eimpressive eh? New colors, (much needed) battery life, and a size bump. Frankly, I'd expect more than garden variety upgrades from a company who claims to "Think different." Especially if they're gonna hype it like its a Deity.
Isn't it about time for somthing really different? Instead of just alternating between shiny metal and shiny plastic, how about somthing new.
Enter the Zune.
Now a device I'm personally very excited to see, the Zune, seems to have some real different ideas. The Zune is a pocket sized video music and picture jukebox with the ability to share tunes wirlessly directly to another zune as shown in the vid above. Although I think these birds will explain it better. The player has a built in wifi connection, which it can use to share music and serve as a voip phone. Shared (beamed) tunes will remain usable for three days or three plays, whichever comes first and can be marked for downloading from the a service called the "Zune marketplace".
Did I mention that that screen is a half inch larger than the iPods? It also detects the orientation of the player and adjusts from vertical to horizontal automatically.
The sharealicious player also has a built in radio, can beam photos for permanent use and comes in:
yin black, yang white
and 70's style wooden brown.
Now here's the shocker. The sweet player you see above is made by Microsoft. Yup that's right, remember that boring guy from the commercials? The guy who doesn't have any fun, because apparently mac users haven't heard of video games or movies or digital cameras working on pc's, that guy made this thing. The zune is designed to sync directly with the Xbox and Xbox 360.
It can't come Zune enough for me.
Comments
you're a nut.
The battery life should also be comparable to the ipod (More on Zune).
Stephane, I guess the zune player battery life is almost the same as Ipod. If I am not wrong according to zuneinsider it's 13 hrs of play time with wi-fi on. Pretty impressive.
Zune. It can't go away faster.