Comments on: Some more Zune Pictures

By: J.

J. — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:58:25 +0000

Well, Okay MS is making an mp3 player. They are a little behind don’t you think? Just because MS makes something does not mean it will be good competition for an already dominating product. ipods are perfected at this point. The Nano is an amazing smaller ipod. Zune will only be offered in a large size. The Zune wireless sharing aspect may be succesful, the larger screen size is a plus. The Zune design is very simplistic and we will find out if the controls are better then the ipod. ipod controls take getting used to and are simple with only one large defect. The defect is “Volume” now while in the ipod’s menu displaying the song that is playing the user can change the volume with the wheel, but when the menu displays something different like artist’s list or settings the user can not change the volume. The user must navigate all the way back to the song that’s playing or just wait a few seconds without moving the wheel in order to change the volume. This is the only flaw with the ipod controls. If zune defeats this flaw and makes volume accesable at any time and at any instance then it may be better then the ipod. After all ipods and mp3 players are made primarily to listen to. You listen to music, volume is very, very, very important. In fact Volume is what the whole thing is about, with no volume you have no music. Volume control is key.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 04:16:03 +0000

In response to the last post. The ipod is good. but the itunes sucks. And also, microsoft WILL have a nano competitor.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 04:29:37 +0000

to the comment above. i dont think this is the finished product and ofcourse there will be bugs to workout when the first generation of Zune is released.

but from what we see now, the product is much better than any mp3 player out there. Creative does compete with it..but the Wi-Fi capabilties easily blow iPod and Creative out of the boat.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:40:11 +0000

Brown !!! wtf is going to buy that - that is soooo ugly
I like the IPod a lot but the fact iTunes is locked to the iTunes store means I’m looking for something better, if only the SE K800i has a 9 Gb memory card !

maybe a later zune version will be nano size with phone functionality and a decent camera (i.e. 3 mpx +)

By: coops8D

coops8D — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:44:11 +0000

There are plans for a “nano” sorta Zune in the near future mate ;)

By: Twenty5

Twenty5 — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:00:40 +0000

This looks AWESOME

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www.balaiyer.com — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:12:31 +0000

Microsoft’s Zune…

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By: AshNazg

AshNazg — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:17:05 +0000

Man, couple things. First off — this thing looks gay. That’s my opinion… I know some people like it… but the brown color reminds me of baby crap.

Second thing, navigation on it sucks! Clicking up and down is very 1999… a scroll wheel (either touch sensitive like the iPod or an actual wheel to turn with your thumb or something) would be way easier… I hate clicking.

Third… wireless. People say it’s cool, but think about it. You have to get with a friend who has a Zune, sit next to each other, transfer a song over and then they can only listen to it 3 times. Is this REALLY going to be used? You have to ask yourself that. It sounds cool on paper, but I highly doubt in real life situations it’s going to prove that useful.

My two cents.

By: no name

no name — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:19:24 +0000

hey
hmm.. I think that the ipod nano is WAY better that zune
nano is way smaller and zune looks quite ugly and big.
I dont think much people is goin 2 buy zune. no competition there.

By: coops8D

coops8D — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 03:33:55 +0000

well you have to remember, the Zune is the iPod equal not the nano. Microsoft is going to release a “nano” version of the Zune later on down the track.

By: Will

Will — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 03:37:22 +0000

lmao. did you just say the iPod nano is better? dude what are you smoking.

if iPod users can actually back that instead of just shouting out useless crap like that, the world would be a better place.

no one asked you to buy a Zune player..if your happy with the iPod stick with it..its your waste of money anyway!

By: DJ Gamble

DJ Gamble — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 16:19:22 +0000

Really it’s just a Microsoft attempt at dominating an already dominated market by using its money and user base as a weapon. It’s another X-Box… 4 billion dollars LOST in trying to infiltrate the market. M$ can afford anti-competitive tactics like this and the past has shown that it DOES!

Message to Will… the Zune isn’t even out, so there is no way anyone can compare it to the iPod. Maybe if M$ had a product on the shelf people could make proper comparisons? But the fact remains… the iPod is the most popular MP3 player out there… and I think that’s because it’s a good product - (how many people do you know who hate Apple? LOTS!! And yet the iPod is still popular!)

Anyway I rest my case… and when Microsoft releases the Zune (6 years after the iPod) then we’ll compare the two side-by-side. I’m not going to pre-judge the product before it’s out… so I’ll be open here, I’ve never even seen a Zune in person. I have owned 2 different iPods and have liked both. My car has iPod integration, and most of my music was purchased from the iTnues Music Store… so the Zune will have to be pretty good to convert me (and all the other 90% of the market in my situation) over.

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By: Pretty cool if it has enough gb....

Pretty cool if it has enough gb.... — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:42:59 +0000

this looks like a cool alternative ta an ipod. if this lets you put music in the mp3 WITHOUT having to add the song to itunes (i keep my songs AWAY from the family. personal reasons.) then i’m bought. but i’m only gonna buy it if it has a large storage say…. more than 80gb. space is VERY important.

oh yeah you “stupid ipod lovers” the “ipod” is not the greatest inventiomn in the 21st century! it has HEAPS of annoying stuff; the people always never upgrade it enough!!! (see new search engine for 5g) hopefyly the programers on this will be more considerite to us buyers than the ipod people.

ipod = wonderful

ipod programers = horrible

zune + good programers = i’m bought.

By: Hector_PUERTO RICO

Hector_PUERTO RICO — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:16:08 +0000

the ipod heve been a lot of time…
those morons tha like to Criticize the things the ZUNE have and ipod dont well that becausethey realize that they waste their money in the ipod because ipod do not have radio or Wi-Fi and do not came in bron color…
they can not stop talking about the stupid “ipod nano” well thas an other excuse because they now that ZUNE will have a nano…
dont can you see that ZUNE is not out yet and, already have beter things than the ipod and the ipod in 6 years came wiht the same things and they make you pay more for a radio so you can have radio in ti and ZUNE for less money than the money you waste in the ipod it have the radio and Wi-Fi

The questions are:
What ipod have included that ZUNE dosent?
the estupid iTnus
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What ZUNE have included that ipod dosent?
RADIO_WI-FI

By: Russell

Russell — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:53:44 +0000

This zune thing looks so crap. The designs licks nuts. And who would trust microsoft with anything. Apple are way better than microsoft. Plus it is already too late in the game to bring out a new mp3 player. I hope it crashes and burns and then same to microsoft. Death to microsoft.