Microsoft Unveils the Zune HD

[scotth266]

I see what you did there. Also replaceable batteries? Unlikely.

I don't see the issue with it: my cellphone has a replacable battery. So why can't Apple products? And why wouldn't this Zune have replacable batteries?

Oh it makes sense, that's why it won't happen.

Damn. I can't argue with that logic: people have an uncanny ability to make stupid decisions.

 

[Shamanic Enzan]

I see what you did there. Also replaceable batteries? Unlikely.

I don't see the issue with it: my cellphone has a replacable battery. So why can't Apple products? And why wouldn't this Zune have replacable batteries?

Oh it makes sense, that's why it won't happen.

Damn. I can't argue with that logic: people have an uncanny ability to make stupid decisions.

Actually its the people in power that have that uncanny ability

 

[scotth266]

I see what you did there. Also replaceable batteries? Unlikely.

I don't see the issue with it: my cellphone has a replacable battery. So why can't Apple products? And why wouldn't this Zune have replacable batteries?

Oh it makes sense, that's why it won't happen.

Damn. I can't argue with that logic: people have an uncanny ability to make stupid decisions.

Actually its the people in power that have that uncanny ability

The twin laws of politics:

1) Shit runs downhill.
2) People with the greatest amounts of power are prone to being the stupidest, stubbornest, and most power-hungry fools on the planet.

So I guess that I'll never get a hip phone, as they'll all have non-replacable batteries... guess I'll just have to stick with my obscure phones.

 

[Lyri]

What on Earth is a Zune?
Being a Brit, I'm afraid I've gone and missed this little device. It does look rather good but is it a Phone or just a portal media center?

 

[Digikid]

A Zune is a massive failure of a MP3 player that is SUPPOSED to compete with the Ipod series. Now I am no Apple fan....as a matter a fact I hate Apple with every ounce of my body and soul....HOWEVER the Ipod has this POS beaten ten times over...chews it up...spits it out...uses it as compost....regrows it and then repeats it all over again. HOWEVER the Zune just plain...SUCKS. It is bug ridden as heck.

Best to avoid the Zune series if you can.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Okay........

 

[JRCB]

Is it touchscreen? If it is, I may consider getting one.

 

[mikecoulter]

This looks somewhat impressive. I may replace my iPod 1st generation with this. That is, if it isn't priced to the high heavens.

 

[mikecoulter]

What on Earth is a Zune?
Being a Brit, I'm afraid I've gone and missed this little device. It does look rather good but is it a Phone or just a portal media center?

Are you kidding? It's been their answer to the iPod's for years. And they're all over the UK. Just not as advertised. Happily.

 

[Lyri]

Are you kidding? It's been their answer to the iPod's for years. And they're all over the UK. Just not as advertised. Happily.

Not kidding, I have no idea what the hell it does other than play music.

 

[Jumplion]

It wasn't the marketing as much as it was the lack of features. When Zune first came out it was pricey as hell, with not much to justify that price but potential. It was, in essence, an expensive MP3 player with a built in radio. Not hard to understand why it wasn't a smashing success, and I'm saying that as someone who's had one since launch and loves it.

Microsoft has been glacially slow to tap into the possibilities the Zune offers. This won't threaten Apple's dominance a bit, no, but this does look like it may be a worthy alternative.

Microsoft seem to do this with alot of their products, release a first generation crappy version of the product then ramp it up into something better in the next generation of their product.

Well, if you've got money to toss around...

 

[blackcherry]

Are you kidding? It's been their answer to the iPod's for years. And they're all over the UK. Just not as advertised. Happily.

Not kidding, I have no idea what the hell it does other than play music.

Wishes it were an iphone .

Myself, I'm asking just one question. Does it come with a pricy as hell phone service that you have to subscribe to? If not, well its gone up in my esteems compared to the iphone. If it comes down in price, then perhaps I would think of getting one.

As it is, my phone worked very well as a phone primarily, has an MP3 player and a radio has survived time underwater with no change in service and more importantly, I can get signal in the middle of nowhere. It cost a fraction of the price of apple or Microsoft versions, so I'm happy.

 

[ark123]

It's over, MS. Give up. Or at least cram a celphone in there.
By the way, you can jailbreak you iphone so you don't need AT&T.
I'd know, I have one and I'm Brazilian.

 

[Sewer Rat]

Hmm.. When are Microsoft going to realize that they lost in the portable media race long before the original Zune came out?

 

[cleverlymadeup]

You know what it looks like? It looks like an iPho...

STOP RIGHT THERE.

If this thing has batteries that I can replace on my own, and features a few other improvements, it could easily surpass the Iphone, regardless of the fact that it looks to have totally stolen the idea behind it.

Do I care about the Zune at all? No. I'm just saying that you shouldn't make assumptions. It could be better for all we know...

took out the colour tag

anyways this IS an ipod/iphone look alike, much like RIM did with their newer BlackBerry, tho in RIM's defense they were probly developing it while they were doing the iphone.

as for batteries they last for several hours as it is, there's no real need to replace something that lasts for 6 - 8 hours as it is, since most of the time you won't be listening to music for that amount of time in a row with headphones on. most of the people i know that say stuff like that just want to do it and then don't use it to it's potential when they can

 

[scotth266]

SNIP

Even rechargable batteries fail after a time... and when they do (as is the case with my Ipod) I'd like to be able to replace them myself, instead of paying someone to do it for me. Call me crazy if you want