You've probably already read our posts about the pink and orange Zunes that'll be rolling out in May, but the pictures we had at the time left a lot to be desired. Now the guys at Zune Scene have gotten their hands on some great-looking shots, emphasizing the Zune's unique (or is it?) "doubleshot casting" injection molding that gives the edges that uncanny two-tone glow.
Meanwhile, C|Net News says "a watermelon red version is slated for summer." Check out the gallery below for fo-reals pics of the pink and orange variety, and we threw in a simulation of the alleged red Zune by the Photoshoppers at Zune-Online. One thing's for sure, the Zune looks a lot better in these colors than it does in the currently available black, white and brown.
New Zune Colors and Marketing Strategy Coming in May [Zune Scene]
Vibrant Color is Watermelon Red [Zune-Online]













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The red will look much better than this (provided they use a nice mix of colors for the doubleshot).
Pink is the new white, which was the new black.
Nobody cared about the Zune before - why will a few new colors change that?
Wow that pink really pops out at you...
I hope they release a OhMiBod for the Pink Zune.
http://www.ohmibod.com/
Reminds me of the time my poo was a different color.
maybe "Corn Yellow?"
Or puke multicolor beige.
There! NOW its the iPod killer!
of course microsaft will probably not associate the red zone with the product(red) fight against hunger.
I actually love the look of these. I dont know why people think the zune is so bad. I have an ipod 3g and an ipod video and a zune and without a dout the zune is better.
Why does someone need to associate a product with a Cause⢠just because it's a certain color? Is red for fighting hunger? Is it for curing AIDS? Is it promoting a healthy heart?
Can't gadget-lovers just get their gear in multiple colors without constantly being saddled with the bleeding hearts?
Does anyone out there actually have a Zune? I wont get one because the name sucks. But then iPod sound pretty dumb too and it doesn't look much like a pod...
Microsoft really don't have the talent in making product look good. iPod uses either piano glossy material or metallic finish.
Microsoft uses plastic look which is not classy. This goes for both zune and the xbox/xbox360.
I have a zune, the windows software sucks, so I organize my music elsewhere and just use the software to transfer songs, the HDD is a little limiting, my music collection has grown pas 30 gigs so I'm regretting not getting a larger player elsewhere, and it sucks scrolling through long lists of songs or artists but my music is all organized into playlists so just use those anyway. I like the interface and the aesthetics a lot better than I have ever liked the iPod, but since the rockbox port seems slow in coming I'm starting to think I might have been better off buying a device onto which I could have installed the open source miracle. Apart from the lack of rockboxery I am very satisfied with my purchase over the iPod.
Changing the color of the Zune will not make it any better. It still sucks IMHO.
Pretty colors - but still very ugly unit.
The Pink one hurts my eyes.
Welcome to the ugly.
Should have called the pink one the Microsoft Poon.
I'm holding out for plaid.
Considering that it's called "watermelon Red", my guess is that it will be Red with a green doubleshot.
The orange one looks alright. The pink one looks different than I thought it was gonna look. I was expecting a lighter pink based on the picture at EBGames.com
I have one, brown. love it.
the need better names for the colors though.
Maybe they could, I don't know, update the whole thing to be actually useful instead of making colors. I almost bought one, then I decided the Zune kind of sucks. After checking it out in the store, the only positive feature it has over any other is the screen size. I decided to buy a Creative Zen M. Man was that a great decision. Way better than iPod. It plays any video format, battery actually lasts 16 hours(I tested it) and it's so simple to use. Puts iPod to shame. Screw them both, Creative has always been the leader at audio and they still are.
Mmmmmmmmm ugly, welcome to the anti-social. What a POS the zune still is, but now in different colours.
Seriously it's unlikely there will be more colors. The pink and orange colors are a Microsoft employee exclusive, as in they gave employees those colors internally. So its not like Microsoft has suddenly sprung out new colors, or is likely to start.
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