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Zune Unboxed By CBS

Chris Stephenson of Microsoft (and now CBS) fame unboxes the Zune for your enjoyment. He shows off the sleek packaging, the brown-ness, FM radio, background-changing, and Zune-iness of the device.

Oh, to be British...and also working for Microsoft. We recommend you don't look if you want to have the full impact of your unboxing. – Jason Chen

Video [CBS via Engadget]

5:41 PM on Tue Oct 3 2006
By Jason Chen
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Tank at 05:20 PM on 10/03/06
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It just doesn't look very pocketable.

For me, it'd be like going from my RAZR back to my old clunky Nokia.
tzakiel at 05:21 PM on 10/03/06
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Look or don't look.. no one's buying a zune anyway. It's going to be a dead product in a year.
Sockatume at 05:24 PM on 10/03/06
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Horatio uses an iPod. He tried Zune but the direction controls were... murder.
color_guru at 05:41 PM on 10/03/06
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umm...no, not everyone loves the radio. that's why i bought a damn ipod in the first place, so i don't have to listen to crap radio.
ProsumeThis at 05:44 PM on 10/03/06
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Did you know that Game Stop will be carrying Zune? That's pretty weird.
miss_ju at 06:00 PM on 10/03/06
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The "everybody loves the radio" comment is a load of crap and most people couldn't care less if it has one or not. The point of owning an MP3 player is to be able to listen to *your* music and not commercial crap.

On the other hand, I sort of wish MP3 players had AM tuning... I do enjoy talk radio!
bigTrue at 06:02 PM on 10/03/06
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Unboxing stuff is lame. why do I want to watch somebody else either open something I do want and don't have yet or don't want and don't care about?

Giz, for somebody's sake, stop with the unboxing stories.
yardameus at 06:13 PM on 10/03/06
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True dat bigTrue. It's like they said in grade school. If your going to bring something special, you'd better bring enough for the whole class. Unboxing would be bearable if I had one of my own to unbox at the same time.
tundraboy at 06:16 PM on 10/03/06
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Brown is lame. There's a reason nobody else sells brown gadgets. It's the colour of you know what.
Monty at 06:48 PM on 10/03/06
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I vote in favor of the unboxing stories, folks, including this one.

I can't afford to purchase these gadgets (damn kids), so I have to live vicariously.
spenc938 at 10:48 PM on 10/03/06
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color_guru
"umm...no, not everyone loves the radio. that's why i bought a damn ipod in the first place, so i don't have to listen to crap radio."

So when something has radio, that means you absolutely "have to listen to it?" You dumbass.
ki_cz at 02:57 AM on 10/04/06
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This thing is not only enormous, it's enormously ugly. What the hell were the "designers" thinking. This thing is going to be a raging failure which will make all of the "hype" (read: I think Gizmodo is the only site actually excited about this thing) absolutely a waste of time.
Lis at 06:46 AM on 10/04/06
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the main navigation control looks like the underside of a suction cap. cheap looking, but at least it wouldn't attract as many scratches as an iPod....
Worf at 01:51 PM on 10/04/06
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Well, they almost always include an FM radio, which is completely useless to me (enough so that "FM-only radio" is a turnoff). Sorry, but I want an AM or AM/FM radio because I want local news (on the AM band).