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[www.zunethoughts.com] #zune
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my iPod Touch is on it's slow downfall (after it took a literal one when i dropped it) and i'm in need of a new PMP soon. I would love nothing more than to give you my money and buy one of your lovely Zune HD's, but since you think Mac owners only want iPods, you won't accept my money.
Sincerely,
(hoefully) a future customer. #zune
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What can you do with it?
It seems like kind of a waste of $200-$300. #zune
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What I was wondering is if it did anything other than play music and surf the internet slowly? #zune
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[gizmodo.com] #zune
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burn #zune
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Thats why their calculator has a 15 second ad? #zune
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@brandizzle: I was wrong about the calculator, but all the other download apps except weather have 15 second ads plus load time. Which is kinda sad for 16 bit games.
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How about you buy one and stop relying on you tube reviews for your intel. You are making a fool of yourself with every comment. #zune
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[www.youtube.com]
Texas Hold'em, AD's
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Shell Game of the Future also has ad's but I did not bother uploading a video to prove it. I collect MP3 player's and yes I do have a ZuneHD, it has a nice interface, but its over hyped. Also, personal attacks dont help your point at all.
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I have a Zune 80 and the HD would be a nice upgrade....for music only.
I think the Zune HD fails at everything except playing music. I am happy with my itouch and I am glad I made the switch. I dont have to bring my laptop around if I want to do standard internet stuff on campus. I wouldnt have been able to do that with the Zune HD. #zune
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Uh, how exactly? Its video playback blows other PMP devices in its price range out of the water and it works beautifully when hooked up to my TV.
In fact, the only thing that makes the browser worse than mobile safari is the fact that the rendering wasn't as quick as it was on Safari, which is fixed this update. #zune
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It's particularly annoying if you like to listen to music while using apps that pause whatevers playing on startup.
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@BlueGeek: Yes, exactly. And I've been 1. using the Apple discussion forums to complain (along with several others, most notably 1G iPod touch users who don't have volume controls on the device *at all*) and 2. using Apple's request form to tell them to revert to the previous featureset. I also sent a rather curt email to Steve Jobs and Paul Schiller because it angers me so much. I've been fighting for a universal app sound override Settings option since September 2008.
To @EBone, @kazinstrife (and even my new friend Spinny who can't see his own comment yet): Before firmware v3.1, if you double tapped the home button while an app was running, you'd get a pop-up of the iPod controls. If you double-tap now and fix it in the Settings menu, it exits OUT of the app and takes you to the music app. Not what I'm looking for.
See the YouTube video above for an explanation.
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Also, all new ipods touches (g3 i know, not sure of the 8 gig), and iPhones come with the headphone with mic and volume controls.
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The problem for me is when I am running a game and want to at least have control of my music. If the game is running and the game is set to automatically turn off my music, I have no way of getting the music app again via double-tapping. And that issue is even worse for people who are running 1st gen touches because they have no access to volume control at *all*.
It's a real shame that Apple doesn't care to address this and even removed its functionality with the 3.x firmware.
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Make sure Settings - General - Home has "iPod" selected and "iPod Controls" set to On.
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For me it's a double tap while the iPhone is still locked. That always brings up basic iPod controls for me no matter what's happening (or not happening) on my iPhone. Just previos/play/pause/next and, if something's playing, the basic track info.
This even works when I'm in, say, Tap Tap Revenge.
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I was about to send this above reply when I decided to verify. It does work when I'm in the menu of Tap Tap Revenge, but not during gameplay. However, although TTR took control of the audio, once I exited to the TTR menu out of the gameplay screen, I could then lock, double-tap home, and click play once again.
So the only time this doesn't work is when a game is actively taking over the audio. It works fine once a game lets go, sometimes without exiting the app, and you don't have to re-open the iPod app to get it to work after something else has stopped your playback. #iphoneos312
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