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First Official Zune 2 and Zune Flash Photos

jennyfur — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:08:44 EDT

If that green is like the "wasabi green" of the HTC Touch, then it'll look pretty sweet. Nice design overall, very sleek. Too bad I'm too much of a convergence device person to ever buy a stand alone MP3 player though. One device FTW.

jennyfur

First Official Zune 2 and Zune Flash Photos

thepounder — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:39:06 EDT

@teexcue: I must know why it's "ugly".

Really, not at all trying to be snarky or an asshat. I really just don't get how something that's such a sleek and simple design could be outright ugly. I would agree, however, that they should never get rid of their original color schemes -- that brown was subtle and quite nice.

I likely will not buy one, however... far too many useless bells and whistles that I'd be paying for and never using. Who really wants to watch a show or movie on such a tiny screen? (lots of folks do I guess, but it seems very... not convenient to have to squint to watch Jack Bauer kill a bunch of people.) Just doesn't make sense to me. Make it compatible with every audio format, make it read all the tags (ID3, whatever), and sell a headphone amp that's color-matched, size-matched, and rechargeable -- you got a winner.

thepounder

First Official Zune 2 and Zune Flash Photos

teexcue — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:31:00 EDT

Still ugly and still unimpressed. Better luck next time Microsoft.

teexcue

First Official Zune 2 and Zune Flash Photos

DW — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:30:28 EDT

um... holy cow! that's nice enough to be on a Mac!

so... any word as to whether it will work with a Mac???

First Official Zune 2 and Zune Flash Photos

wetworker — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:18:10 EDT

sweet, i want the 80 gig now.

wetworker

First Official Zune 2 and Zune Flash Photos

slingblade — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:12:01 EDT

@utube2007: I am definitely thinking the same thing. That black border makes the screen look smaller ala Gameboy anyone?

I guess Microsoft had to announce it since all the info was leaked...Surprisingly I heard no hype other than these "leaks" on the Zune 2...

Zune doesn't get the Apple "OMG LET'S FOLLOW EVERY LEAK" treatment.

slingblade

First Official Zune 2 and Zune Flash Photos

drewdvorak — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:58:39 EDT

* New Zunes ship in November, date not yet announced.
* All Zunes (including the Zune 30) will have a new, redesigned interface and feature parity. In other words, early Zune 30 adopters will have all the same software features as new Zune 80, 8, and 4 users.
* Additional native video codecs for h.264 and MPEG-4 -- users no longer need transcode those file types to WMV.
* WiFi sync to host computer!
* Podcast support! (Sorry, no over the air downloads -- sync only.) Podcasts can also be shared via WiFi.
* The 3x3 song sharing DRM has had its three day restriction removed, but users can still only play files three times.
* There is still NO wireless music store.
* The Zune software is all new and rewritten, and is supposed to actually be more than a rebadge of WMP10 now. Friggin finally.
* The Zune music store is going DRM-free, with over 1m MP3 tracks being made available for download. Other details (like which labels, whether there is a DRM-free upgrade path is for users who've bought music with DRM, price differences, etc.) are not yet revealed.

drewdvorak

First Official Zune 2 and Zune Flash Photos

drewdvorak — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:54:20 EDT

AHH i dont care about the new zune, i want the new features! What are they!?!?

drewdvorak

First Official Zune 2 and Zune Flash Photos

joemader — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:51:57 EDT

Please tell me they still have the Hard Drive version in Brown and White! I loved the brown, and since Apple stopped making white ipods, its officially cool again!

it also doesn't appear to have the chalk/matte finsih which i love so much.

what a bummer, as far as visuals.

joemader

First Official Zune 2 and Zune Flash Photos

luckypictures — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:51:28 EDT

Sweet! I sent the tip in. Man you guys are fast.

luckypictures

First Official Zune 2 and Zune Flash Photos

LittleBigPlaneteer — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:49:33 EDT

Those looks pretty sweet.

Also it's officially called Jungle Green I believe from what I've been told. Maybe they changed it though.

LittleBigPlaneteer

First Official Zune 2 and Zune Flash Photos

Marty_MacFly — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:45:40 EDT

Pea soup green.

Marty_MacFly

First Official Zune 2 and Zune Flash Photos

utube2007 — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:42:52 EDT

well the big one looks nice whats with the black outline around the screen on the flash ones

utube2007