Forget May, Pink Zune available now

We've had our fair share of Zune gripes lately, but there's nothing not to love here: you can pick up one of those new pink Zune models now at Amazon, instead of waiting for the promised May release date. You know the drill by now, we're sure. $250, "limited run" of 100k, doubleshot casing won't save your life but it doesn't look bad neither.

[Via Zune Scene]

[anonymouspimp @ Apr 13th 2007 3:25PM]

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[BlingPiper @ Apr 13th 2007 10:55AM]

what? no bling?

[McGinley @ Apr 13th 2007 10:59AM]

This will probably sell well.It would sell better if they sold OUTSIDE OF THE US!Are you listening Microsoft?OUTSIDE!

[Mrmean @ Apr 13th 2007 11:15AM]

yipee

[Nick @ Apr 13th 2007 11:15AM]

Europe doesn't want or need your Zunes :]

[McGinley @ Apr 13th 2007 11:21AM]

I am sorry to announce that you are not the spokesperson for the European Public.

[Nick @ Apr 13th 2007 11:23AM]

I didn't say I was :)
Merely saying that Europe on the whole seems fairly unimpressed by the Zune, from what I've guaged in various public gadget forums.

[Krono6 @ Apr 13th 2007 2:15PM]

I'm from London, and I want the Zune, alot.
I've already had a 5th Gen iPod, and now I want to try something different, and my friends have the same opinions. Also, people on public forums tend to stear towards the item with the higher reputation, rather than what just makes sense.

[McGinley @ Apr 13th 2007 11:32AM]

I've found that people who frequent gadget forums are usually far more critical than the general public because they're clued in more.

[Ayle @ Apr 13th 2007 11:35AM]

I hope this is not what we'll get when those Microsoft officials come to my shool o talk about Vista and Office 2007...

[MasterCKO @ Apr 13th 2007 1:03PM]

no. most likely you'll get office 2007 pro for free and possibly vista ultimate.

At least, that's what I got when they came to my school to launch .NET all those years ago (free WinXP Pro and free .NET)

[Adnox @ Apr 13th 2007 11:36AM]

I think we should give 'em all to the French. I mean if it wasn't for them we would still be at war with Iraq right? Oh yeah... on second thought.

[Kev50027 @ Apr 13th 2007 11:45AM]

Actually, that's a good idea. The problem is that they already have Archos over there, which makes pretty nice mp3 players, and Apple has been advertising like crazy in France even though European officials aren't too fond of Apple.

Not sure about the sales over there though.

[Matt @ Apr 13th 2007 12:16PM]

Is anyone else sick and tired of the term 'doubleshot'?

[Cupajo @ Apr 13th 2007 12:41PM]

"We've had our fair share of Zune gripes lately'

and then some

[M Lopez @ Apr 13th 2007 3:33PM]

You're kidding, right ? It looks like watered down Pepto Bismol with a glazed coating ! It's disgusting, and the big black blob of a controller in the middle isn't going to help it's looks neither !

1 out of 10 for effort.

[Andrew Fong @ Apr 13th 2007 2:41PM]

You got Ultimate? We only get the Business Edition

[Ricardo @ Apr 13th 2007 2:00PM]

Espero que sepas leer español, ifanboy pendejo.
http://www.zunetotal.com/node/387

[surrealestate @ Apr 14th 2007 1:37AM]

well, until I can use it with a Mac, there's not much point to a Zune for me, no matter what color it comes in

[tekdroid @ Apr 13th 2007 3:42PM]

wake me when the Digital Rights Restrictions go, plays anything but Microsoft video formats natively and does FLAC and Ogg Vorbis. And supports disk mode like every other player/recorder on earth.

Hype-to-results ratio, as usual with any Microsoft product, is way outta proportion. If anyone else made it it would be long forgotten.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zune#Criticism

[v01 @ Apr 13th 2007 4:29PM]

Some more details on Pink Zune availability

http://www.pmptoday.com/2007/04/13/pink-zune-status-all-you-need-to-know/

[mike @ Apr 13th 2007 4:54PM]

"I've found that people who frequent gadget forums are usually far more critical than the general public because they're clued in more."

LMFAO! Either that or because they're miserable fucking bitches...

God help us if the world started looking to geeks for advice LMAO

[wslcrew @ Apr 13th 2007 5:42PM]

WOW... I thought pink PS2 was bad enough...

[F @ Apr 13th 2007 6:00PM]

Available now?!?! Great!! Now I will NOT buy it right away, instead of waiting all the way until May NOT to buy it.

[Misa @ Jun 2nd 2007 2:27AM]

I'd rather get a Wii.