http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/ Engadget Comments for Red Zune coming on June 10th, try and contain your excitement http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/Jun 4th 2007 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/Jun 4th 2007 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/
I still need to catch up with this mp3 player market stuff... i dont have an ipod or a zune or anything mp3 player related lol... i let my vaio do the mp3 playing business..]]>Jun 4th 2007 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/
I like my Zune a lot, but the only other mp3 player I've ever owned was an OLD Sony/Nike thing, so I can't say how it compares to anything recent. ]]>Jun 4th 2007 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/
You have a Sony Vaio? You should just looooove the Zune then, what with the Vaio's easy interface with all things and systems electronic

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Seems like they are diluting the brand rather than building it.]]>Jun 4th 2007 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/Jun 4th 2007 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/
Seriously though, if I hadn't bought my Zune the day it came out, I probably wouldn't have gotten it at all based on what I've read on this blog, both the articles and the comments. That would have been a real shame. ]]>Jun 4th 2007 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/
My post about the Vaio (and hence Sony) is dead on. I had a friend with a Vaio and you would be amazed at the number of devices he could not get to work with that computer. Sony is not in the habit of playing nice with other devices/formats and I watched him swear, plead, and cry at his Vaio for months until he finally got rid of it and got a new system. Yeah, it was that bad.

As for the Zune, well, I'm glad Forrest and the other ten Zune owners love it. When's the social?]]>Jun 4th 2007 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/
Whenever your mom gets here! D'Oh!

Ha! Just kidding; I couldn't resist the joke!

Um... Red Zune. OK, cool. Whatever. Looks nice.]]>Jun 4th 2007 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/Jun 4th 2007 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/Jun 4th 2007 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/The only reason i compared my vaio to an mp3 player is because of versatility and lightweight (the vaio SZ series is quite good).
For other hardcore gaming (etc.) related things, i gladly prefer my Toshiba Qosmio!

Regarding the engadget comment, i do think engadget is abit apple biased sometimes.. I really respect microsoft for their good OSystems especially vista, I dont know why we have to fight (apple fans and MS fans).. sometimes i think its because apple fans are jealous MS has 96% of market share.. but anywho..
I can say lots and lots about this subject but im tired.]]>Jun 4th 2007 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/Jun 4th 2007 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/Jun 4th 2007 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/i no longer want vista (its too bad that i got it on amazon the day it came out "pre-order") Vista crashes every time i want to do video edting, or music, or iTunes, heck even Zune crashed my computer. so now i am going to make the switch to mac. Don't waist your time on Zune go and get an iPod. Since i gave up on microsoft i now have the 80 gb iPod Video, the battery lasts 19 & 1/4 hours on music (i timed it), and 5 (i timed it) on video. why would anyone want a zune (i really don't know why i waited 6 months to switch to apple, i wish i had done it sooner.)]]>Jun 4th 2007 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/
Engadget actually wrote an article about the Zune without linking to the "5 Things Microsoft Needs To Do To Fix the Zune" article...

Truly amazing. I applaud your restraint.]]>Jun 4th 2007 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/Jun 4th 2007 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/
I think you are placing the blame on a Vaio? How is that possible? A vaio runs XP or Vista, how is that 'interface' to blame for anything? Yes, sony products typically do not play well with many other products, but a computer is a computer. its running XP/Vista. ]]>Jun 4th 2007 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/
So Engadget can really stop slamming the Zune, cause it's old. OMG its .2mm thicker than an iPod. Have you guys ever used a Treo? The Original V? Some Blackberries? All those devices are thicker than a Zune, yet they seem to sell very well, and people tend to become addicted to those devices.

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Actually, it's 40% thicker, and is also heavier.]]>Jun 4th 2007 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/
But anyways, stop acting so insecure. You'll still look "cool" with your white earbuds (even after Zune releases a flash player and snags a huge chunk of the market share). It will be at least 2 years before Microsoft levels the playing field (but probably not much more). And by that time, you'll be in college and people won't give a damn which mp3 player you use anyways (just giving you a heads up!)]]>Jun 4th 2007 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/
I personally "dislike" the ipod, though I the interface is very good and it is fairly reliable. However, those looking for a truly quality, simple, reliable, and "awesome" player should look outside the ipod and the zune; for example, the creative Zen Vision M (or the V-Plus), the Meizu Miniplayer (or even the music card), and PARTICULARLY THE COWON D2. Read more about all of these players at
http://www.anythingbutipod.com/

Personally, I believe it is better when a company dedicates itself to a single field, putting all of its resources there, which ultimately creates better products, like the cowon d2...]]>Jun 4th 2007 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/
I want the red one! someone want to send me one so there will be atleast 2 in the UK so I can file transfer!

As for the Zune can't knock it. Ipod is good but personally I don't like itunes (I'm not saying its bad, I'm just saying its not for me)

Looked for some alternatives and went for the zune, got it fairly cheap and I'm very impressed no issues so far :) Had it about 4 months now and its been treating me well :P

Surprised how long the battery lasts compared to what people are saying. Mine just never seems to die and I charge it every 4-5 days depending how much use it gets.]]>Jun 5th 2007 6:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/Jun 4th 2007 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/Jun 4th 2007 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/When you said "no one" were you talking on behalf your little macfanboy community?]]>Jun 4th 2007 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/
It's not the fact that it doesn't work the way you want it to, it's the fact that it has it, and it works the way MS says it does.]]>Jun 4th 2007 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/
No one cares about the features the Zune has that the iPud doesn't? Like FM Radio? Well... I am someone. And I bought a Sansa E260R over a Nano. Because it has an FM tuner.

(I also got a Zune from work for free. If I HAD to choose between the Zune and the iPod, I would have chosen the Zune based on extra features. But I didn't need 30+ gigs. If Zune had a flash player with a FM tuner I probably would have bought that.)]]>Jun 4th 2007 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/Jun 4th 2007 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/
because, of course, before today, we'd ALL heard of the "COWON D2".]]>Jun 6th 2007 3:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/Jun 5th 2007 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/
I agree with your post for the most part. Meizu has nice looking products and are very inexpensive. Cowon has arguably the best sound quality in their DAPs. And I actually don't know much about Creative... my understanding is they are middle of the road. (BTW, anythingbutipod.com is a great place for reviews! good call!)

But for the record, I never said Zune has a huge percentage of the market share. I was predicting they will in 2 years with the launch of the flash Zune later this year. I simply said they are #2 behind Apple in the HDD category. :)]]>Jun 4th 2007 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/
First of all, it has RDS in its radio function, while the ipod needs a gay little thing to awkwardly hang from the bottom...

Secondly, it has beautiful Video-Out...

Thirdly, it has an interface that rivals the ipod's...

Fourthly, it supports AAC to play nice with itunes(which is the biggest source of AAC tracks), and can play a fewothers...

Fifthly, it is far more scrath-resistant than the ipod, and also feels much sturdier...

And finally, it allows people to share music (limited), and photos,etc... while the ipod dosen't let others listen to songs without forcing soemone else offtheir device...

Hey, the Zune isn't exactly paradise, but if the hardware is already in place, then software can make nuemoerous improvements.... ]]>Jun 4th 2007 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/Jun 4th 2007 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/Jun 4th 2007 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/
Most people hate sonic stage; is that a reason to hate the ps2? of course not!!! Thereis no such thing as a whole brand that is good or bad. (except maybe cowon and google, mozzila is still under consideration) :D
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However, I do agree that all of these ZUne colors are hardly neccesary... anyone who wanted one probably already has one, or is waiting out for the "mysterious" rumored flash-based Zune...]]>Jun 4th 2007 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/
And are you really encourageing someone to go to a site called anythingbutipod to find unbiased information regarding pmp's?

But really... you're not a ms fanboy or anything. Whatev.]]>Jun 4th 2007 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/Jun 4th 2007 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/Jun 4th 2007 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/
Finish the thought. At the size of these devices in general, it's irrelevant. The Zune is slimmer, I find it fits in my pocket better than my iPod because of that. The same goes for weight, for what we are talking about it's not a big deal. We aren't debating UMPC's vs. Desktop replacements. We are talking about bloggers who really have nothing better to do than MS bash and collect ad revenue. 75% of their articles are ripped off other sites and reworded. It's not like they do anything in-depth like Tom's Hardware, or DP Camera review.
]]>Jun 4th 2007 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/red-zune-coming-on-june-10th-try-and-contain-your-excitement/"The same goes for weight, for what we are talking about it's not a big deal."

Actually, when I bought my current iPod I was planning to get a shuffle, exactly for that reason: it *can* be relevant. It *can* be a big deal. Why? Right now on this part of the word is winter, and I could probably carry ten Zunes in my coat and don't even notice them, but during summer even carrying a cell phone is bothersome, particularly if it is too heavy or chunky.

In the end, I couldn't find a shuffle (2nd gen) anywhere (they had been for sale a couple of months in the US but still were not available here) so I ended up buying an iPod nano. It costs exactly the same as the 30GB iPod which I could have bought instead, can't play videos and only has 8GB. But you know what? I carry it everywhere, it is simply small enough to not be a burden.]]>Jun 4th 2007 10:44PM