Zune 2 leaks out in three flavors

Well, we'd heard new Zunes were coming tomorrow (or maybe October 16th) and it looks like retailers are starting to receive display units -- everyone, say hello to the new Zunes. Barring some Photoshop trickeration, it looks like we're getting two flash models and a slimmed-down hard drive edition, but we'll leave it to you to figure what this all means in the comments.

Update: We're also hearing that a Zune 1 firmware update rolled out today -- interesting. We'll dig out our Zunes and let you know what (if anything) got updated ASAP.

Update 2: False alarm on the firmware update -- but we do know that we'll be hearing about one when the new Zunes are announced Wednesday.

[Thanks, Nate]

[theycallmetak Posted Oct 3rd 2007 9:08AM]

I'll take an 80 gig.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2007 4:41AM]

When the ipod plays wide-screen movies, you end up losing a huge chunk of screen to letterboxing (the black bands above and below a wide screen movie when displayed on a non-widescreen display)

With the Zune, youll lose some screen to letterboxing, but not as much...