Limited-edition Wisin & Yandel Zune
By Conrad Quilty-Harper 
posted October 20th 2007 1:31PM
posted October 20th 2007 1:31PM
posted October 20th 2007 1:31PM
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what I like about the zune is that there is so many special editions!
those people look like hitmen too. especially the one on the right
A smart move by Zune to target more audiences. Where can we see the design?
Limited is right. I never heard of them.
read the article, their latin.
Doesn't change the fact that I haven't heard of them.
They're in the "Burn it Up" video from R Kelly. And maybe you've heard of the song Rakata
J.Lo and Ricky Martin are latin and everybody knows them.
By the way those guys Wizin and Yadel are two reggaeton singers. Reggaeton is a music only listened in puerto rico. It is very degradatory towards women and promotes drug use and violence. That's why these guys look like hitmen!
Except, not really. It's rap like any other rap, it's also not "only listened in Puerto Rico" as it's popular in most of South and Central America, Italy, Spain and even Russia.
And for the most part it hasn't been derogatory towards women since it became mainstream. Most of the songs tend to promote sex/sexuality and for the most part the recent stuff tends to be about women, but they're in no way derogatory towards them (albeit, the videos are... but then again, what rap video isn't nowadays), not drug use or violence.
I haven't heard a reggaeton song about killing or promoting violence in years. It's no different than rao, instead of NWA and Ice T's Cop Killer, you had Puerto Rican counterparts.
I don't even like Reggaeton, but at least I know better than to demonize it. I loathe modern rap and reggaeton and what they're doing to the under-20 population (seriously... Soulja Boy? What the fuck happened to rapping or SINGING? That shit is GIBBERISH!), but I'm not gonna up and demonize what are considered viable forms of music. No matter how bad some of the songs are... they're no different than modern pop/rock.
We've sunk to new lows in the last decade when it comes to music. We've gone from The Beatles, to Britney Spears and Fallout Boy... seriously america?
Yeah, with names like that I thought they were a well-tanned Jewish duo. Will they still perform at my Bar Mitzvah?
Why would they release a new Zune when the Zune 2.0 is going to get released soon?
To clear out the inventory?
wslcrew: This is a new model. So they would have to start making it, not use existing inventory.
because, unlike apple, theyre not just removing zune 30, it will still be selling at $200....
So theyre not clearing inventory at all, because it will still be a major seller and a great DAP.
Some people (general public) don't know that
yes, because since its white, every other part of it uses a different "white zune" parts that microsoft is using all its resources on to create... All zunes use the same basic parts, regardless of color... they need to get rid of those parts, therefore they make these limited edition units to clear those out, dumbass.
It also looks just like a white Zune. If you ask me, if they keep releasing "Limited Edition" Zunes, that phrase is going to lose all meaning.
Incredible! Mickey & Minnie Mouse would've been more well known * received! *wonders who the heck works in MSFT's PR division*
P.S. my vote was for Bob Marley btw! Yu done know! ;)
Who?
Mike Jones!
Rick James?
Chuck Norris. 0_0
a chuck norris zune would give microsoft a roundhouse advantage over the ipod.
Engadget, shouldn't you have tilted that Zune? Zunes don't show photos nor videos in portrait! :)
smh @ the ignorance of engadget members. start listening to more music you retards.
I wouldn't call that latin crap music.
The entire Zune brand is limited edition. No one with an intelligent neuron in their head owns one. Zune owners are the same idiots who buy Ferarri brand laptops, Halo branded drinks, or Prada branded phones. People who don't care about function, and think they are cool for using a product no one else uses. We usually call them tools.
"People who don't care about function"
I dunno... When I buy an **portable music player**, I kind of want to to play music. If it plays games or views photos, it's a nice bonus... Not make or break a product. If you must insist on finding faults which aren't there, then you must be the most boring bastard anyone will ever meet.
People who don't care about function, and think they are cool for using a product no one else uses
yea and owning an ipod just scream out im unique and think for my self with its extremely limited functionality.
"he entire Zune brand is limited edition. No one with an "intelligent neuron in their head owns one. Zune owners are the same idiots who buy Ferarri brand laptops, Halo branded drinks, or Prada branded phones"
Or Apple branded operating systems?
Way to show yourself as being a total jackass.
ssuk, If you want a player to play music well then why would you buy a zune? Does a zune even have gapless playback? (that is a serious question because I don't know for sure, although I haven't heard that it does). I beleive there are much better music players than a zune for just music. The zune is a me to device and should be treated as such. We can even take apple out of the picture and the zune is still a "me to device" The only reason microsoft is entering this market is because apple has had so much success. They didn't even design their first zune, it is a Toshiba gigabeat. They just want to enter another already successful market with good products and use their usual tactics to kill the competition. Apple will most likely survive, all of the little guys who have great products currently will most likeley be the ones who don't.
I think microsoft needs to focus on their software and operating systems and stop trying to enter every freakin market known to man. We have MSNBC, Zunes, XBoxes, IPTV, MSN, MSN Live and every other freaking microsoft product out there I think it is time for microsoft to actually fix their current software and quit trying to compete in every market imaginable.
Your poor attempts at refuting what I say is proof enough that what I say is true. Consumer whores. Staunchly defending an inferior product is the very definition of fanboy. Also notice I didn't mention anything about Apple, but somehow it's assumed that is what I meant. Go figure, eh. Most of you think you are make informed decisions about products you buy but you aren't. You feed your egos based on the things you consume, and the Zune feeds the ego of a tool. But keep on coming with the snarky comebacks, I love the smell of smug in the afternoon.
I'm not a brain surgeon or anything, but I was under the impression that neurons carried electric impulses (or some sh*t like that). I didn't know that neurons could be intelligent.
I, for one, do not welcome the arrival of our intelligent neuron overlords.
As to the assertion you attempted to make, that no intelligent person owns one....c'mon.
I'm sure Bill Gates has one, and in a vote, open to all sentient creatures of Earth and the great beyond, I'm sure that most people would consider Bill Gates to be an intelligent person.
what a desparate move lol, #1 reason i wont buy a zune anymore is that Microsoft is a Software company not hardware and no matter how good they try it will always have problems beyond there control, one example is the Xbox 360, a reaaly good gaming platform, but when it gets to Hardware its realy can get any worse, thats why people wonder why can microsoft adress issues as soon as apple can, your answer is apple builds software and hardware, and are able to adrees issues quickly. thats why when you call Msft with a error code most of the time like 90% of it they dont know what the heck your talking about because they can only adress software and most of the time these codes indicate hardware failare
So lemme guess, you have an iPod. Well, not bias at all, are we?
The main issue I have with my Zune isn't the hardware at all, it's the software on the computer that needs a makeover...
The Zune seems to work great for what it was intended to do (listen to music, watch movies, and view pictures).
no i dont have and ipod i have a zune and i have been waiting for a firmware update for almost a year now, and i just hope that the upcoming one its not worse than what i have now, my wife got the ipod nano and although it was buggy as hell when she got it its running really strong now within weeks and i been waiting almost a year like an ass
Here's the link on walmart.com, the picture with the design is there.
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=7934302
the design looks slick, black and all, but having their names on it really sucks... I'm from PR, but I think reggaeton sucks. My bad.
the wisin and yandel logo on the back of the zune looks like it came out of transformers
C'mon Zune, seriously. How many special editions are you going to release in a month?
Oh well, I second what someone else up there said: Zune 30 will not be abandoned or outmoded. They will keep selling them until probably the '3rd' generation (ie next generation). That's just how MS does it. I mean, they only recently dropped Windows 98 support on their website.
As far as functionality goes, why don't you guys actually think about what you're saying. The only thing comparable iPods have over Zunes (Zune80-Ipod80, etc) is CoverFlow. ZOMG! Zune's got Wifi and radio, plus larger screen and soon to come- Social Networking built in, as well as ZuneCards.
I totally think they need to make a special edition with that amateur teen band that sings in the local club sometimes. I forgot the name.
This is a joke, Those guy have good music but come on...not that good... plus they are RUDE little punks that think they are deserving of everything! Having dealt with them. I'm against them getting a zune... this will ruin ZUNE!
Those guys are terrible. Reggaton is one of the worst forms on music. How anyone can stand it, is beyond me.
Up next, the Millie Vanilli Edition. This is lame. :|
At least Millie Vanilli is more popular that the these two loosers, Wizcozin and Yandel or wathever they are called.
wizcosin... lol
thats hot but should have been on the Zune 2.0...shows how much microsoft cares for latins
Rakata, rakata
Si se me pega voy a darle
Rakata, rakata
Esta noche quiero hacerle
Rakata, rakata
Si se me pega voy a darle
Rakata, rakata
come on guys, when i was in guatemala and the rest of c.a. last year, all i heard was rakata on the ghetto-boom boxes.
problem is, i don't think anyone in latin america can afford a zune.
Animation lovers, latin music lovers, gamers, activist, that Microsoft is clever like a fox.