Having used one of the new Zunes, I have to say that the controls on the Zune are much, much more comfortable to use than the click wheel. Rotating your thumb in circles is not good - being able to go side to side or up and down without having to go around in circles is a bit nicer.
I dont understand how this is any better, in fact it is worse than the zune. Did you go online at all yesterday? FM song tagging, wifi syncing anywhere on earth, and a portable zune marketplace were all released for the zune. The capacities were all bumped, and they are still under $300. The zune only needs a better advertising campaign and they will win the DAP fight. I don't love Microsoft, I just hate apple. I enjoy my Zune and Vista, and I don't need a grande skim latte and a black turtleneck to enjoy them.
I think the original iPod was great, they should go back to that. The iPod touch is cool, but it is too large and way too expensive. Sure, the first gen zune was kind of half assed for its time, but the second version is incredible. If there is that big a jump up for the third version, I will be first in line to get a new Zune. Provided that it is not a touch screen, because that is the most unnecessary thing in a DAP.
The phone has 256MB of RAM and a 1GHz processor, which do the job reasonably well, though the Anna interface will likely leave something to be desired for many smartphone users.
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In my opinion they just took the design of Zune and made it a lot better. Thats why Microsoft should have done.
BTW
When is iTunes 8 coming out?
BTW it comes out today.
Having used one of the new Zunes, I have to say that the controls on the Zune are much, much more comfortable to use than the click wheel. Rotating your thumb in circles is not good - being able to go side to side or up and down without having to go around in circles is a bit nicer.
I'm sorry, what was that? Apple copied Microsoft you say?
I dont understand how this is any better, in fact it is worse than the zune. Did you go online at all yesterday? FM song tagging, wifi syncing anywhere on earth, and a portable zune marketplace were all released for the zune. The capacities were all bumped, and they are still under $300. The zune only needs a better advertising campaign and they will win the DAP fight. I don't love Microsoft, I just hate apple. I enjoy my Zune and Vista, and I don't need a grande skim latte and a black turtleneck to enjoy them.
I think the original iPod was great, they should go back to that. The iPod touch is cool, but it is too large and way too expensive. Sure, the first gen zune was kind of half assed for its time, but the second version is incredible. If there is that big a jump up for the third version, I will be first in line to get a new Zune. Provided that it is not a touch screen, because that is the most unnecessary thing in a DAP.
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