Who Wants Zune 2?
According to Engadget,
According to reports from a “source” inside Microsoft, a new batch of Zunes (AKA Zune 2, Draco, Scorpio, etc.) are due out on October 16th (just in time for the holidays), in both flash memory- and hard drive-based forms. The new, smaller, flash Zune (the Draco) will be hitting shelves in pink, red, black, or army green colors, will have a 4GB or 8GB capacity, and will feature a “squircle” (the source’s term, not ours) for navigation, which won’t have a center button but can be pushed, “From any side.” The hard drive-based player (the Scorpio) will be available in 80GB, sports the soon-to-be infamous “squircle,” and touts a screen which the source claims is “awesome” for video.
This sounds like progress, but at this speed they will never catch th e iPod/iPhone. MS needs to pick up the pace if they want this device to really compete.
September 20th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
I am looking forward to the Zune 2 arrival with much anticipation. Never cared for Apple products myself.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Have you tried the first gen Zunes?
September 21st, 2007 at 10:13 am
I also can’t wait how the new zune will work, I hope its a very promising mp3 player. Also, why I’m not going for ipod, well b/c they suck. I had three iPods and each of them broke within one year apart. In addition, I got 4th from the 5th model, replacement plan(free) and well that broke within 4 months. It’s very upsetting to waste so much money on flawed products, although other people had no problems with their ipods.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:38 am
That’s interesting. I’m on my third iPod - the first two times the hard drive went bad, fortunately the first time I was under warranty and was able to buy an extended warranty which ended up covering the second break down.
Did you have hard drive problems as well?
September 21st, 2007 at 6:07 pm
I also can’t wait for the new Zunes to come out because I’m always interested in how many new ways Microsoft can lose more money on their “innovative” hardware.
September 21st, 2007 at 7:46 pm
I have an ipod i’m trying to fix this very second and if i can’t get it to work i’m definitely buying a zune 2. I have four other friends and between them five ipods and four of them have broken, not including mine which might make it 5 for 6 in a little bit. I don’t think it’s fair to charge 300 dollars for something that seems to break for a significant part of the consumer population after 2 or 3 years. I don’t know if the zune will be any better but i’m enormously frustrated with apple’s customer help, which they charge for by the way, that i will never buy another ipod as long as there is a somewhat decent competitor out. I feel that the apple fanboys are soo vocal about how they like apple that their reputation is much better than what they actually deliver.