All I see is a bigger screen. on thIs website:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/technology/09pogue.html
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I learned that “The Zune 1.0 player is pretty barren, too. It doesn’t have a single standard iPod amenity: no games, alarm clock, stopwatch, world clock, password-protected volume limiter, equalizer, calendar, address book or notes module”.
ALSO:
“Naturally, you also miss out on the 3,000 iPod accessories: speaker systems, microphones, cases, home and auto adapters, remote controls and so on. Over 80 percent of 2007 cars will have an iPod connector option — zero for Zune. And there’s only one Zune model; there’s no equivalent of the iPod Nano or Shuffle”.
AND:
“The bigger problem, [...] You can play a transmitted song only three times, all within three days. After that, it expires. You’re left with only a text tag that shows up on your PC so that — how convenient! — you can buy the song from Microsoft’s store”.
>YOUR OPINION?
According to David Pogue, from The New York Times, Published: November 9, 2006
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“The Zune matches the price ($250) and capacity of the 30-gigabyte iPod. But it’s noticeably thicker (0.6 inch vs. 0.4), taller (4.4 inches vs. 4.1) and heavier (5.6 ounces vs. 4.8)”.
“The Zune has a built-in FM radio receiver, and even shows the name of the current song, if the station broadcasts it. Reception is fairly weak, the headphones must be plugged in to serve as an antenna, and you can’t make recordings.
The big, whomping Zune news, though, is wireless sharing. The Zune has a built-in Wi-Fi antenna. (Turning it on costs you one hour of battery life.)
During the playback of any photo or song, you can view a list of Zunes within 30 feet. Sending a song takes about 15 seconds, a photo 2 seconds; you can’t send videos at all.
Your lucky recipient can accept or decline your offering — and, if you have really terrible taste, can block your Zune permanently”.
IPOD ALL THE BABY!!!
I agree, i lover my ipod, its compatible and dependable. iT’s just great in general.
Nah both the Ipod and Zune suck Get it simple and just get a Zen Vision M Ipods suck because they have to many restrictions on them! I prefer a player which I can use as I please and not have to abide its rules!
Zune appears to be a work in progress, kind of a beta version that Microsoft wants you to spend $250 for. It has a very limited number of downloadable songs, by comparison to iTunes, and they don’t even let you play songs in Microsoft’s own format. (Weird, not to mention that it plays us for suckers–we have to pay twice for the same music).
The FM tuner is nice, but not a big deal. Overall, Zune is not much competition for iTunes. Maybe some day, but not now. How many versions of Windows did MS have to put out before they came up with something almost as easy to use as the Mac? It took at least 4 or 5 major revisions. Come back in 5 years or so and see if Zune is up to speed by then. It certainly isn’t yet.
Good luck!!
I like the zune because Apple have to much trouble over the music you can play on it Ipod.
i like zune better than ipod. ipod is sick
Yes, overall, I would say yes. Every company has to have their first product. Sure, the Zune is not perfect, or nowhere near it, but it still does have some great starts, especially the Wi-Fi thing. Overtime, their products might mature, just like the iPod, and other players have been doing. You can’t just blame a product just because it started. It’s like a baby, you can’t expect it to do everything at once. Even though the company should have put in more features and types if it’s serious enough to compete. But I will still try the Zune out, because it does seem overall likely to be better than the iPod.