Battery Life - New Lineup

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Wayne Bell — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:46:43 GMT

My Zune shuts off properly at times and remains at full charge for days. Sometimes the battery completly drains over night while turned off.

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Jersey — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:53:27 GMT

Hey Cesar, or anyone out there, my 80 GB Zune has good battery life and I've had it since December. But every time I turn on wireless, and begin to trade music with someone it dies. As soon as I trade about 20% of a song or so, it dies, even when I had just finished fully charging it, it died. How do you explain that? and what should I do?

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Dosed — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:05:20 GMT

Is it true that if you run a lithium-ion battery(The batteries used in the Zune) completely dead that it will lose a bit of its potential charge? Thats what was said @ Zuneinfo.com. I was just wondering because some sites say to run the battery completely dead before charge, but I know that that was the case in older style batteries because of there memory, which i don't believe LI batteries have. If someone knows for sure e-mail me at Doseme420@yahoo.com. Thank You.

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MikeCamel — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:36:16 GMT

I dunno if its just me, but since i updated my zune, the battery life has been much better

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InsomniacX — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:38:38 GMT

The new design had me sold by itself, and not i see 30 hrs out audio time...Im Sold even more. Then the custom lazer printed skins?! IM SOLD.

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Tokume — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:20:09 GMT

How was this test conducted?

If it was like with the first gen, only able to get the full 14 hours with wireless off and having to play a single album over and over with no interaction with the player...

Then these numbers are of no use.

Impressive, yes.

Applicable to real-life situations, No.

I'm sorry, but if the true battery life is going to fall short once again, as did with the first gen, then I can only say that you guys need to test the device more towards real-life usage than in a controlled lab.

People are going to switch songs, view pics, watch a couple vids here and there, and possibly use wifi.

If the current posted battery life does not reflect this: the interaction of the player during use, then the numbers will fall short of the user expectation when the 2nd gen is released.

Because you know, that once it is released, there are those that will test it in many fields. I'd hate to see the zune get burned by the online community, again, for having lower than expected battery life.

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Dan — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:39:39 GMT

So what about plawing WMA Lossless?

Zune 2 battery life revealed

Paul's SuperSite blog — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:12:25 GMT

Microsoft's Cesar Menendez publishes battery life info for the Zune 2 devices on the Zune Insider

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Alex Wilhelm — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:51:08 GMT

I put this on Digg:

http://digg.com/gadgets/Gen_2_Zune_Battery_Life_Kicks_Ass

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Jacob — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:18:12 GMT

same as ipod 80 =D

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The real Nick — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:06:10 GMT

What about when you are trading wirelessly? I had a full charge and after trading a few songs, both of our Zunes were dead... Our Zunes HD were making really loud winding noises as well.

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Ricardo Dawkins — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:02:25 GMT

@dario E3

dude, burn those songs into a CDR and let the Zune software rip it back into mp3 or wma. done.

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ZappCatt — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:46:15 GMT

any chance you guys can test with wireless on? Since that is the MAIN/ONLY differenciator from the rest of the field?

I would be intersted to see what the "official" drain of wireless is..

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Dave — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:30:54 GMT

Guys, I want to hook up my Zune to my car stereo. What do I need to buy? please link me.

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Malory1 — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:20:07 GMT

Man, check out Amazon. Brown Zune for $139.99 w/free shipping. So tempting...

http://www.amazon.com/Zune-Digital-Media-Player-Brown/dp/B000H0QDCC/ref=pd_ts_e_1/104-2307225-6462317?ie=UTF8&s=electronics