On the Availability of Zune 80

re: On the Availability of Zune 80

coupons — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:08:26 GMT

Any new coupons/deals for this year?

re: On the Availability of Zune 80

Paul Roddick — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:07:44 GMT

Maybe I'm missing something but why would you keep your music ONLY on a Zune? What happens is it gets lost/stolen/broken?

I bought a Zune 80 so that I could carry around all my music rathern than having to decide what I might want to listen to when away on a trip. I still have all my music on my PC and backed up elsewhere too :-)

re: On the Availability of Zune 80

Bhaskar — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:28:02 GMT

Problems with the Zune 80

3/23/08

I was absolutely excited after reading the numerous reviews, comparisons and kudos Zune 80 had received over the internet since its launch. Though I couldn’t wait to get my hands on one, I’m currently on my 4th Zune 80 device.

I purchased it in Madison, WI from Circuit City in February, only to realize almost no battery retention. After a full 3-4 hours of charging, the Zune would drain in a matter of couple of hours. Nowhere near the 22 hours of the so claimed battery life. I returned it for another zune in a week as thankfully, Circuit City has a 15 day return/exchange policy.

The second device came with no less problems either. Very often, it would freeze while I would be browsing through the song list and a reset was the only option. After many such frustrating resets, I went back to circuit city and returned the device to find out that I had one of the last remaining Zune 80s as they were out of stock and the only option was a refund.

Not giving up on the hopes of a problem free zune, I drove 45 minutes to a nearby city, Janesville, to pick up one of the 5 zunes they had in stock.

Without a doubt, this new zune had even major issues. It would keep restarting and would constantly prompt me that a hard reset is required due to device error and format the player every time only to keep restarting. Needless to say, I drove back 45 minutes to get it replaced.

Now, I have my 4th zune for about 2 weeks and I haven’t noticed any hardware related problems yet (fingers crossed). However, the zune comes with its own set of ease-of-use related issues.

So far it seems like the ONLY way to keep your music on the Zune is to keep it on your hard drive as well (in the zune software collection). I’m surprised microsoft has not yet fixed this annoying bug which, although does have a few workarounds described on the internet, defeats the purpose of having a large capacity media player.

I intended to fee my hard drive of my music collection and store it only on the device but it doesn’t seem to be possible as yet.

I’ve unintentionally lost quite a few gigs of songs as, as soon as I deleted songs from my hard drive, the zune software ended up deleting them from my player as well. The new firmware actually caused this problem since the very first zune i had, did not have this problem as far as i remember.

To Microsoft,

We need your attention to these issues as buying a $250 player for convenience has proved otherwise due to the workflow/design/hardware problems with it.

I don’t want to give up on this device but just as the other few ‘lucky’ owners of the device are frustrated, I’m getting close too and an IPOD isn’t very far away.

re: On the Availability of Zune 80

djchaz — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:50:57 GMT

MULTI-LANGUAGE SUPPORT IN THE NEXT FIRMWARE, PLEASE!!!

re: On the Availability of Zune 80

moomin88 — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:50:43 GMT

When will we get multi-language support on the Zune???

re: On the Availability of Zune 80

DIRTBAG # 1 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:36:30 GMT

I JUST GOT MY 80 GB ZUNE FROM BEST BUY .COM AND ITS EVEN BETTER THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE AND NOW THEY'RE AVAILABLE ALMOST EVERYWHERE I WORK IN CIRCUI CITY AND WE GOT A FEW I HOPE YOU ALL GET UR ZUNE'Z QUICK.

re: On the Availability of Zune 80

steve — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:20:50 GMT

hi.......

im steve from india...waiting4opportunity 2 get my hands on zune 80..itz gettin me sucks tat zune releasing late...when its releasing?does any1 noe???

re: On the Availability of Zune 80

Charles — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:20:29 GMT

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re: On the Availability of Zune 80

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re: On the Availability of Zune 80

Shane — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:47:28 GMT

I just purchased a Zune 80 at ZuneOriginals today!

Zune 80 Availability in Zune Originals – Today

Zune Insider — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:35:06 GMT

As part of the expanded Zune 80 availability plan we’ve set in place, we’re featuring Zune 80 in the

re: On the Availability of Zune 80

EL DIRTBAG #1 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:09:18 GMT

I LIVE IN CALFORNIA AND I ACTUALLY DID SEE SOME ZUNE 80'S IN STOCK WHEN I WENT TO TARGET THEY HAD 2 OF THEM BUT UNFORTUNATELY I HAVE MY GIFT CARD FOR BEST BUY I GUESS ALL WE CAN DO IS WAIT AND SEE.

re: On the Availability of Zune 80

bob — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:53:25 GMT

Has anyone actually found Zune 80s? It has been eight days, and no Circuit Cities around here have any. I have a $40 off coupon that expires on the 30th.

re: On the Availability of Zune 80

DKelly — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:51:20 GMT

So - has the new shipment gone out yet? There are hundreds of us who want to know.

re: On the Availability of Zune 80

Brent Newbury — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:10:06 GMT

Another vote for a UK release here!

I REALLY would like to know when it will be released in the UK. Or, if I do buy one from the US, will I be able to use the Market place once it does come to the UK? (I know I wouldn't be able to use it at the moment)

Please get back on this one Cesar pretty please :)