Zune Reviews: Too Harsh? (and a rumor squashed)

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Erizzle — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:16:29 GMT

how do i delete the pre loaded songs

re: Zune Reviews: Too Harsh? (and a rumor squashed)

Mother Mary — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:39:46 GMT

My son wants the pre-loaded videos back that he lost while syncing... What now?

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Lauren — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:22:19 GMT

Aagh! Same problem with the preloaded content!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Help us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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KEvin — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:26:15 GMT

MY Zune restarted twice on me 3 times while i was at work

and all of those times it was in my pocket. the second time it restarted was the scaary one cos i was lifting a plastice trash bag out of the can, my zune was in my apron pocket and the wire was running under the apron to my ear, well right after the plastic bag slid up my body my zune shut off then my ear piece shocked me. ( i didnt put the black spongey covering on them) made me wonder is heat like the kind in my pocket, or static harmful to my zune?

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LAN — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:40:48 GMT

Oh, yeah, I want my pre-loaded content back too.

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LAN — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:36:12 GMT

I agree with Conzumer. I debated long and hard with myself about Zune v. iPod. Zune won out, however, I'm a big pod(net)cast fan and am in need of podcast support on the Zune so I can bookmark where I left off. I can't always remember how far foward I was. Please, support pod(net)casts soon!

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Jhon — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:32:40 GMT

hey guys,

personally i don't know if the zune is good or bad, still havent been able to build my opinion. however i found this review on a design blog a visit regularly about the zune, might be interesting:

http://www.studio469.com/blog/2006/11/marketing-monday-1-what-will-santa-bring-this-year.htm

Jhon

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JHP — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 05:43:21 GMT

Thanks for the responses guys! I like the product thus far.

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palmsolo — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:18:17 GMT

I have a buddy who quickly figured out how to install and run the Zune software on Vista and so far it seems to work great. Hopefully he will be able to post the fix/process online for everyone to try soon, but rest assured that the functionality isn't that hard to obtain and I am sure Microsoft will have an official fix before Vista is released to the general public. While it would have been great to have Vista support out of the box, I don't think it is fair to slam the Zune since the general public doesn't even have Zune yet.

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Rohit — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:24:50 GMT

TomT…

There is no way in the world that a company could have come out with a product which would have made an impact with 1G player. Even if it would have been loaded with features only early adopters would have found that helpful. With a single model it gives MS a chance to feel the market and work out all the issues with the software. This is a long battle and the first model is just a tiny step.

Whenever others models are released I bet you will see a lot of ideas implemented in it which MS has gotten with this first launch. Basically first launch is to give a general direct for the strategy.

Rohit

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Byron Hinson — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:48:36 GMT

Jason - good review. We're still waiting for our review hardware as Microsoft hasn't been that forthcoming to our site for once in getting one, perhaps because I was critical of the Zune I saw a few months back on the site.

Your review seems to hit the nail on the head though, if the software and firmware doesn't improve fast then people are not going to bother getting not only this generation of player, people won't get the next one either.

I'm surprised by the lack of Vista support so far too - why? Well most of the users who would have snapped Zune up are pretty tech savvy and have MSDN, beta test etc, those guys have Vista yet can't use this gadget.

It certainly feels rushed, but I won't say much more until we get our hands on one, but in saying that I can't see me getting one as I'm in the UK and can't be bothered to import one.

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Apple — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:41:13 GMT

M$ is dumb! Apple is superior!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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TomT — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:52:55 GMT

>So let’s not compare Apples to Oranges.

On the other hand, Zune decided to put all of their "launch apples" into the "hard drive player basket", and offer absolutely nothing to prospective customers who are interested in flash players.

I think an initial two-product launch would have been preferable, with one hard drive Zune and one flash Zune.

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James@Zune — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:29:27 GMT

Hey all - yes, Cesar did mention that Vista support will be this year (you could argue FY07 as this year) :). In reality, we are targeting Vista support before the "consumer" availability of Vista (read EOM January 07). Which means, when Vista is sold in the retail stores, there will be an updated version of Zune that will install and work with Vista. Sorry that I can't give you more details than that.

James@zune

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Jason Cross — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:26:14 GMT

My Zune review went up today, and if I do say so myself, I think it's one of the better ones:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2061973,00.asp

I was really unimpressed with how un-thorough most of the reviews online have been. They seemed like they didn't hardly use the product at all. So I spent a lot of time with Zune and wrote the review I wanted to read days ago. :)