My wife exchanged her Nano for a Zune 8Gb at Xmas, and she loves the Zune. She was very neutral about the Nano. She’s not a techie at all and I had to help her all the time with iTunes but she has no problem using the Zune software, and she loves the subscription service.

A 1st Gen Zune isn’t really comparable to a 3rd gen nano. It would be a more fair comparison to a flash Zune.

- The ZEN is the world’s first 32GB Flash Player and is cost less than the iPod.
- It has a 16.7 million color screen, iPod’s is only 90,000 colors
- Supports background wallpaper & comes with themes. iPod has only white background
- Has bulit-in Microphone & FM Tuner, iPod does not
- Supports WMV, Divx/xVid, avi and MPEG. iPod only supports mp4
- Supports WMA, WAV, MP3 & AAC+. iPod does’t support windows file types
- has bookmarking feature for ebooks. iPod does not

That sounds to me like more like a preference for a small, Flash-based player over a larger hard-drive based player rather than a general preference of iPod over Zune. It seems possible that she might have been just as happy with the newer Flash-based Zune…

Melissa’s getting a Nano fatty for Valentine’s day tomorrow. She’s been bitching that her iPod Mini is too bulky. Too bulky for what? I love the Mini – it’s a good size, fits comfortably in the hand. Maybe I’ll take it from her. We ripped a bunch of her CDs a few years ago when I got her the Mini, and since then we buy a iTunes album for her every couple months. I think it’s more of a style issue than a function one.

I would choose the nano over the first gen Zune too. I have an iPhone as well that I like, but I recently got a hold of the 80gb 2nd gen Zune and I prefer it and the software to Apples offerings. I was going to get the flash drive Zune, but the capacity was just too small, but man is it tiny. It makes the nano look chubby ;)