Comments on: Zune HD Pricing Leaked — Far Less Than an iPod Touch

By: Breck

Breck — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:13:49 +0000

i have to agree with every thing that you are saying. i have had a 120gb Zune for a few months now and i love everything about it. the zune pass alone beats buying anything from itunes any day. personaly i am buy the 32gb zune HD the DAY it comes out.

By: Gimeti

Gimeti — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:26:03 +0000

I am interested as well. The price is good, and if all those features are true it makes it a really good alternative. I think there will be quite few apps available for it. I wonder if it will have a mail client. we’ll see

By: Jayayess1190

Jayayess1190 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:57:28 +0000

I’m buying one. :D

By: heath

heath — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:28:09 +0000

i have bought and owned a 30gb zune, 8gb, 120gb zune.. other than some odd distortions at times with the desktop software on vista, i love all aspects of the zune experience. i will be getting a zune hd when it arrives ($$ permitting haha), and i am sure it will be a really great device. the zune desktop software, once you mess about with it a little to figure out the scheme, is very good and really is great eye candy for music playing as well. i have owned 3 ipods, but switched to zune and have not regretted it at all.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:09:46 +0000

Supporting applications doesnt really mean shit. Same as with android, not having many developers bothering to code for the device is whats going to kill it no matter if it technically supports apps. Also, jailbroken iphones/touches are really unstable becuase those programmers run around with no supervision whatsoever, it’s like having an app dedicated to slowing down the device. Personally I’d rather have Apple’s restrictions than ever using a device “open” enough to be compared with jailbroken apple devices. I say that having had both a S60 “smart”phone and a jailbroken touch, both of which had apps so unstable the programmers should have been shot.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:01:39 +0000

I am interested, and I would like to see someone break the iron grip the ipod has on portable music. I am concerned about the browser – if it’s ie, yuk.

As pointed out by some others, it will be interesting to see what apple does to up the ante in the meantime.

The Zune is a great looking device.

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:18:12 +0000

Bryan: No you didn’t have a 32GB Zune because they won’t exist until September 8th. :)

In my opinion and the opinion of many others who have really used the Zune software (post-version 1.0), it is vastly superior to Itunes, especially when it comes to podcast support.

I hope this is a hit for Microsoft. I’ve had a Zune 80 for about 18 months now and it has been nothing but fantastic.

I don’t really care about the number of apps this thing will have. I looked through Itunes the other night and found very little that I would actually use. I very rarely play games so that rules out most of the popular applications I saw in the store. I want a superior music and podcast player and that’s what the Zune provides. I have no doubt that Microsoft will have applications in the Marketplace but if they don’t, I won’t really care.

Andreas: Sorry but you’re wrong. Microsoft is way more international than Apple. Not with the current Zune situation, but with operating systems and software there’s no comparison. Most of Apple’s market share is in the U.S. And saying that Microsoft “tries to be as big as Apple” is simply laughable.

By: Virtuous

Virtuous — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:10:37 +0000

Apple’s unified iPhone/iPod Touch strategy will easily prevail over Microsoft’s splintered piecemeal strategy.

By: Luscious

Luscious — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:06:42 +0000

This Zune HD looks nice, but it’s lacking in one big area – 3G remote streaming. Even with WHS support, I want to be able to stream files from locations other than hotspots, and downloading files all the time is an outdated approach. It’s the one killer feature the iPhone beats any other media player at.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:03:10 +0000

I used to have a 32GB Zune. It was an OK device… However, I will never buy another Zune ever again. The Zune Software is utter crap. Absolutely horrible.

Next time I buy a music player it will be Samsung’s P3. http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/detail/detail.do?group=audiovideo&type=mp3players&subtype=mp3players&model_cd=YP-P3JES/XAA

Samsung makes some of the best quality hardware I’ve ever seen. [Editor's note -- removed last few lines due to inappropriate language. kct]