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I finally got around to catching Todd Bishop’s intro piece on the new Zune players over at the Seattle P-I and while I’ll likely stick with the audio player I have, I must give credit to Microsoft for getting one thing right that very few have. In fact, the feature I’m thinking of hasn’t been done right on many devices, not just digital audio players. What is it? If you catch the video overview of the new Zune UI, you’ll see the new Zune Pad. I like how you can tap it, tap and hold, or swipe your finger across it to navigate; very nice indeed, but that’s not what I’m talking about. When you watch video on the device, it plays in landscape, just like the original Zune. However, the Zune Pad controls rotate along with the device and you can probably count on one hand how many devices actually do that. A small thing but oh so useful and much too often overlooked by device manufacturers!
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