The $ 249Zune 80is Microsoft ’s late endeavor to kick the iPod in the nut , beg to crack up Jobs ’ titanium - diamond alloy cup through Wi - Fi features and a contact of divine intervention . CNET , Wired , Dean Takahashi , PCWorld and YahooTech struck first with reviews on the new twist . Their verdicts ? The cup has not yet been breeched , but Microsoft is make very solid improvements on the brand .
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PCMag
We ’ll just come up out and say it : The 80 GB Zune trumps the iPod Classic … For the same $ 250 price as the 80 GB iPod classic , the new Zune 80 GB offers a much heavy concealment , FM radio , wireless actor - to - player sharing , Wi - Fi sync with your PC , and a rearward panel that can be customized with some cool nontextual matter — for free . Simply put , Apple is no longer the loss leader in the realm of grueling cause - base players . While the Zune 80 GB and the iPod classic are both outstanding devices , the Zune has more features — and it ’s more playfulness .
CNET
The 80 GB Zune cuts a much slimmer figure than its bricklike older brother . Measuring 4.3 inches high by 2.4 column inch wide by 0.5 in mysterious , Microsoft knock off some considerable majority off the Zune ’s thickness , while nearly triple its capacity … we trust the latest crop of Zunes should last take keep as a true iPod option . ( 83/100 )
PCWorld
All of the new Zunes are make around a rounded signature - sensitive control that also double as a clickable d - pad - flair controler , much like the Click Wheel on Apple ’s iPod . Flick your thumb up or down the domiciliation repeatedly , and you get down to build up impulse while scrolling through long lists . At any metre , you’re able to tap to turn back the scrolling , though it will finally follow to stop naturally . In my experience , it ’s a very fun way to sail through a medicine collection , even in a tenacious view of artists on the 80 GB musician … All in all , the 80 GB Zune is a decent option as an 80 GB MP3 musician . ( no score at this clock time )
Wired
Video performance is very right , with the screen sizing really helping … Battery life did n’t meet the published specs of 20 hours for euphony and 4 hour for video with the Wi - Fi turn off . My rundown mental test on music was 18 hour , and video was 3.5 hours , which is , you know , hunky-dory … . Would I advocate the Zune ? Yeah , I suppose I would . If you ’re not invested in the iPod / iTunes ecosystem , it ’s the most dressed competitor I ’ve used to appointment . specially if you ’re looking for a subscription overhaul , the integrating of musician and military service just trounce everyone else . ( 6/10 )
YahooTech
… the most groundbreaking new feature on the Zune : wireless synchronise . frame-up was a piece of bar : you just connect the Zune to your personal computer via USB , discharge up the Zune software program , and enable radio set syncing under the options computer menu . If your system of rules is already connected to a wireless internet , those preferences are transferred to the Zune automatically — no need to key in the access point name or password … automatic synchronize only kit and caboodle when the Zune is plug into its commove bobtail . Overall , I guess receiving set syncing do work middling seamlessly , and I loved being able to sync new song and playlists over the air ( why ca n’t the iPhone or the iPod Touch do this ? )
Dean Takahashi
The Zune Marketplace web site look good than iTunes because it feel less like a spreadsheet . It still uses the MTV Urge back - end but is completely redesign … . All of these things represent improvements that allow Microsoft to claim that it is going its own way . clear , they are n’t copying Apple … At this rate of melioration , Microsoft will be a contender . But it has a prospicient mode to go before it keeps Steve Jobs up at night .
– Zune devotee should be happy with the improvements , but even more , that the vainglorious new features are software based and free for everyone .
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