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New, tattooed Zunes travel on sale today
Microsoft's new Zune MP3 participants hit shop shelves today, just in clip for the holidays.
Announced in October, the new Zunes include a line of littler 4-GB and 8-GB players. Think Zune Nano. Or Zune Mini. Indeed, the littler Zunes, priced at $149.99 and $199.99, are expected to vie against Apple Inc.'s iPod Nano, the dominant MP3 player.
It's hard not to compare the two challengers and their MP3 players. Microsoft introduced the first Zune about a twelvemonth ago, and have been trying to put itself apart since then. It is beginning Zune Social, a music-oriented social-networking site, and the new Zune software system lets users to shift pictures downloaded from their Windows Media Center onto their Zune.
The Zune also includes an frequency modulation radio, something the iPod makes not have, as well as the ability to sync the Zune wirelessly with the up-to-the-minute downloads on the Zune's designated computer.
At the same time, Microsoft is rolling out the ability to download podcasts and music videos, but that's something Apple introduced more than than two old age ago.
Microsoft also will tattoo a designing on the dorsum of the Zune. Consumers who purchase the Zune online will be able to pick from 27 designings and 20 graphics. Apple already lets clients to etch textual matter on the dorsum of their iPods, but Microsoft is hoping to travel one measure further. Jason Reindorp, Microsoft's manager of the Zune, suggested that it could go more than custom-made in the future, such as as letting users premix and lucifer the colour of the Zune and its buttons or allowing them to upload images to be etched onto the player.
- Ellen Lee
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