I was reading up on the new Zune player. The thing sounds like it is going to be a brick. The thickness is 1.8in. Not exactly portable. One of the touted features of the Zune is the Wi-Fi capabilities for transfering music to other players and possibly downloaded from networks to the Zune. But a review that I read said that Wi-Fi is power intensive and will quickly drain the battery. Maybe that is why the device is going to be so big. Even Bluetooth would have been better, because it uses far less power.
An executive at Microsoft acknowledged that in order for the Zune to compete with the iPod it will have to be cool. It sounds like carrying a portable power hungry brick is not what I would consider cool. But its just one man's opinion.
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Le brought up an important point - did the reviewer actually work with an actual Zune player? Did he or she actually hold it in their hands?
On the other hand, if the specs actually came from Microsoft, then there'd be no reason to think MS would lie about their own product. A 1.8 in thick "portable" player is not portable at all!
It will be fascintating to see what the Zune actually looks like, and if the battery life turns out as poor as people expect.
Preliminary pictures don't look that promising, though.
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