It looks like the folks at Microsoft just can't get enough of Twitter. There have been many leaks of information over the past few months coming from public tweets by company employees. We recently reported on a tweet from Brian Seitz announcing what we've all been wondering: There will be a new Zune device release this year, this fall according to sources within the company.One of the biggest problems why I believe Microsoft hasn't made a huge impact in the MP3 player market with the Zune is because it's only available in the United States. Most of our readers and commenter's here at Neowin have said that they would absolutely love to see the Zune device released to other countries. Good news for those of you living outside of the United States.
After doing some digging, we can confirm that the release this fall will be international . While we were not able to get a list of countries that the Zune will ship to, we can confirm that it will be shipping to: Australia, China, and Europe. A company representative told me that there will be far more countries that the Zune will be shipping to.
Stay tuned for more, including specs and pictures (We've seen the internal video!). I'll leave our readers with this: It's slim and you won't need a D-Pad. Feel free to speculate.
So far they've been good about updating them in the past but you never know what can happen in the future.
I'm aware that the older version had unicode support. I'm looking for some Asian font's on my 80GB; getting tired of the boxes showing up
Pics would be acceptable as well
Ditto. Been waiting for the Zune in Britain. Not particularly a fan of the iPod, i don't see what's so amazing about it. Will hold off gettin an mp3 player til the Zune arrives.
Lets hope they release the full specs soon, even if it wont be released for a few months.
Lets hope they release the full specs soon, even if it wont be released for a few months.
iTunes Software is better than the Zune Software? Have you actually tried both out, or are you taking someones word for it? IMO, I much prefer the Zune Software over the iTunes.
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I live in the EU and I don't see loads of iPods out here. If anything in Europe people use their cellphones for music way more. It also helps when you have way more devices to pick from compared to the lame US market.
I live in the EU and I don't see loads of iPods out here. If anything in Europe people use their cellphones for music way more. It also helps when you have way more devices to pick from compared to the lame US market.
Your kidding right? In the UK the iPod is everywhere - you get on a bus, metro, tube or whatever and i would say that over 50% of people aboard are listening to an iPod. Even the queen has an iPod Mini, and now a new one thanks to President Obama!
I live in the EU and I don't see loads of iPods out here. If anything in Europe people use their cellphones for music way more. It also helps when you have way more devices to pick from compared to the lame US market.
The cell phone market in the US is very pathetic. When I was in Europe last year, I was blown away by the selection you guys get. US has crappy contract laws, and devices are always tied to services. Samsung has to make a separate phone for each provider rather than putting their resources into making a single awesome phone that can be used with any provider. Its ass backwards.
I live in the EU and I don't see loads of iPods out here. If anything in Europe people use their cellphones for music way more. It also helps when you have way more devices to pick from compared to the lame US market.
Your kidding right? In the UK the iPod is everywhere - you get on a bus, metro, tube or whatever and i would say that over 50% of people aboard are listening to an iPod. Even the queen has an iPod Mini, and now a new one thanks to President Obama!
Sorry to say, but that's just the UK. And you guys don't really think of yourselves as part of the EU anyways =P Take a look more Southeast and see if it's the same sorta deal.
Here here!
Come across the border and you'll see the definition of "truly pathetic."
Try that with iTunes.
Try that with iTunes.
Sorry, but in my experience I think I hate to disagree with that.
Recently, my Zune would turn off whenever I listened to Chris Cornell's "Climbing Up the Walls". The exact same point each time; about 2 minutes in. Seems that it did corrupt during sync, but easily rectified by taking it off the Zune and then resyncing it.
But, yeah, it was just a one-off.
What? No Zune in Brazil?
Please do not forget about us! Please bring Zune Marketplace also.. so we can rent or buy mp3.
Ps. Hope we all get a 250gb Zune...
What? No Zune in Brazil?
Zune on brazil could easily cost about $500 (dollar), and you know that.
And market place, here? In my dreams maybe, but I can't imagine it happening :/
Ps. Hope we all get a 250gb Zune...
I'm hoping for a 1 TB Zune. Lol, that would be perfect!
http://www.thesource.ca/estore/category.as...um=1&sort=1
wont have to buy it off ebay next time.... about time though....
I own a Zune, as do a lot of others, just not enough to put a dent in Apples market share... but like this articles states, some of it has to do with that... but, I personally feel the Zune hardware and software is superior to Apples. I haven't met anyone who has used the Zune software and still liked iTunes over it. So... Zune and Zune Software FTW!
I don't own a Zune....yet, but I do agree that the Zune software is a lot better than iTunes. Its faster, minimalist and does exactly what it's supposed to do.
I bought my wife a Zune 80 for her birthday last year. It's a very nice device; well made, with a fantastic interface. But we buy music from iTunes.
Told the misses I want one as soon as there released here she goes well we better get 2 looks like she wants one as well
They better sell this in Japan too. Apple has had a near monopoly here for too long.
As for what's gonna be in the new Zune, if it's true that it's gonna be a touchscreen Zune (as per the hint "it's slim and has no d-pad"
Not bad concept poor photoshopping though D: if any rumors are true however if they do go touch screen or anything they maybe competing with new ipod touch which may have gps and maybe a camera so as much as i love zune software and stuff they're playing a bit too much catch up to really be a worth while upgrade from say ipod touch. Then again as itunes gets worse and worse and they clamp down on jailbreaking etc it may become better...
I'd love to see the Zune over here, but tbh it really needs to make an impact to tell UK consumers that there are these things called MP3 players and not just iPods.
Microsoft, you just lost sales due to being so frigging slow.
Microsoft, you just lost sales due to being so frigging slow.
Exactly my point, if I hadn't bought my Touch and known this was about I would be tempted by it. It looks like a very nice MMP but they were just too slow.
I'm hoping that with whatever new device is coming, that they implement bluetooth support the way Samsung has with its players, which not only play to wireless headsets, but also pause when an incoming call comes in.
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