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Question: What’s the difference between last year’s Zune 80GB, loaded with Microsoft’s new free firmware, and this year’s Zune 120GB? Answer: 40 gigabytes. Oh, and a glossy-black finish. Otherwise, the “new” Zune is identical to its older siblings. Yes, the software update does include some interesting features: Zune Pass subscribers and users with prepaid points can download songs to their player via Wi-Fi and tag songs on the FM tuner for purchase—but if you have an old Zune, you can get the software for free. Even if the physical design is more or less unchanged, the capacity increase and the new wireless features are enough to keep the hard drive–based $249.99 (list) Zune 120GB our Editors’ Choice, over the identically priced 120GB iPod classic.
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- Price as Tested: $249.99 List
- Player Type: Hard Disk MP3 Player
- Radio: Yes
- Recording, Voice: No
- Recording, Line In: No
- Video Recording: No
- Music Playback Formats: AAC, MP3, WAV
- Photo formats: JPEG
- Video Formats: MPEG4, WMV, H.264
- Screen Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels
- Screen Size: 3.2 inches
- Storage Capacity: 120 GB
- Weight: 4.5 oz
BuyaZune.com will be one of the first places in the world where you can purchase the brand new 120GB Microsoft Zune! The 120GB is the largest top of the line MP3 player, soon to be available on the internet.
A reader found the 120GB Zune for sale at Fry’s for $250 Thursday.
(Credit: Joe)
A reader was casually perusing the aisles of his local Fry’s Electronics today hoping to buy an 80GB Zune. To Joe’s surprise, he found the only-recently-confirmed 120GB Zune there, right below the Product Red 80GB version.
There were “about six” of the 120GB versions that he could see, but no new signage advertising it, he tells CNET.
He paid $250 for the device.
A Microsoft spokesman confirmed that this is “just the beginning” of the rollout of the newest Zune, and more retailers in other regions will start offering the device over the next few weeks.
(Credit: Joe)
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(Credit: Joe)
Microsoft’s 120GB Zune gets by the FCC.
(Credit: FCC)
The FCC’s Web site let us all in on a little Microsoft secret Monday: the company is working on a 120GB Zune.
A report detailing a test performed by the government agency in mid-June shows a picture of the portable media player, which looks identical to the 80GB version of the device. It doesn’t appear that there are any other spec changes besides the larger hard drive capacity.
At 120GB, that puts Microsoft neatly between Apple’s largest-capacity iPod offerings. Apple has an 80GB and a 160GB iPod Classic, and doesn’t participate in the 120GB category.
And although the report has plenty to say about radiation test results, it offers nothing about any prospective release date or price.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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