{"id":33,"date":"2006-09-16T21:31:57","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T07:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/16\/zune-hmm\/"},"modified":"2006-09-20T21:54:17","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T07:54:17","slug":"zune-hmm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/16\/zune-hmm\/","title":{"rendered":"Zune&#8230; Hmm&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Zune photo courtesy of Microsoft\" title=\"Zune photo courtesy of Microsoft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/presskits\/zune\/images\/image002_low.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>Microsoft announced (but did not release) their Zune audio\/video device that will compete with the Apple iPod in the portable multimedia space. I had written it off as an also-ran prior to seeing Apple&#8217;s lackluster iPod refresh announcements on Sept. 12. Now, I&#8217;m wondering if Zune might have a chance a device generation or two from now. Zune&#8217;s larger screen (3 inches) and WiFi sharing feature certainly makes it interesting to me. On the other hand, why is one of the three colors brown? Brown? And, doesn&#8217;t it really look like a 1950s speaker with the grill removed? Very retro.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more information at Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/presskits\/zune\/default.mspx\">Zune Virtual Pressroom<\/a>. And Zune Thoughts&#8217; Jason Dunn took stock Zune video clips and provided a very informative voiceover narrative for those of you interested in seeing Zune in action: <a href=\"http:\/\/zunethoughts.com\/news\/show\/66\/zune-video-overview-see-the-zune-in-action.html\">Zune Video Overview: See Zune in Action<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced (but did not release) their Zune audio\/video device that will compete with the Apple iPod in the portable multimedia space. I had written it off as an also-ran prior to seeing Apple&#8217;s lackluster iPod refresh announcements on Sept. 12. Now, I&#8217;m wondering if Zune might have a chance a device generation or two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-devices"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}