Zune 2: The 15min Review

Owie... ears hurt

Published on February 12, 2008 By Zoomba In MP3 Players

Today I was handed a nice 8gb Zune 2. It was a gift from Microsoft to Stardock CEO Brad Wardell and had www.wincustomize.com engraved on the back. It came in a very nice bag and I took it home with me with the intention of writing a review on it this week.

So far I've been using it for about 15-20min and I just wanted to toss out my initial impressions:

So tiny and light.
Box is very reminiscent of iPod packaging
These earpohones hurt!
Woo! Radio on an mp3 player!
Touch pad more responsive than I expected
There's wireless syncing? neat.... now to get it working...

At the moment I'm tooling around Zune Marketplace, grabbing podcasts to try etc. I'll have a more detailed review in a few days complete with pictures and screenshots.

Comments

CharlesCS

on Feb 18, 2008

Look forward to it. I am looking for an alternative to iPod since 1) I don't like iTunes and 2) I like the wide screen but will not shove out $400 for 16 gigs.

My problem with the Zune is that ugly black button pad and the choice of colors. Brown?

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