Microsoft Zune Gets Officially Announced

Just to prove I'm not totally biased, here's a pic of the new Microsoft Zune player. It got officially announced today (without pricing or availability, apart from the usual "available in time for the holiday season").

Specs are almost as dull as the brown color version - 30GB, built in FM tuner and 3 inch screen. Big differentiator is the wireless capability, where you can share songs with your friends (they last 3 days or 3 plays before you have to buy the song). No word on whether or not you can load this wirelessly as well, but plenty of accessories announced with it, and the iTMS like Zune Marketplace, to buy content to fill it. It'll play MP3's, windows media files and even AAC's (although not the copy protected versions from iTunes apparently).

That's about it - are you as underwhelmed as I am?




Microsoft Zune Gets Officially Announced - Gizmodo