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Everything you want to know about the Zune 3.0 release and new hardware

By | September 11, 2008, 1:40pm PDT

Summary: I posted the news about the new Zune 3.0 software the other day, but if you want to learn all the details of the new Zune hardware, accessories, and Zune 3.0 update coming to you next week then check out Jason Dunn’s detailed 6-page writeup on his recent visit to Zune HQ in Redmond.

Everything you want to know about the Zune 3.0 release and new hardwareI posted the news about the new Zune 3.0 software the other day, but if you want to learn all the details of the new Zune hardware, accessories, and Zune 3.0 update coming to you next week then check out Jason Dunn’s detailed 6-page writeup on his recent visit to Zune HQ in Redmond.

Jason covers the desktop software (Channels seem cool), the social improvements, firmware updates, how to search with the on-device text selection mechanism, games, accessories, and audiobooks.

Like Jason states in his conclusion, I too would like to see a widescreen, high resolution Zune designed for video consumption. I am pleased with the WiFi improvements and may just have to subscribe to the Zune Pass again. I have already charged up my Zune 4GB as I get ready to hit the jogging trail again and get back into some semblance of shape before the winter months set in.

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Matthew Miller is an avid mobile device enthusiast who works during the day as a professional naval architect in Seattle.

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Matthew is a professional naval architect by day and a mobile gadget freak at all other times. He purchases most of his devices and then sells them on eBay or Craigslist to buy more. Many other devices are sent for review on a 30-day loaner basis and then returned to the carrier or manufacturer. If any are provided as “keeper” or “long term loaner units” this will be clearly disclosed in his reviews.

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Matthew Miller

Matthew Miller is an avid mobile device enthusiast who works during the day as a professional naval architect in Seattle. He is one of three hosts on the MobileTechRoundup podcast and runs the Nokia Experts website. Matthew started using mobile devices in 1997 with a US Robotics Pilot 1000 and has owned over 90 different devices running Palm, Linux, Symbian, Newton, BlackBerry, Mac OS X (iPhone), Google Android, and Windows Mobile operating systems. His current collection includes a Nokia N85, Nokia E71, Nokia 5800, Nokia N810, Apple iPhone, HTC Advantage, T-Mobile G1, Palm Treo Pro, HTC Fuze, MSI Wind, MacBook Pro, and many more, along with tons of accessories and classic devices like the Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 and Sony CLIE UX50. Matthew co-authored Master Visually Windows Mobile 2003, was a member of the Nokia Nseries Blogger relations program, and is a member of the invite-only Microsoft Mobius mobile device evangelist group. He can be found on various discussion forums under the user name of "palmsolo".

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Yes, this is the only thing you can do..
silent.griffin 12th Sep 2008
a typical fanboi comment..
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What everybody needs to know: this will be BOOOORRRRING.
DonnieBoy 11th Sep 2008
NT.
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Of course, you HAVE tried it, right?
Confused by religion 11th Sep 2008
And what makes you the arbiter of taste in personal music players?
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Don't have to. MS makes it. Just count the number of blogs for this, vs
DonnieBoy Updated - 11th Sep 2008
the Apple iPod announcement. Nobody cares . . . . NOBODY.
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Oh, how true the way things work...
Cayble 11th Sep 2008
and some people just cant see the obvious. Its almost ironic, given the converse is every bit as true in the computer world, when Apple comes out with a new OS, then compare it to the blogs on a new MS OS. With the Apple, nobody cares, NOBODY.
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And 4 out of 5 doctors
AllKnowingAllSeeing 11th Sep 2008
recommend reading some of your posts as a sleep aid for insomnia.
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Martin_Australia Updated - 12th Sep 2008
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Yes, this is the only thing you can do..
silent.griffin 12th Sep 2008
a typical fanboi comment..
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Just 3 paragraphs?
Fred Fredrickson 11th Sep 2008
That's all I need to learn "Everything want to know about the Zune 3.0 release and new hardware"? Either there's not much to write about, or the author assumes I don't want to know much.

Carn ZDNet, surely your articles can have some meaningful content?
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uhm
beto19 11th Sep 2008
dude, chill out + read the article.
you have to click the link.
duh.
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RE: Its got such a boring name.
Bozzer 12th Sep 2008
Zune.

Pfft.
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Boring!!!!!!!
Scott Mixalot 12th Sep 2008
Who cares about Zune, I just wasted part of my life reading about it.
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you clicked on it
coffeeshark 12th Sep 2008
It says Zune in the article title, which makes you either an idiot or a tool for not only clicking on it, but commenting on it.
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RE: Everything you want to know about the Zune 3.0 release and new hardware
tercom 12th Sep 2008
I did'nt see anything that is really new. Its more of just a lure to get you into their site. I own a Zune and thought the software totally sucked and now I have a Nano and a black Zune dust collector.
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I say the Zune still looks like Goatscx. [nt]
olePigeon 12th Sep 2008
[nt]
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What a disapointment!! It makes me sad.
sbass@... Updated - 12th Sep 2008
Microsoft has talent and money and can do anything they want to do. I am steaming because if they wanted to they could make this the most kick ass media player on the market. I currently am using YP P2 from Samsung - http://reviews.cnet.com/mp3-players/samsung-yp-p2-8gb/4505-6490_7-32588459.html

This is a touch screen device with a sleek sexy look and a boat load of features. Touch screen UI. Video, Music, Pictures, book reader (text), Text to speech (outputs to MP3), FM radio with auto preset and record to MP3. Voice recorder to MP3. World clock, talking dictionary, Blue tooth so can make calls through the device if your phone is near. Bluetooth stereo headset, Wireless file transfers from one device to another, Etc. Etc. etc.

I want Microsoft to make a device better than this one and they can do it if they get off their #%* and try. The Zune is fine and it works and all that but it is ugly. It's the Yugo of the gadget world and it needs not just an update but a complete redesign.

Why not copy all the features of iPod touch and Yp 2p and maybe something revolutionary like taking two iPod touches's and clam shelling them together into a supper slim sleek clamshell design. Sky's the limit and Microsoft is not even close. That's why we think this is boring.

Sorry folks I wish I could get more excited.

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