Written by Peter Murphy on Sunday, September 14, 2008

Zune… There I said it!


One of the things I haven’t seen is the new Zune UI, after the latest update that Heather let us know about, so here is a video of it in action, and if you use the video controls, you can look at a lot more footage of the interface, it looks cool. One of the things that impresses me is the smoothness of the animations, seems to say, the updates have made a real difference. Although I’d like to hear it from Zune JAMMers out there. Tell us about your upgrade experience, if you dare?

Please, though, don’t tell Brandon that I posted this!

Edit: crap, my name’s on the post, I hope He’s got coffee :)

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Brandon Steili
Sep 14, 2008

I’d like to see what they have to say too … because the Apple commercials make transitions look instant and flawless on the iPhone too – but we all they aren’t that perfect.

Seriously though, I’d love to hear about the new wifi buying capabilities as well.


Brandon Steili
Sep 14, 2008

And Yes, I’ve had coffee. :P


Menneisyys
Sep 15, 2008

Will very soon update and report on the success :)

Too bad I’m in Europe and don’t have full access to the store…


Menneisyys
Sep 15, 2008

OIC, the 3.0 update will only be released tomorrow… will still post on it as soon as I’ve installed it.

(I only hope they added A2DP some time…)


Peter Murphy
Sep 15, 2008

@ Brandon, the metered response of a caffeinated person :D

@ Werner, I’d be really happy to hear what you think of the update, and so would our readers, and it may prompt other Zune JAMMers to come out of the closet as well :)


Menneisyys
Sep 16, 2008

Upgraded my desktop SW to 3.0 and also my Zune2 8GB’s software. Apart from the channels, no radical changes – at least to the already existing menus.

The Channels are cool; too bad you can’t create your own channels. The ability to update them is also cool. I only wish there was a way to update traditional podcasts over the air, without the need for syncing with the desktop Zune software. Yeah, I know podcatching (with everything involved: incompatible feeds, incompatible formats can’t be natively played back on the Zune etc.) isn’t at all trivial; still, I would REALLY welcome full podcasting client support as opposed to the pre-made, no-user-channels-possible channel syncing currently supported.

(MS could, for example, just port the podcatching code from the desktop software to the device firmware. It’s pretty solid and dependable; it was able to sync to all the feeds I’ve thrown at it not necessarily present in Microsoft’s library.)


Menneisyys
Sep 16, 2008

situated outside the US / Canada (and because I don’t want to spend money on stuff for a device I don’t really use), I couldn’t test the new over-the-air Zune store features. Must be cool.


Brandon Steili
Sep 17, 2008

I actually considered buying a “used” one the other day just to try out what Zune had become in the past year or two… but my mind got the best of me :)

I ended up leaving it one the shelf since I don’t see myself buying music “OTA” as I’ve only done it a few times even with the iPhone.

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