Comments on: Steve Balmer: Don’t expect a Zune phone

By: Scout RB

Scout RB — Sun, 31 May 2009 20:51:22 +0000

The Control+Alt+Delete joke is really only valid towards Windows. Zunes are fine and, in my experience, only freeze when you trust LimeWire to give you content that is corrupted. Which has only happened once to my 120gb.

By: the hammer

the hammer — Tue, 26 May 2009 01:30:39 +0000

I had a Zune for a few years now, and have never had it freeze, crash or erase all my songs off the player. In the 9months I had an iPod before that I had uncountable freezings, crashings, and I can’t count how many times I had re-sync all my music to the damn thing.
Just saying that the Zune is a much better player in my experience and has been supported many times by my friends who still clutch to their new, yet malfunctioning iPods.

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By: Raul

Raul — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:10:51 +0000

Well for me i think the zune is way lot better than the ipod…. like really… there’s no use in shaking a mp3 player or flipping it on its side to choose a song. If you shake the ipod it might fly off your hands, because everything has a draw back. Flipping it on its side might fall… shaking it will fly off your hand’s.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:37:45 +0000

I believe that it would be more effective to have a zune phone especially since zune does not crap out quite as much as an Ipod. They also are harder to break and the touch-pads are not as definitive as the Ipod. Sure you have to reset it every now and then, but that is a big difference compared to getting an entirely new device that costs a couple hundred bucks. Not to mention having your warranty expire the day before, so having to pay for it is even more of a bare

By: Charles

Charles — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:59:26 +0000

I agree, the zune phone would probably even be one of the coolest things on the market.

By: Avery

Avery — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:00:38 +0000

I think a zune phone would be AWESOME!! I’d buy it. i love my zune and i hate i-pods they are dumb. Besides i think it would be a money maker.

By: Sean Kenny

Sean Kenny — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:47:34 +0000

wow mike. If your going to say something you might as well TRY to make it intelligent. I think the Zune interface is much smoother than the Ipod. Also users with dial-up that live in rural areas like myself cant even use an Ipod due to the gigantic updates they unleash every few days. in fact i bought an ipod at first but due to one such update it wouldnt let me use it unless i updated it and i ended up with a 250 dollar brick. Then i got the Zune and after the software got done installing(a couple minutes) i was able to use it. also the zune allows you to connect with others computers as a guest instead of the Ipod, when my friend tried to hook his ipod to my computer it threatened to delete all of his data because it was a new computer and when he declined it disconnected it from the computer. Bottom line is the Zune is easier to use and we dont have to worry about a new model coming out every couple of months making our obsolete. A Zune phone would be much better than the Iphone. and for those of you that say Apple has already cornered the market just remember thats what people said about PC when MAC was releasing new computers and now there cathing up. It may take a while but eventualy people will start to realize just how much better the Zune really is.

By: Ninja B

Ninja B — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:09:00 +0000

HA. It’s funny because it’s TRUE.

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By: mike garnett

mike garnett — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:46:39 +0000

Zune phone would only need three keys, control,alt,delete !

By: webonics

webonics — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:12:29 +0000

Well, if only to go against the tide, I use a Macbook Pro and iMac and I have a Zune and an iPod. But the Zune is definitely my preferred media player. The interface is much better. The store and Windows-only software could use some changes but the device is pretty solid. With iTunes going DRM-free in the next couple months, I’ll be interested to see how easily I can transfer those files to my Zune.

By: Gadget Sleuth

Gadget Sleuth — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:27:52 +0000

And they’re correct…the Zune will never beat the iPod. Apple has a pretty firm hold on that market, and it may be smart to not devote too much money to trying to knock them off.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:27:27 +0000

Is this serious? You really think it is worth their time trying to get Mac users to use their product? First, Mac represents a very low percentage of computer users and second, people who are on macs are there because they like the mac UI. So if you owned the company would you waste lots of money going after a small percentage of people who will in all likelihood never user your product? I didn’t think so.