and it isn’t even shipping the product for another 3 months! Microsoft yesterday announced they are going to update their Zune product to the Zune HD. It does not ship until this fall meaning that every customer looking to get a Zune currently should either ask for a huge discount or hold off buying one. I guess Microsoft finally decided the iPod Touch needed a better competitor after Apple’s last earnings call where touch sales nearly doubled.
It’s going to feature the usual specs for a product in this space, touch screen, nice high resolution screen of 480 x 272 and drum roll please….HD Radio! Yes the spec for high definition radio where the sound is better for a platform that less and less people are consuming due to podcasting and the MP3 player era.
Like my issues with the Palm Pre no word on battery life for this device. I can’t imagine this thing does well trying to receive signal for the HD Radio with WiFi also enabled. Up until today there has never been a Portable HD Radio not because of demand, but because of the power needed to receive the signal. Good luck to you Microsoft, battery life on these devices is critical.
