Zune HD Announced Today
Those mock up photos leaked earlier in the month turned out to be the real deal. Microsoft announced the Zune HD today. The device is meant to compete with Apple’s iPod Touch. The HD comes from the...
View ArticleZune HD gets hands-on
Gizmodo got their hands on Microsoft’s answer to the iPod Touch: the Zune HD. So far, they’ve only had a few minutes to play with the device, but their impressions are favorable. Giz claims that the UI...
View ArticleZune HD landing September 5th?
Microsoft will launch the Zune HD PMP on September 5th, according to Paul Thurrott. The Windows expert claims to “have been told” the date previously, but gives no indication of a specific source....
View ArticleZune HD 16/32GB from $249 with 720p movie downloads?
According to an internal Microsoft tipster, the upcoming Zune HD will be available in 16GB and 32GB capacities, and be priced from $249 to $280 for the entry-level model. The company is considering a...
View ArticleMicrosoft pick ad agency for Pink phone
According to AdWeek, Microsoft have awarded the marketing contract for its upcoming Pink phone to McCann Erikson, the company also responsible for its Windows Mobile advertising. While Microsoft...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Flash Zune Nowhere To Be Found in Zune Store
If you were hoping to buy your next Flash memory Zune from the official Zune Store, you’re out of luck. It seems that Microsoft is taking the next logical step in getting ready for the onset of the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Zune HD Looks To Be the Only Zune On the Market Soon
With the release of the Zune HD pretty imminent, the news we’re getting seems right on cue. Microsoft has a wide range of Zune players out right now, from 4GB all the way up to 120GB, but it looks like...
View ArticleMicrosoft Zune Software Update Coming September 15
The Zune HD is coming, on Setember 15, with a full refresh of the Zune line up, and a brand new software along for the ride. Or, that’s at least what we’re being told via the Zune newsletter, recently...
View ArticleZune & Zune Pass could see Apple compatibility; WinMo phones next
One of our key criticisms of the Zune HD was that Microsoft don’t offer a version of their desktop management software for Mac, thus giving Apple users another good reason to stick with the iPod. That...
View ArticleMicrosoft rolls out Zune Pass affiliate program
Depending on whom you talk to and how you think, affiliate links are either a good way for websites to pay the bills or the sign that a website has sold out to the man. Knowing how much it costs to pay...
View ArticleHints of Zune phone found in software update
The rumor of a Zune phone just won’t die. The fight between Apple and Microsoft typically leads to similar products being offered from both companies. It’s been surprising that with the roaring success...
View ArticleZune software tips Pink Pure and Turtle phone connection
Some detailed digging through the latest version of Zune software has turned up numerous references to what looks to be phone capability, along with some product codenames, leading to suggestions that...
View ArticleWhy there is no Zune Phone
The big news out of Barcelona this week was Microsoft’s announcement of Windows Phone 7 Series, the heir to Windows Mobile and Microsoft’s platform of choice to evolve their mobile strategy. With a UI...
View ArticleMicrosoft Pure Pink phone caught in wild; firmware leak tips specs & more
Hardly has the dust settled on the Microsoft Pink Verizon leak, when along come live – if blurry – shots of one of the handsets themselves. You’re looking at the device codenamed Pure, a touchscreen...
View ArticleZune HD gets OpenZDK fan-made performance dev framework
We all know that lurking inside the Zune HD is NVIDIA’s potent first-gen Tegra chipset, but what isn’t so well publicised is that Microsoft’s XNA development platform for the PMP doesn’t allow access...
View ArticleMicrosoft Menlo mobile OS tipped to replace CE: “frankenOS” for...
Windows CE isn’t exactly the most popular of mobile platforms, but it’s still reasonably common to find it hiding underneath the custom UI of various MIDs, PMPs and other devices, not to mention...
View ArticleThe Daily Slash: June 23rd 2010
Wednesday’s seem to have a mind of their own. Seriously, they can just feel like they go on forever. That hump at the middle of the week can either be a great motivator, or something that just drags...
View ArticleMultifunction Devices and Teens
Multitasking is a huge concept for devices today. The idea of a single use, single feature device is becoming increasingly rare. Today, the lines are really blurring in technology – between mobile and...
View ArticleMicrosoft Windows Phone to be Enhanced Through Connected Services
Perhaps unlike the KIN, Microsoft has a lot of faith in their reboot to the Windows Mobile Operating System lineage. They’re putting a lot of effort, on both the software side of things, as well as...
View ArticleMicrosoft Zune HD Refresh in the Works?
Considering all the press a certain Cupertino-based company received today, and besides a valiant effort from Samsung, there was one other main company that has been strangely silent about their...
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