It’s pretty amazing that no one’s made an alarm clock radio for the Zune yet—it’s been out for a year and a half already—but iHome’s stepped up to the plate. The ZN9 has dual alarms, separate weekday/weekend times, backlit LCD, and of course a Zune dock. It’s similar in functionality to this other iHome alarm clock we’re currently testing, but this one’s got an Xbox 360-like tapered case. US$99 for the Microsoft fan in July. [iHome]
Stew
Friday, June 6, 2008 at 10:02 AMNice! About time. Not that it’ll ever make it to AU since the Zune never came here in the first place…
I don’t get why MS haven’t gone international. Of course more (most) ppl are going to get iPods if the Zune isn’t even available to them. The longer it takes to bring the Zune out here, the more people will be rooted in the “iPod is the only good PMP” way of thought (like most US people as well).
You think that MS would want as many people liking the Zune as possible – from both the US & internationally – but now they’ve blocked non-US people (internet traffic originating from outside the US) from posting on their Zune forums. So people like me in AU who’ve imported one (and love it) have been kicked in the face.
Perhaps this isn’t the proper place to rant about international Zune availability (and hence the lack of takeup of the Zune) in a post about a Zune radio alarm clock that no one from AU is actually going to read since no one here has one…