@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->: If he went to all the trouble of tying a noose, why couldnt he tie his shoes.

Curves

If you're going to buy a Zune 120, you might as well get a Zune Originals. For $40 more, you get engraving and it comes with the premium headphones for free (reg. $39). The regular Zune 120 does not come with the premium headphones.

OMG! Ponies!

@digiprod:

You won't?

ErgonomicUncle

Why do I want a Zune with a drawing of a Zune owner who hung himself on the back?

Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->

I will not make a difference if it shit peanuts out of its headphone jack!

digiprod

@ViperBorg: i agree, but just because I love my Zune doesn't mean I've forgotten that I had to send it in twice.

I love Zune 3.0 btw

ajr

What's with the Zune bashing?

I love my Zune. Way better than my old iPod.

ViperBorg

I like the blue color, not the engraving...

oneclick

Personally I wonder what happens to the engraving if you have to send it in for repairs and they don't guarantee you'll get the same device back. Or do the engraved one's get a special guarantee? Just wondering?

ajr

@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->: You're looking at the picture the wrong way. There are clouds beneath his feet. He jumped off the top of a skyscraper.

OMG! Ponies!

@bana: For the time being, I would. For one reason: radio

I ended up purchasing an iPod Touch but let me tell you, it wasn't the touch screen that won me over, it was pure and simple economics. I needed a PDA-like device for my school so I can look up information, and the iPod Touch gives me that (open, free Wifi at our school lets me download the info) as well as a music player.

Usama

Honestly, I haven't bought an mp3 player since phones first started playing mp3's.

That being said, I've had 3 co-workers either buy them or have their kids ask for them in the past 2 months. I have to hand it to MS- they're doing the same thing they did with the Xbox. Fund the early generations through heavy losses, improve the featureset and cosmetics, and eventually the adoption rate rises.

m4ximusprim3

Here's where I stand on Zunes.

The 30gb was HORRIBLE. I had one. Trust me. It was pretty cool for the first four months, but eventually, since the screen was made of plastic, it gets scratched up and murky. Like you're looking at the screen through tupperware.

Second, it was HUGE.

Well, enough of the old Zune.

The new one is really good. The software is excellent, and I like it better than iTunes. If you were comparing the Zune 120 to the iPod Classic, Zune is the easy winner.

However, the iPhone and iPod Touch come into the equation, and spank the Zune's butt. I mean, really, who would rather have a Zune than the iPod Classic?

bana

@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->:
he didn't hang himself, he is ascending above all the backbiting, folderal and snark put out my the i-whatever fanbois.

godwhacker

And does Universal Music *STILL* get money for every piece of hardware sold because Microsoft just assumes all of us to be dirty, stinking pirates?

WidescreenJohn

Ironically enough, the Zune site is down.

I would have liked to see if they have designs hinting other classic methods of self harm. A bloody razor blade, an empty pill bottle etc. They should do a whole series for the gloomy youth market segment.

Bloodboiler

@OMG! Ponies!: I have the "Premium" Zune headphones (I bought them in a pack with a remote, carrying case, headphones, cable, and charger for $20 on Black Friday). They are not worth those $20 that I spent. They are like the $8 marshmallow headphones everybody has. They don't stay in my ears properly and get ear wax in them if I don't sanitize my ears prior to using them. I'm sticking with my Sennheiser MX90's. Don't get my wrong, the audio quality is fair, but my Senn's are far superior. Plus, my iPod got FREE engraving (own both iPod 80gb and Zune 30).

alexmg2420

Lipstick on a Pig. Yada Yada Yada.

Shenzhov

@godwhacker:

"by" the i-whatever fanbois. not my the i-whatever fanbois.

godwhacker

@ErgonomicUncle: howzzabout cashews?

BiZarRroBALlmeR

@Shenzhov: I don't see the lipstick.

MBPro

@Shenzhov: You mean much like 1st revision Apple products!

*insets regular disclaimer here*

Reil(aos)

@digiprod: I don't see you making much of a difference anytime in the future, either!

Reil(aos)

@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->: That's the new Windows Cloud logo...

Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another dude

Zuned out got an iTouch instead. 5000+ Applications & games Plus Handy productivity Programs such as e-mail Calender over WiFI. The iTouch is a computer with limitless potential.

almukadi

@WidescreenJohn: No. They stopped that with the Zune 2G. It's just a dollar, sheesh.

quikboy

I wonder why they don't release more colors? I love the Zune, but I really wish they could expand the color choice. I love the black, but some of my friends want different colors before they get the Zune.

quikboy

That Zune sure does look pretty shiny.

I love my 80 gig Zune, though. I prefer it over the iPod. Course the iPod Touch kind of beats it, though.

aaj111

@quikboy:

I don't care if it's a dollar or if it's a penny. It's the principle of the matter. Not one file on my MP3 player is pirated. It's all either podcasts or music that that I bought. F*ck Microsoft for even thinking that it was a great idea to hand over money to Universal Music on my behalf on the arrogant assumption that I had full intention of pirating music from any of Universal's label.

That "just a dollar" attitude of yours is exactly why we are rapidly losing our rights as consumers and citizens one by one.

WidescreenJohn

@WidescreenJohn: We here in canada have to pay a small portion of money of the sale of blank CD's to the record industry. It actually helped raise the price of CD's because of the stupid tax.

As long as i pay the traditional price for the device, and dont see it directly in my payment of it, i dont care, and neither should you.

You would be suprised the amount of crap you buy that goes to record companies.

I assume you dont buy CD's or MP3's, since you have this great refusal to give money to record companies. Oh wait. You do. In fact, you have probably paid more money to Universal than many out there (pirates), so i would just relax.

diabolusunknownTheSecond

I love my Zune 80gb with the etching on the back
Like the UI alot more than the Ipod Classics.

noodles90

i hate it when people say zune is just copying ipod, and that ipod was the first mp3 player. makes me want to kill someone

the.schimmi

@WidescreenJohn: *cough*hippy*cough*

the.schimmi

@ViperBorg: you're on gizmodo aren't you?

the.schimmi

@alexmg2420: i fucking love mine

the.schimmi

@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->: because it's indie

the.schimmi

@digiprod: watt watt watt? i get better audio quality from my zune than from my ipod

the.schimmi

So... what the hell is a Zune, again?

Eruanno

@digiprod: It will make a difference if you're allergic...

Eruanno

@the.schimmi: i do too... by far the best "cheap" in ear phones out there these days.

jagowar

@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->: because that's you after owning an ipod

anus1220

@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->:

I know you're being snarky. But for reference, the artwork is based on this Zune Arts ad:

+ Watch video

Jander

@almukadi: *except that it cant multitask or copy and paste

Aturayd

@ViperBorg:

Sure it IS waaaay better than an "old" iPod, the one Aple released seven years ago!

digiprod

@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->:

I think that was Ballmer when he saw the lates numbers on Zune and Windows Mobile!

digiprod

@the.schimmi:

I guess you are a dangerous person that wants to kill just everybody?

Don't worry I will not say it. The Zune is not copying the iPod. Their owners only wish they were. iPod touch with 3D games and 7,500 apps, email, REAL WiFi, great browser, etc. I do not think MS could copy that!

digiprod

@Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->: As an ipod owner, you'd prefer what, an upskirt?

yelraf

nice job picking the worst sketch of the bunch. you guys are to zune like rush Limbaugh is to obama. keep up the good work ;)

aeroworks

DO WANT

videoCWK

Remember CD PLAYERS? *blank stare* Folks get such the oddest looks now if they're caught using one.

This blue zune doesn't look too bad. Engraving? That's another story..

MissRabbit

even tho i have a 80 i might have to get a 120...

ZetaCrossfire

the blue color looks nice, though it was better to compete with small iPods, but with all this ads and new colors, i think MS is trying to compete with the iPod Touch. but with a touch screen, tons of games, wi-fi it just beats anything out there.

no really why would someone get a Zune (no offense) if he has an option to buy an "internet tablet", music player, games platform, all in one!!

i totally believe iPod touch will change the music and internet tablets industry just like how iPod changed it before 7 years.

medopal

@ajr: I got the zune80 with the originals engraving back when it was all free. The HDD died on me a few months ago and Microsoft had me send it in for repair. About two weeks later, they then sent me a brand new Zune Original with the same engraving after confirming the HDD was indeed dead. So now I have the Zune80 plus two link cables, two premium headphones, two art scrolls, etc.

Very pleased with their customer service

zeroprime

this would have a whole lot more of appeal if there was only 9 clouds.

I'm a PC

@digiprod: didn't they already do that like ages ago?

Ornament