Zune 80 GB Digital Media Player (Red) by Zune
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Digital camera reviews of Zune 80 GB Digital Media Player (Red)
Digital camera Review: Zune is pretty good.
Summary: 4 Stars
I like the sound quality of my Zune. It is easy to operate and get started using- that is after you spend an eternity charging it for the first time. It took me 4 1/2 hours to charge it and you can't do a thing with it until it is finished. That is my only complaint with my Zune that its' charge runs down very quickly-even when you are not using it-and it takes a long time to charge it from the USB port on your PC. However, for my first venture into the MP3 world, I will say it was relatively easy.Digital camera Review: bittersweet??
Summary: 3 Stars
well... i got my zune in august and i freaked out, wasnt able to work around it or anything but after some time i got it and started loving my zune... loved the big and beautiful screen and the space and the interface.... much more than the ipods i had owned or the zen creative mp3 player... afterwards i had to update the software and wasn't able to do it either, freaked out also and was very mad.... but then again i was able to work around it with several tricks... now....... my zune collapsed, i reset it, eliminated everything and all and now i cannot put it back in, a bunch of people have the same problem around the internet and good news for us, the ones that live outside the us or canada, no support for us so now... i'm stuck with a zune that doesnt work that if i want to fix i have to send to the us to fix... i'm considering something new... but i loved my zune, i don't want to go back to ipod.... but i don't want to lose $250 for a zune that's going to last 8 months.........Digital camera Review: defective right out of the box - Zune 80 GB model
Summary: 2 Stars
Microsoft was not clear that the Zune 80 GB Red model I purchased was about to become obsolete being replaced by touch screen hi-definition models. Worse than that, it was defective right out of the box. After much wrangling sand aggravation I finally got a new outdated model -- literally by way of a slow boat from China (it took over one month).Digital camera Review: fantastic hardware, horrid software
Summary: 3 Stars
Over 400 reviews already written here so I will try to keep my brief. I am a web developer so I am fairly good with computers, software and gadgets... just keep that in mind. Here is my take on the Zune:
PROS:
1. beautiful - very slim and sexy piece of equipment and the red is a nice touch.
2. good headphones - these are ear in semi noise-cancelling headphones. They do their job quite well. The sound is clear, deep base and they look very nice and modern.
3. georgous screen - the huge screen definitely sets this apart from the ipod. When you fly a lot then having this monitor is a huge benefit. Solid display at a good size
4. quality sound - the sound is very good in all accoustic ranges.
5. FM Radio - I still listen to it. Hello NPR!
CONS:
SOFTWARE - This is the puzzling point. Here we have a company that rewrote the book on usability with windows software, office software, internet software and so forth. Yet they give you an application that, although its intuitive in many ways, it acts at times like it has a mind of its own. Drag and drop is not a simple feature. At times you need second party software to prepare the mp3s to be recognized as belonging to the same album/folder/artist.
Let me reiterate, software is Very frustrating and it is the biggest stepping stone to getting this piece of equipment. I personally would recommend purchasing your Zune from a place that you can return it within a couple of weeks and giving the software a serious test drive. Try its audio syncing, podcast feature, video transfer and so forth. Even for someone like me who is comfortable with applications, I am stunned at how severly limited the application is.
Zune also isn't recognized as an external drive. Forget about using it to carry data from place to place. Hello, its 2008! Worst of all, you can't use windows explorer to drag and drop and manage stuff on your zune hd. This is perhaps my BIGGEST complain. You have to go through their semi-archaic software to manage your music and at times when it syncs, it will screw things up on your zunes HD; files will not belong to the correct artist, some will get deleted cause they no longer are on your PCs HD.
No Equalizer - To this day I havent found anything on how to adjust the sound...
BOTTOM LINE:
Purchase this if you wanna give it a try. Its good but only buy it from a place that you can test drive it and return it. Spend LOTS of time initially learning the software. This is going to be the big challenge. Try every aspect of the application and see if you can live with it... C+ product. God I could have sworn that Microsoft had something to do with making good software?.. If Apple had FM and a big screen on their IPOD, they would have easily won my dollar.
Digital camera Review: great player.. bad software!
Summary: 4 Stars
I Love the player but I hate the software
I think I would rather have i-tunes for software
I just wish the player had alternative software...
it is too bad.. the player is fantastic
I guess you can't win them all
my previous player was a gigabeat...
it was a good player with buggy software..
guess who made it.. Toshiba... who also make the Zune