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Latest Zune a solid MP3, but don’t trash your iPod yet

Advantages: Larger hard drive than older version — 80 gigabytes, up from 30; larger 3.2-inch glass screen; touchpad button, replacing the button-within-a-button controller

Disadvantages: Grid of pixels on screen sometimes distractingly visible; communicates only with PCs; won’t play copy-protected music purchased on iTunes.

The Morning Call

Microsoft’s new Zune 2.0 finally confident playing in iPod’s league

Don’t look now, but Microsoft might finally be getting the hang of hardware.
Microsoft’s new, second-generation Zune music/photo/video player is a pleasure to use. It fixes a long list of things that made the original Zune such a pathetic wannabe. Best of all, the new Zune is starting to develop its own identity.

Orlando Sentinal (by David Pogue)

The 2nd story is a surprising story because of the writer. Pogue has been a habitual Windows Mobile basher and he wasn’t too pleased with Microsoft’s Gen 1 Zune.