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Microsoft Planning Ahead For the Holidays with Zune

Microsoft is rumored to launch 'Zune', a music/media/game player on November 14th. Zune should have a 30GB drive, black, brown, and cotton color options, with a duotone approach on each, FM tuner, 13 first party accessories available at launch, and a 50% larger screen than the iPod with video.

Microsoft Zune 30GB will cost USD 399. For the same amount of money Apple sells iPod 60GB, whereas iPod 30GB costs USD 299. Microsoft, however, believes that customers will be eager to pay more for its Zune player because it has broader feature-set, including ad-hoc music sharing between a group of people in the range of the device as well as digital radio.

The menu options of the player will include 'Music', 'Video', 'Pictures', 'Community', 'Extras' and 'Settings'. It is unknown, whether the device will be able to play games, as there is no such option in the menu, but it is known that the initial target group for Zune will be the existing Xbox customers.


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