Go To Latest Video ReviewsZuneHD Packing Multi-touch, OLED Display & HDMI
| Author | Gordon Kelly |
| Published | 16th Apr 2009 |
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TrustedReviews NewslettersMicrosoft always said that it would only ship its Zune line of players internationally when it felt they were of significant quality. With the brand struggling that time looked like never, but suddenly it appears to be now...
Following some detective work by wmpoweruser.com the recently leaked ZuneHD (apparently there's no space) is shaping up to be a corker.
The big news is that player will have a 3.6in capacitive multi-touch 16:9 aspect ratio OLED screen which capitalises on technology Microsoft has honed through Surface. It will also playback High Definition content which can be outputted to any HDTV via a side mounted HDMI port. Potentially topping things off (but here my Cynic Sense tingles) is support for Xbox games with a Tegra chipset powering it all and wireless synchronisation. There will allegedly be a choice of 16GB and 32GB flash capacities or a 120GB HDD and on-device access to the Zune Marketplace.
The report even goes so far as to discuss an international launch timeframe with the US, UK, France and Canada all said to be receiving the ZuneHD around September time.
Personally I'm sceptical about a fair amount of this - because otherwise Microsoft just created the MP3 player of our dreams (as long as it doesn't run on Windows Mobile!) - but let's hope it all turns out to be true.
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ravmania said on 17th April 2009
Gordon said on 17th April 2009
@dev - I heard this but missed it. Any ideas if there's a link/iPlayer footage?
Wilfried said on 17th April 2009
@Keith: To me they haven't ;-). To some people, the current Iphone has all the features they want in a phone. I would personally like to see an Iphone with a minimum of 32GB c... more
dev said on 17th April 2009
@Gordon
No idea, just happened to spot it as i was having breakfast!
Congrats though :)
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It looks like a prettier Touch Diamond 2 to me and can't wait too try one out.
I'd be suprised if it wasn't based on WM 7 though as we know that Zune ... more