Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Zune HD: Revisited”.
Hey guys in this mkbhd video we’re going to be revisiting. What i think is the single most underrated piece of hardware out there today there are a lot of consumer electronics that i could have talked about, but i know it’s a bit of a random video, but i want to talk to you guys today about the zune Hd by microsoft, i’m even gon na be crazy enough to put it out there, as my number one mp3 player over everything else out there yeah. I know i’m gon na get a lot of comments saying. Well, you know it’s the holiday season.
Everyone just got their ipod touch and microsoft really just missed the boat with the holiday season sales and the zune hd2, and none of that really working out, but still, nevertheless, i think the zune hd really deserves a shot. So let me go ahead and take a look. The awesome, pocketable design of the zune hd is arguably best in its class and all the buttons around it are really nicely laid out by microsoft.
With the home button up, the front reminds you of the ipod touch, of course, and the power button up top and everything is just nicely spaced, also keep in mind. It’S only nine millimeters thick, so it’s thinner than the thinnest of the mp3 players out there. Very, very lightweight as well: it has an all black design in the black version, and you can also get a platinum version, which is a combination of silver and black, and that looks really good too. The front of the device boasts a 3.3 inch high resolution. Oled display this contributes to a number of things. First of all, it’s ridiculously long battery life.
I can literally unplug this thing off the charger and it’ll go for a week without charging. Second, it contributes to a very nice, responsive and fun to use ui. The user interface of the zooming gd is based off of an original operating system that they later brought over to the windows phone 7 platform. But it’s really, as you can see, really intuitive, really responsive and it’s classified mostly by speed.
So if you’ve ever used a zoom hd, you know that even without a gigahertz processor, it is a really fast device. You can also learn to navigate around it within a probably about an hour learning curve. There really isn’t that much to learn when getting to use the zoom. You also get to know the hardware buttons on the side of the device pretty quickly and you’ll, get to controlling your music in your pocket pretty soon, even without looking at the screen. In fact, i found that it’s easier without a cook wheel to actually you know, adjust the volume and do things in my pocket when i’m not looking at the device things that you just kind of think of like swiping to go to the next track or dragging Up and down to increase or decrease the volume are all things that just kind of come, naturally, which decreases the learning curve to the zune hd. Now there are two main things that really separate the ipod touch from the zune hd, and i hope you watch this far into the video. The two things are the marketplace and the actual gameplay of applications. Now the zoom hd has that oled display and colors really pop when you’re, actually playing apps uh versus the retina display, which is an ips display, but still is really nice and also the marketplace in the zoom hd.
I mean, let’s face it, it sucks. It’S really not that great doesn’t have that many applications, but i’ll tell you what application gameplay of that ferrari app, which is one of the key apps that that really got me. You know really hoping for the zoom hd is incredible: it’s really really fun. It’S difficult to show you because of the way recording a screen with a camcorder works, so there’s lines on the screen. Those aren’t really there, but the the application gameplay is actually just phenomenal. I couldn’t get enough of it.
People, next to me in school, would be looking over my shoulder like what is that device? You know what are you playing that on, because that looks really cool and i had to tell them. It was a zune and their jaw, probably just dropped right onto the floor, so overall to wrap it all up if you’re looking for a device. That is a a great media experience for both high definition, music and high definition. Radio b is very sleek and portable and even pocket. Operatable and c is just an overall clean, clean lines. Device nice fancy just looks really good.
Overall, i highly highly highly highly highly recommend the zune hd. I can’t even stress enough how underrated this device has been. I can’t believe that people who call themselves geeks haven’t even heard of or haven’t even given a chance to the zune hd. It does all the little things right from the the sweet design to zoom pass to hd radio, just all the little things it just has it all together in this device, and i really really recommend it.
So i mean it’s kind of like i’ve. Just written a promo for microsoft, or some it’s like a youtube channel that has been doing work for years. It hasn’t gotten the exposure. It’S deserved.
This is definitely the type of device you want to check out. So until next time this has been mkbhd. Uh be sure to subscribe, if you haven’t already and if you want to go ahead and check out the new channel design for mkbhd, you can visit that as well until next time, mkbhd signing out peace. .