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Microsoft to debut second gen Zunes tomorrow

1 October 2007 11:04 by Andre "DVDBack23" Yoskowitz | 5 comments

Microsoft to debut second gen Zunes tomorrow According to sources within Microsoft, the company will be holding an event tomorrow to debut the new second generation line of Zune media players.

Both Bill Gates and J. Allard will be on hand for the event and the announcement should include the introduction of flash memory-based Zunes.

Although the Zune has a 10 percent share of the HDD based player segment, Microsoft hopes to take a bigger share of the more popular flash memory based segment.

Although it is not entirely known what the devices will look like, we do know the HDD-based Zune second gens will look the same as its first gen brother but be noticeably slimmer. The flash based players are said to look like the iPod Nano but with included Wi-Fi and higher storage capacity.

Microsoft hopes to manufacture 2.5 million second-gen Zunes with about 2/3 being of the flash based variety.

The players are expected to go on sale in mid-November.

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    chaos_zzz (Junior Member) 1 October 2007 13:47 Send private message to this user   
    nice the more the better
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    CKhaleel (Senior Member) 1 October 2007 13:51 Send private message to this user   
    No one is buying zunes Bill.

    Gosh Danget n00bs! Read THIS first before posting!!!
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    thegrunt (Senior Member) 1 October 2007 13:58 Send private message to this user   
    Cool,hope they look better than the nano's.Now what do I get for my birthday an ipod or a zune........
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    pcrazy99 (Member) 1 October 2007 17:03 Send private message to this user   
    I wonder if they will up the hdd capacity? A 160 gb zune would be nice.
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    borhan9 (AfterDawn Addict) 2 October 2007 23:30 Send private message to this user   
    Well i feel that it would really have to do with the extra features that the zune will have to come with.
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