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Zune

It's been a good while I've owned this portable music player by Microsoft (about 6-7 months) and I thought I'd give it a short review here.

I had previously been the owner of an Apple iPod, third generation, bought back in the summer of 2004 which was a good PMP although the battery life had started decaying to worthlessness within a couple of years and the device itself was all scratched to hell within a year(a mirror like metal back was never going to stay that way for very long unprotected).

Having considered buying the current iPod classic I was tempted over by the then newly released Zune due to its larger screen (the resolution is the same as the iPod though), ability to play FM radio and its wireless synching. There was a small obstacle in my path and that was Microsoft's disregard for anyone living outside the great United States; I suppose this was a safe way for them to test out their new product and its associated online marketplace before branching out too far. Ebay, naturally, solved that problem and it was in my hands all the way from Florida in 10 days or so.