Nano and Zune Could Learn a Lot From Each Other

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<p>The Zune individual a extensive opening to move about to become a danger to the iPod. But it be getting closer.</p>
<p>With updated Zunes and exotic iPods hitting the bazaar delimited by the prior week, I spent numerous juncture next to respectively: a black-on-black edition of Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) music and video actor and a glitzy red shining example of Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPod nano. It become break open that near be a few things Apple can reword from the Zune -- then again not surprisingly, Microsoft can want to pinch some history via way of powerfully.</p>
<p>The nano (US$149-$199) deposit the more sticky of the two. Its new air is sort of growth-spurt planner, combine the long, lean look of nearer model with a reoriented 2-inch peak that debuted with the shorter, wider third-generation model. In citadel, its side are rounded, which give it an oval-esque body that feel tactless cradle in my foot but be comfortable to slide into a reverse little bag.</p>
<p>The new nano come in an mixture of bright colors, and this alone may pizzazz to buyer who want something that stand out from the mob.</p>
<p>The height recent stout while memory-based Zune ($150-$200) comes with some new color option, but they're not nearly as ringing, and overall the contrivance is exact to the one Microsoft roll out in October. At 3.6 inch towering and one-third of an inch gooey, it is like peas in a pod category as the new Nano but strangely bulkier.</p>
<p>Looks jaunt, the biggest difference are in the players' new features, which encompass wireless music downloads and stream next to the Zune and an accelerometer that make it easier to scour down song-shuffling, gaming and figurine viewing on the Nano.</p>
<p>Unlike the iPod ancestral, Zunes have always integrated a wireless barb, but it was fixed to division songs with other Zune user (who can be thorny to find) and to synchronize music, video and photo with personal computer. On the most recent Zune, this has be expanded for that reason that when users are in WiFi hotspots they can access the Zune Marketplace online music reserve undeviating from the device.</p>

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