Microsoft Teases with Dead Zune HD 64 Link
Microsoft Teases with Dead Zune HD 64 Link
Posted 03/29/2010 at 8:28am
| by Paul Lilly
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With Easter a little less than a week away, it looks like Microsoft is prepping a new Zune HD player just in time for the holiday, even if you weren't supposed to know about it.
On the Zune's homepage, Microsoft's web monkeys have added a listing for a Zune HD 64. Click on the link, however, and you won't get very far - it brings up a "page not found" error rather than a new product page for a Zune HD sporting twice the amount of storage as the current flagship model.
If we had to guess, we'd say the link will go live fairly soon, though don't expect any hardware changes beyond the bump in capacity. That's not a bad thing, as the Zune HD comes comprised of an Nvidia Tegra chipset, 3.3-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, and a pretty slick UI.
Since there hasn't been an official announcement yet, there's obviously no word on pricing. As a point of reference, however, the 32GB Zune HD runs $240.
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violian
March 29, 2010 at 2:50pm
MaxPC, I'm really sick of your Spam Filter. If you can look into it, you'll notice that the user "violian" has never posted any Spam and only legitmate content, so more than likely, I'm not a Spammer.
quickone
March 29, 2010 at 5:10pm
Agreed, if you have been a member for years with many posts and none have been reported or viewed as spam it should give you more flex room or just allow it.
The small capasity is the main reason I have not upgraded yet. I love my Zune 80 but 32 just isn't going to cut it, not if it prides itself on HD content which would fill 32 gigs very quickly
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jrocknyc
March 29, 2010 at 2:45pm
Had a Zune for 2 years, and it wasn't very good for podcasts (no univeral control, had to set up rules for each podcast -- downloaded newest, deleted played, keep most recent only -- for EVERY SINGLE PODCAST) and I regularly had audiobooks from, ahem, various sources, that played our of order, or displayed the wrong info, or didn't continue from where i left off.
For music, zune's fine. (i still use the software for managing my library even.)
For audiobooks/podcasts, my ipod touch iblows the zune out of the water.
lunchbox73
March 29, 2010 at 11:16am
Well, that's not much of a suprise. I went from the 80 GB to the 32 GB HD and have owned it for about 3 months now. I wasn't happy about the smaller capacity but once I accepted the fact I can't cram 100% of my media collection on it I don't care anymore. 32 GB is fine for me.
dethdeks
March 29, 2010 at 10:23am
could also be an april fools joke since april fools is only 3 days away
Walnut
March 29, 2010 at 4:15pm
I don't see how it would be prudent to offer your paying customers a product they've been wanting for months and then slap them with a "just kidding! APRIL FOOLS!" I'd bet someone rolled out a new version of the site after making some changes not realizing that the 64gb link had also been added since the last revision. I'd also bet that MS will be announcing the 64gb Zune HD in the near future.
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