Microsoft Zune - available on November 14th for $249
Writen by walking leaf on Thursday, 28 of September , 2006 at 9:43 am, ,
Microsoft has revealed the price and date of the Zune, the new portable music player.
It would appear that the price tag of $249.99 (£132) would tempt consumers away from Apple and the extremely popular iPod. But for each Zune sold, Microsoft will lose money on it…
The device will be launched initially in the US market on November 14th. As for purchasing tracks via the online store - Zune Marketplace - it will cost 99 cents or 79 Microsoft points.
In addition, there is a range of accessories for the Zune available to buy on launch day. These are:
• Zune Home A/V Pack ($100 - dock, remote, AV cables, extra battery, sync cable, adapter)
• Zune Travel Pack ($100 - Dual Connect remote, premium headphones, bag, cable, and adapter)
• Zune Car Pack ($80 - FM tuner, car charger)
• AV cable ($20)
• AC adapter ($30)
• Sync cable ($20)
• Car charger ($24)
• Dock (with AV output, but no AV cable for $40)
• Wireless remote (for control of Zune dock, $30)
• Dual Connect remote (for inline control and splitting the audio out for two people, $30)
• Zune FM Tuner (with autoseek, which finds the optimal radio station and, at $70),
• Gear bag (contains all these expensive accessories, itself $30)
• Premium earphones (sound isolating canal phones for $40)
The Zune will also feature a various amount of preloaded content from such bands as CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy), Band of Horses, The Rakes, The Thermals, etc. Plus videos from Serena-Maneesh and The Fruit Bats.
Microsoft is planning to spend hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of the next several years in a bid to catch Apple’s iPod. Good luck to them.
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