Apparently the reports of the Microsoft Zune HD’s demise have been greatly a tiny bit exaggerated premature. The Zune HD is Microsoft’s portable media player with a touchscreen display and first generation NVIDIA Tegra processor. It’s been on the market since 2009 and the Windows Phone 7 user interface (and especially the music and video apps) were […]
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RIP Zune HD (2009 – 2011)
Microsoft’s Zune HD portable media player has been on life support for a while… now the company has officially pulled the plug. A page on the Zune support website states that Microsoft will no longer be making Zune players, and will instead focus on Windows Phone. Update: Microsoft says the Zune HD isn’t dead yet… […]
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Microsoft Zune is not long for this world
While NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 chip is powering almost every new Android tablet set to launch in the next few months, the Tegra platform has actually been around for a few years. The first big name device to ship with a first generation Tegra chip? The Microsoft Zune HD… the little portable media player that couldn’t […]
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Zune HD hackers launch development kit, homebrew apps about to get awesome
The Zune HD is an interesting device. On the one hand it’s got a slick user interface, a speedy processor, and a high quality OLED display, which make it a rather attractive alternative to the iPod touch. On the other hand, there are virtually no third party apps for the Zune HD, which means that […]
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Zune HD 4.5 firmware now available
Microsoft has rolled out the latest version of its Zune HD firmware. That means you can updated your mobile media player to add support for Smart DJ playlists, additional video codecs including Xvid, and the ability to browser the Zune Marketplace music store while your Zune HD is docked and connected to an external display. […]
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Xvid support coming to Zune HD
The Zune HD is a pretty awesome piece of hardware, and the portable media player has an attractive user interface to boot. But when I recently reviewed the Zune HD, two of my biggest complaints were software-related. First, for the most part, what you see is what you get. There are very few apps available […]
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Brad’s travel tech
Some of you may have noticed I’ve been a bit quieter than usual over the past two weeks. That’s because I was visiting family in New Zealand. In case you were wondering, traveling from Philadelphia to New Zealand takes an awfully long time — about 25-30 hours one way. But thanks to a good book […]
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Liliputing Holiday Giveaway: 16GB Zune HD
Been entering the Liliputing contests for the past two weeks and still haven’t won anything yet? Don’t worry we’ve got one more big prize to giveaway: a slightly used Zune HD portable media player. NVIDIA sent me this Zune HD to review recently so I could check out the first consumer electronics device to use […]
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Microsoft offers free 3D games for Zune HD
I’ve been using the Zune HD that NVIDIA sent me for the last few days, and I’ve come to a few conclusions so far: From a hardware standpoint, this thing is (mostly) awesome. It gets excellent battery life with good audio quality and the ability to handle HD video The screen is too small. Sure, […]
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Day two with the Zune HD (software overview) – Video
I’ve had a bit more time to play with that Zune HD that I unboxed yesterday, and I think I’m going to have a love/mild annoyance relationship with this media player going forward. Here’s what I’ve noticed so far after using the Zune HD for about a day: Pros: The user interface is incredibly slick […]