The only thing I've heard so far is that it's supposed to be wireless or something like that.
2006-07-19 07:41:05 · 6 answers · asked by Courtney 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Music & Music Players
I have. It's called the Zune, will hold 30GB, and will cost $400. Go to the links for more info.
2006-07-19 11:08:39 · answer #1 · answered by perfectionist_tn 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We at the Mac community follow this very closely, and I can say that the current designs are sort of like an ugly iPod. The "Argo porject" is said to have a special Wireless communication (not WiFi like, but not standard, so not open) it would be branded under the XBox name, and probably integrate with Vista (MCE possibly) and the XBox, with Urge and Windows Media Player. It will be the first end-to-end model Microsoft releases in this area, who previously provided software for 3th party developers. We can expect all the normal functions, with video, and maybe some overrated extras like FM tuner, microphone (come on, who really uses this?)
The Wireless could serve to sync, buy music wirelessly, share music with others (kinda like hosting a local radio station, I guess)
About the killfactor: if it is released as Microsoft product, we won't really have to fear (I can only imagine the horrors of interface and BSOD's on it)
BUT the XBox departement is quite different than the rest of the company, so maybe we will have to watch out.
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST
Microsoft has billions at its disposal, so it could well be they sell their Argo under their costs, thus becoming much cheaper than the iPod, hugely undercutting the price and gaining marketshare, until they have enough to dictate prices, and making a comfortable profit.
2006-07-19 15:04:35 · answer #2 · answered by Jonathan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MP3 audio was designed as the audio accompaniment to mpeg video, therefore a compromise from the start. WMA was designed as a audio compression format from the ground up. It is superior to MP3 in both compression and sound quality. On major flaw that Apple made when designing the iPod was not allowing it to play WMA files. I can guarantee that whatever Microsoft comes up with it won't be compatible with iTunes but there are giant holes in iTunes anyways (no Beatles, Radiohead, etc). With the resources Microsoft has, whatever music service it comes up with will blow iTunes away. A little competition will only make both competitors better.
2006-07-19 17:57:50 · answer #3 · answered by mrknositall 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't, but it probably won't be good. If it uses wma, then I'm sure it won't be, that's not a very good music format. And if it's wireless, it might be slow to transfer, especially if it uses bluetooth. There was some horrible digital camera that used bluetooth, but was incredibly slow to transfer files.
2006-07-19 14:46:21 · answer #4 · answered by Jeff 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dude jeff ur a jackass wma sounds better than mp3 when encoded at 192 kbps vs mp3 192 kbps it really does sound better also u never know microsoft may win
2006-07-19 16:10:11 · answer #5 · answered by kickenchicken360 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no i ha vent
2006-07-19 14:49:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋