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Over All Rating Reviews :

I have owned several mp3 players over the past five years, and yes, none of them have been an iPod. I have used the original iPod, iPod and iPhone Touch, but have NOT owned these so wouldn't be familiar with day to day issues and hassles with those.

that said, i have to give the device the stars because it meets my criteria and didn't cost me an arm and a leg the iPhone would have. I wanted to
1) store all my music, photos and maybe a few videos. all this adds up to around 60 gigs, so ended up going with a higher capacity device.
2) wirelessly sync my collection
3) listen to the radio if / when i got bored of listening to my collection.

It does all of these things very well.

What i don't like about it (or in other words, things that prevent me from giving this device 5 stars):

1) the Zune software eats up all processor cycles when syncing. my prior media players synced with windows media player and that didn't seem to bog down the processor as much. Also, i find Zune's (pc software) interface a little confusing as i can't easily tell which song / file is being synced and how much is done. WMP seemed to have a nicer indicator per song (in sync results).

2) no side volume controls. i typically use this device in the gym. controlling the volume becomes a pain because it can only be done by the squicircle. if capacitive controls are enabled, i have to stop what i'm doing, take out the device from the arm pouch and then lower the volume. the gigabeat i owned earlier had dedicated volume buttons on the side that i could use with one hand. Same is the case with the iPhone (not the iPod Touch) and my new Palm Pre.

3) non-standard (proprietary) connector. we can thank the iPod for starting this trend and microsoft for foolishly aping it and departing from standardization. this means you need to spend extra to obtain charging cables and car adapters. Compare to the Palm Pre (as a player in this regard) that has a standard micro-usb cable. Though in all fairness, the iPod suffers from this same problem (proprietary connector) as well.

In my weighting, i discount the negatives of 2 and 3 above because i knew these before i bought the device. they would've been nice to have, but i knew going in that i wouldn't be getting these with this device, but still i do mention that in case it is a deal-breaker for others still researching and reading reviews.

Positive experiences:

1) the Zune software is simply very neat when it comes to retrieving song information! it amazed me that it got information for a lot of foreign mp3s (and several of them inconsistently id3-tagged) quickly and correctly! i was also able to very easily search for relevant artist / song and apply album information to the song in question.

2) when playing songs on PC, the Zune draws up impressive graphics and trivia about the artist / song playing. it looks very artsy and neat and the total effect i found was very pleasing.

these features impressed some of my friends who're hardcore itunes believers (though not enough to ditch their apple devices).

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