Engadget tried, but still don’t like Zune

Posted by Chris Leckness on 11/18/07

I know Ryan Block personally and I know that he is normally quite fair with his opinions. His initial take on Zune 2 upset me and I thought he had not given it a fair shake. I wasn't the only one, lots of folks flogged him for his assessment. He promised to give it another whirl and he did.

So as we said before: same place, same time in late 2008? Bring your A-game, Zune, and we'll be ready.

I am not surprised. This time Ryan goes through all the features with a better description of why or why not he liked the features.

Read his review here...

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10 Responses for "Engadget tried, but still don’t like Zune"

Noble November 18th, 2007 at 4:14 pm 1
I agree with his assement of the wifi, but I dont agree about the games. I never thought games on the IPOD were really all great to have.
Jaxim November 18th, 2007 at 4:57 pm 2
At least you can actually call this review a review. The first
“review” was definitely not a review. I agree with some of his conclusions, but I think the Zune has some great potential. If the Zune team doesn’t just sit on their butts and listens to the community and makes some tweaks to the firmware and software, then we’ll be seeing a player that will be really awesome.
XCG3 November 18th, 2007 at 5:27 pm 3
yeah, hopefully they release newer firmware updates that really makes it rock.
Chris November 18th, 2007 at 5:43 pm 4
All that matters is what cnet thinks they are the ones that really make the reviews that count
vaibhavk November 18th, 2007 at 7:48 pm 5
Hell even Leo Laporte likes it. If any of you remember he made a lot of fun of Zune 1. Check this video out it is really funny especially the squirting part

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZXiLY4bo80

He recently had a podcast on Zune and he really liked the new Zune

http://twit.tv/ww40
Noble November 19th, 2007 at 7:37 am 6
Sansa has had similar early firmware issues. Check out he sansa messages to see all of the complaints about the new Sansa View.
Vuurflits November 19th, 2007 at 9:21 am 7
if you want a mobile device to play games you’ll buy an ds or psp not a digital media player.
Rikostan November 19th, 2007 at 7:54 pm 8
I agree with the part about this review seeming to be a little better thought/written out than the first one. Some of his concerns are solid, but I did not get a Zune to replace my PPC in the PIM and game department. I got it strictly to play music. I would rather have a device that does one or two things great rather than ten things just “OK”.
Noble November 19th, 2007 at 9:26 pm 9
He was fair in his review. Zune might not be for everybody.
Antonio November 24th, 2007 at 11:42 pm 10
I think i’ll listen to Leo and Kevin Rose before i listen to Ryan