- Who ever listens to AM radio? Keep it out, it would just be an unnecessary extra for the Zune team to support.
- Zune software should come with device (on disc), and children should not have to have parent authentication to join the social (they should though, to access certain features that parents may restrict), since, like me, some people only want the account to subscribe to podcasts.
- Flash Zunes could be a little bigger, not a priority though.
- Keep the buttons the way they are, simple is good and dedicated controls like volume would just clog the h-interface.
- Don’t bother with tilt technology (would degrade battery performance), a ‘rotate’ feature right under ‘zoom’ for images would suffice.
- Viewing photos by tags would be cool, especially if you can view them as a tag cloud.
- To Jaxim, for saying “Fix it so I don’t have to traverse SO many subfolders to view photos. Most Photo folders should be at the root level.” This is your problem, you need to re-arrange the folder hierarchy for your photos on your computer. I had a Gigabeat S that would put any folders past 3 subfolders on the root and it was THE most annoying thing about the device.
- Using the device as an external drive would be okay, I doubt I’d use it though.
- Audio book support = waste of time. People just need to put the genre as podcast and they’re set.
- Alerts: YES YES YES!!! There are several people at my school who I see on the ‘nearby’ screen but I never see (when they’ve all got their Zunes in their pockets, how can I tell them apart from the iPod users?). Audible alerts for when people come nearby or try to send you something would be perfect, with the option to turn sounds off completely and to block just certain people.
- It would be very nice to say ‘auto-accept all incoming transfers’, as long as the ability to listen to music WHILE transferring content was introduced.
- Equipping the software to read and convert from almost any video codec (as many as VLC can would be nice).
- Document viewing would be nice. There are many times that I wish I could get e-mail, calendar, contacts, an RSS on my Zune, as well as doc, html, and other files. I don’t want a full interactive web browser, I don’t want to be able to manage or compose e-mail on the device, I just want to use it as a viewer (what it’s intended for, a media presenting device).
- Larger wifi range would kill battery performance, keep that the way it is.
- Better screen res on the big devices WOULD be nice!
- NO TOUCH SCREENS! The Zune pad is just like you have a touch screen, except that you don’t get dirty fingerprints all over the screen, and it’s matte so unlike glass touch screens it feels nice and soft under your finger.
- If the price was lowered then they would have to use lower quality hardware.
- Want a clock? GET A WATCH. The UI is very clean at the moment and doesn’t need a clock cluttering it up.
- Built in apps? No way! This device is for presenting to you your media, NOT interacting with it. Want apps? Get a blackberry.
- Removing songs from quick list would be nice (Sansa e20 series is only player I’ve seen this feature on so far.)
- Like I said before, NO web browser. It would provide unnecessary clutter.
- For those who want games: they ARE coming. And not like they are now with the XNA and the Visual C# and the compiling, that’s just for DEVELOPERS to test their games before the actual easy to use game platform comes out for everybody.
- Brown would be nice.
- KILL THE NEW DESIGN. The glossy front is way uglier than the matte one. The metal ring around the Zune Pad looked trippy and stylish. The black back is ok, but it should still be about as metallic as the silver back was, like reflective but still matte(I can’t really tell if it is this way from the photos). Also, the wifi antenna still looks ugly.
- I would love to have a more dynamic zoom feature, and the ability to zoom up to 200% on images up to 1000×1000.

1.TOUCH! Please oh please, it’s so pretty..

2 Optimize the wifi, if not web browser (which might be hard with minimal input) at least rss feeds, on the older zunes. I DO want a web browser on the new Zune.

3. Wi-fi music store: not really for the music but for the over-the-air updating of podcasts without need of computer.

4 More colours- ever hear of silver?? My laptop is black, my psp is black, my xbox is black, my Creative Zen Vision:M was black! I don’t want a black Zune!!!!! And I don’t want colours like green, blue or red because i really don’t buy into the individualist marketing approach by every tech company under the sun. Silver is still stylish.

5. Built in apps- The new Zune should come with the organizer functionality of any normal cell phone eg. stopwatch, timer, calendar, alarm, notes/to-do list, calculator

6. Games and applications built into the Zune software. It would make them much easier to synch/deploy.

7. An option to view photos in landscape or portrait (preferably an accelerometer but not necessarily)- You go to the trouble of getting a photo in 240×320 to use as a background, you go to view it and it’s all scrunched up and tiny because it’s in landscape mode! Anyone else feel my pain?

8. More durable buttons- my hold switch is getting pretty loose, and my touch pad isn’t as responsible as it used to be.

9. More information when synching. On the Zune Player you should be able to see exactly what you do when you go into status under device in the Zune software ie. Now Synching, Just Added, Just Removed. This is mainly for wireless synch.

10. I know it’s unlikely to be made but i would love a light program that you could run in the background with just a system tray icon that could download podcasts and synch them to the Zune.

Don’t require the device to reboot after you back out of XNA software.

Add the current time to the top right of every screen, nice and small, so you don’t have to navigate to the Zune Clock app, wait for it to load, and wait for it to reboot after you back out.

A way to sort/group the albums by Artist after choosing a Genre.