Vendor: DLO

This will be the first of multiple DLO product reviews in the near future, this one in particular featuring the Action Jacket case for both the flash and hard drive players. Check out these exercise oriented cases.

Features:

Neoprene case with clear window protects Zune from sweat and the elements

Total access to all Zune controls and connector port

Washable armband fits a bicep circumference of 9" to 20"

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I guess my little in car, constant use test on my Zune 80 has taken it's toll on my Zune 80 (aka BigDaddyZune). For the 3rd time in 2 weeks, my Zune's About page looks like this...

Rutroh raggy...

And the winner of the metal slider case was....

BlakeBritton!

Congratulations to Blake, and stay tuned for more contests in the near future!

Today is the day before we randomly pick the winner for the Zune 80 Metal Slider Case. Get your entry in quick as the winner will be picked tomorrow night. Contest Thread

Remember when you would visit a company and they would throw you a pen or keychain complete with their company name and phone number? That was a win/win right? I mean, you get a free pen and they have their phone number in your hand for easy retrieval. Well, I know the Zunes aren't inexpensive enough to give out to customers like a pen, but the rate at which Microsoft is cobranding Zunes kind of reminds me of this.

Is it smart to have all these special edition Zunes or do you think it cheapens the appearance of the product? I like special edition things, but only when they are indeed "Special". I eluded to my opinion on this a little in my post announcing the Gears of War II Zune yesterday. I think that they are putting too many branded Zunes out there. Hell, I can't remember them all either.

1st let me apologize for bailing on GotZune. I let some personal feelings get in the way of my passion.

It was a short, and needed hiatus. I had something happen recently that took the sails out of my enthusiasm. The event that caused it can’t be erased or fixed, but I have to move on. I am very passionate about Zune and GotZune has become a great resource for biased and unbiased Zune news and opinion. It is not fair to the readers for me to let something like what happened ruin the site. What has happened is done and I am going to move forward here. Nothing should change here. Just consider this as me taking a few weeks off. Before anyone asks, I don’t want to share what caused my hot temper to boil over out of respect for those involved, but let’s just say that I have cooled off and want to move forward.  

I do this for my love for Zune and those feelings are the only thing I am accountable to. That converts into what I do here and hopefully all the readers of GotZune appreciate what we do here. Thanks for reading everyone. Please remember, for a lot of bloggers, this is just a hobby. It will take me time to get back in full swing, but when I do, watch out.

Zune 3.0 - As promised, I did make 1 Zune post on my personal blog about 3. It was short and sweet though with no commentary. It took me 2 weeks to care enough to upgrade.

Update on the "Zune 80 Continuous Play… How long can it last?" post. I discontinued the test after 1.5 months.

Hey Drew! How is the Blue Zune 8 working for ya?

One of our readers, Blake Britton, has just contacted us with some cool photo's. He took a little trip to the apple HQ and showed his love for PC and Zune. Check it out!

Way to be Blake! If anyone else has any cool experiences, we'd love to hear! Always feel free to contact us.

Check out the "I'm a PC" photo after the break.

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To celebrate the new Zune 3 updates, were going to be doing a little case giveaway! This go around it's for the previously reviewed Chrome Metal Slider Zune 80/120 case.

The Prize:

(1) Chrome Incipio Metal Slider Case ( for zune 80/120)

The Rules:

This go around it's a tad different. For a shot at this contest you'll need to go to the GotZune.com forums, and post in this thread. When I randomly choose the winner, he/she is required to have 3+ posts.

Deadline:

October 6th 2008

       Well, it's day one of using the new zune 3 features, (firmware, software, hardware, social, etc) and i'm wondering, so far how is everyone liking it? There are quite a few subtle, and not so subtle changes that have been great to see. I'm just beginning to delve into some of this new content,  and so far the big highlights have been the updated new social pages, marketplace feature on the zune's, and most importantly, the clock! I'm quite interested in hearing all of your opinions though, were you disappointed? or do you love it?

www.zuneoriginals.net has joined in on the updates today, making the zune 16 available in any of the 5 colors (Black, Blue, Red, Green, and Pink). Both the 8 gig and 16 are available in whichever color you with, but unfortunately for anyone looking to buy a cheap 4 gigabyte blue model, your out of luck here; the soon to be discontinued zune 4 does not share in the blueness. The 120 gig is still limited to just black, hopefully we'll see a change there soon.