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Zune 80 to come in red in time for Valentine's Day

By Ed Oswald, BetaNews

January 15, 2008, 12:57 PM

In what it calls a response to the "consumer excitement" for the Zune 80, Microsoft said Tuesday that it will ship a red colored model in time for Valentine's Day.

Along with the debut of the red Zune, Microsoft also has made available 20 different Valentine's Day themed engraving options through its Zune Originals program. The company will also offer special playlists for the holiday through its online store.

Among the playlists to be offered include "Hip Hop Valentine," "80's Love," "Broken Love," and a Barry White themed playlist appropriately titled "Talk to Me, Barry."

The artist collectives featured in the Valentine's Day artwork include Colorblok, Friends With You, PSYOP and Studio Play Pretend, and will be available exclusively through the Zune Originals program until February 14.

In addition, the company will take out the task of wrapping the gift, offering that service for free for a limited time.

Microsoft said the player will be available immediately at a street price of $249. There would be no change to the Zune 4 and 8GB models as the device was already available in red.

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By monkeyboyx

posted Jan 16, 2008 - 8:51 AM

Got my Zune a few months ego and it kicks ass. Take it whereever I go, plug in the car, listen to it at work, school. Also got a smart phone and cary both on me. Now if my Zune was also a phone and do most of the features of my smartphone, email, sms, web then we have a wining combination. Having a smartphone pass as a MP3 is just not going to work. Anyway thats what I think.

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By foxfyre

posted Jan 15, 2008 - 6:07 PM

Red. Pink. Whatever....

So this is what the competition thinks constitutes innovation...

Have they considered putting pictures of 'lost' kids on the back?

Swoon.

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By pitdingo2

posted Jan 15, 2008 - 2:57 PM

For Valentine's day, if you offered your significant other the choice of a M$ Zune or an iPod, which would they choose?

iPod wins.

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By SGD

posted Jan 15, 2008 - 3:47 PM

iPod sucks plain and simple. Great marketing made it what is nothing else.

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By foxfyre

edited Jan 15, 2008 - 6:06 PM

Any surprise that this genius is single and living at home with his parents?

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By preinterpost

posted Jan 15, 2008 - 4:13 PM

Most girls I care for would prefer an iPod, which is sad and great at the same time - depending on perspective...

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By phenomnaruto

posted Jan 15, 2008 - 4:43 PM

Not necessarily,

Most girls, especially teenage girls like the color pink and the Zune comes in pink.

- not to mention that Zune has an easier interface to follow

and

- allows any girl to easily upload a picture of her and her loved one to the zune and make it the background of the zune, which ipods also .. cannot do.

A red Zune would make any girl happy, especially if they see a romantic engraving on the back along with a cool graphic which all ipods seem to lack at the moment.

at most the only competition is the itouch and iphone but theres nothing romantic about those.

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By SlapShot

posted Jan 15, 2008 - 1:40 PM

got my Zune 80 a few weeks ago and i am very satisfied

then my 10 year old cousin tried it out and his next words were "GET ME ONE"

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