The new Zen Touch: 24 hours battery life...

[Asher]

Another thing that should be mentioned: The Zens come with a user-removable battery. That means it's possible to buy secondary batteries for long trips, or replace it later when the battery doesn't hold its charge as long as it used to. As you may recall, this is a bigissue with the iPod these days...

[Asher]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
That's a BAM. Pardon me for ignoring things that aren't actually true...

You can't honestly look at the overwhelming trend, the increased number of big-name competitors, and the slim lead Apple had the last time the market was surveyed and still think the iTunes Music Store is going to stay #1 for the forseeable future. Either way, it doesn't matter. How important is it if the #1 has a minority of marketshare, which is declining?

The iTMS has features unique to it that some people like.

Name them...

[Drake Tungsten]

I'd love to continue this, but I have to take a shower and break out. Nothing but love for ya, Glonkie; I hope you sell some Zens today...

[Asher]

This whole "iTunes is #1" thing is nonsense, anyway.

The market for downloadable music can be looked at as follows:
1. Apple proprietary
2. WMA

Apple proprietary (iTunes) has 35%, while WMA has 65%. That's the important figure, since it doesn't matter which store you buy from when you're looking at the player...

[Adagio]

Originally posted by ADG
When is this set to be released?

*Bump*


I still haven't seen the release date anywhere

[Adagio]

It's now avaliable for pre-order on amazon.com, but they don't mention the date

[Az]

Ever seen a Creative commercial on TV?

No I haven't... wait, that's the point, isn't it?!


Creative's marketing department is either TEH SUXX0R, or inexistant ( For their sake, I hope it's the later, since the former means a loss of money )

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Unbiased observers point of view?

I hate to disappoint the Drake of Bukkake Bay, but I think the apple's just been pissed all over.

[Drake Tungsten]

Time will tell. Creative better get these new players out quick if they want to piss all over Apple, though; it looks like new iPods with 60GB of hard drive space are coming around September.

[Adagio]

I just found this:

http://www.creative.com/corporate/pressrelease/welcome.asp?section=7thjun

The new Creative Zen Touch 20GB, available today for preorder online at Amazon.com and www.creative.com for $US269.99, is slated for shipment this month.

[Adagio]

How many here have pre-ordered it (or is about to), or are considering buying it shortly after release?

I haven't preordered it because I hope to get it from some shop closer, like Amazon.co.uk or maybe even a local shop... but only if they have it at the same price, and gets it ASAP...
At present time I'm 95% sure that I'm going to buy this...

[Asher]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Time will tell. Creative better get these new players out quick if they want to piss all over Apple, though; it looks like new iPods with 60GB of hard drive space are coming around September.

Seeing as the iPod and the Zen use the same harddrive, that would be coming soon to the Zen, too.

IGN speculates, based on Creative's history, that 40GB and 60GB versions will be quietly launched a few weeks after this one starts shipping, in a few weeks.

Looking at the price difference, I don't think it's important that Apple will have a 60GB version. It'll probably cost $999...

[Imran Siddiqui]

But the STYLE, Asher! The STYLE!

[Dinner]

The new Zen Touch: 24 hours battery life...

I thought this thread was going to be about some sort of new age vibrator.

[Q Classic]

the biggest question in my mind is this: does it, if it already has music on the player, connect it to a computer with no music, erase the entire damn player like the ipod?