Microsoft leaks Zune Details in FCC filing

cnet-declan writes "One of my colleagues at CNET News.com has picked up on a filing that Microsoft made yesterday with the FCC. Our article reports that Microsoft's Zune media player (the iPod rival discussed before on Slashdot) is going to have features such as creating mobile social networks and streaming music to nearby friends or strangers. It's going to support the 802.11b and 802.11g wireless standards, have a 30GB hard drive, support music, movies, and photos, and have a 3-inch screen. Is this finally enough to unseat Apple?"

Comments

I may want one of these after all

[nizo]

With the device's wireless networking abilities turned on, people can send and receive photos, as well as "promotional copies of songs, albums and playlists," according to the filing.

Or maybe someone can figure out how to broadcast images to all nearby Zunes with a linux app, so when I drive down the street or ride the train with my laptop I could flood all the nearby Zunes with goatse images. "Awww look someone is sending me a cute puppy picture....augggghhhhh"

Re:I may want one of these after all

[larry bagina]

Wireless. More space than a nomad. Lame.

Among other features...

[Spazntwich]

30 minutes of battery life?

Re:Among other features...

[muftak]

Hopefully you'll be able to plug a USB keyboard into it, to press ctrl-alt-del when it crashes.

Is this finally enough to unseat Apple?

[PixelPirate]

iDon't Think so..

I can just see the TV Ads..

[ackthpt]

Steve Balmer in silhouette with a glowing cord doing his monkey dance.

Re:I can just see the TV Ads..

[twofidyKidd]

As I read that, I thought it was going to end with, "...throwing chairs at silhouetted dancers with white headphones."

Hope they do well

[rolyatknarf]

My wife and I already plan on buying a pair of these. Finally we will have a way to communicate over that distance from my end of the couch to hers. No more verbal arguments about which satellite channel to watch.

Why Stop There?

[finiteSet]

Hopefully you'll be able to plug a USB keyboard into it, to press ctrl-alt-del when it crashes.

You joke, but to me, a keyboard sounds like a damn good idea.

I have a few more feature requests:

• Built-in speakers (headphones-free)
• More HD space (100GB+)
• Larger screen (say 15" or 17")
• Enough CPU and RAM to handle real world apps (maybe Turion 64x2 with 2GB RAM?)
• DVD Burner (so you can share movies you made with your Zune)
• 12-cell Lithium Ion battery so it can last more than an hour or two.

Zune has a real opportunity here. Sure, the iPod dominates the market, but I think a lot of people are frustrated with its lack of ability to author DVDs, host webservers or calculate Mersenne primes.