Zune HD not coming to UK

It is....sort of!

Ordered mine from BestBuy and should receive it on the 22nd-ish.

By vikarmo on 11 Sep 2009

I'm in the UK

Now they tell me?! I'm in the UK and I was already planning my life with this new toy:-

http://www.timacheson.com/Blog/2009/aug/zune_hd_po
rtable_media_player_launch_date_announced#comment4
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It seems so unfair now.

By timacheson on 11 Sep 2009

I'm in the UK

Here's the URL again, since it was truncated above:-

http://bit.ly/9Lras

By timacheson on 11 Sep 2009

Shame,

I was actually going to replace my old battered 4th? gen iPod for one.

I think Microsoft have missed a great oportunity to actually take the fight to Apple. Oh well I guess Apple will get another sale and Microsoft have gained another missed oportunity.

By JStairmand on 11 Sep 2009

Sir "Not appearing in this Film"

MS Python's Flying Circus strikes again!

It's like the American "World Series". The "world" being the USA.

Do we really care?

By cheysuli on 11 Sep 2009

My girlfriend asked me yesterday what I would like for my birthday at the end of the month... guess what I told her?

By iwilson on 11 Sep 2009

Great

I got one of these from EBay and it just arrived yesturday.

Very nice piece of kit, super fast and responsive, nice audio quality and all. It was a lil smaller than I imagined and there were ofc some problems setting up an account because its locked to the US but I got around this and have all features activated such as apps and games etc etc.

Also radio works fine in England and I have no problems with this Zune HD at all, extreamly impressed with the software also.

By SNicholls on 30 Sep 2009

UK Zuners

I've got my Zune HD 16GB from Ebay arrived yesterday, it works perfectly I had a bit of a trouble getting the Zune software 64-bit, with determination I managed to install it.
It worked very nicely, but there are some features that I expected a £160 MP3 player should have but didn't.
- an alarm clock
- navigational system
- flash player and Java plugin
- icons
- drag and drop
- websites display text and small images ONLY
- hook for a neck string (must only be placed in pockets)
- Can't make an account in your Zune software to download music.
- most importantly is that the marketplace is not available for applications (maybe if this was available at least half of the previous problems would be solved)without the marketplace you can't download music nor play games.

I can't believe am going to say this but if you're in the UK get an iPod touch even if you hate iTunes. I'll try and sell my zune, if I didn't succeed in few attempts I'll keep it.

(REMEMBER this review is only based in the UK region...might be different to the rest of Europe but I doubt that)

By MontyZune on 4 Nov 2009