With this week’s supposedly leaked marketing images of the ZuneHD suggesting that Microsoft isn’t yet prepared to throw in the towel against Apple’s iPod Touch multimedia player, a few more teasing titbits of information about the upcoming overhaul have begun seeping forth.
Another ZuneHD picture for you to chew over. Image: WMPUser.
With tech watchers Net-wide speculating wildly about the features and functions likely to be crammed into the ZuneHD, or “Zune v4 powered by HD” as it’s reportedly referred to at Microsoft HQ, a raft of rumoured additions swinging between possible and preposterous are currently making the rounds.
Ridiculous suggestions of a 16-inch display screen aside, more viable specifications include data storage options of 16GBs and 32GBs, a multi-touch OLED screen and Web browser, HD radio, high-definition content access through Microsoft’s Zune Marketplace, and… wait for it… a mini-HDMI port for external viewing.
While thoroughly uncharacteristic by Microsoft’s standards, the Redmond-based software behemoth is remaining strangely quiet on the subject of the ZuneHD, but current chatter regarding regional launches points to an initial rollout across North America, the UK, France and a selection of other European countries towards the end of 2009.
Update: According to the seemingly well-informed folk over at WMPUser, they’ve received reliable information that the ZuneHD will arrive in September and will include a 3.6-inch OLED multi-touch screen (16:9), NVIDIA’s Tegra chip (with the Tegra 600 touted as the most likely candidate), HDMI out, Wi-Fi support, wireless synch with Zune Marketplace, and storage sizes of 4GBs, 8GBs, 16GBs, 32GBs and 120GBs.
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