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what's up guys John rettinger here with the five words I never thought I'd say I'm excited about a zune the new zune HD since I let us film my Twitter questions video when I talked about the zune more information has kind of come to light and videos of the device itself have actually been released so some of the specs it's got a 3.3 inch o LED which stands for organic LED if the screen is trying to seeing a lot of cell phones it's a brighter less battery intensive non backlit screen in this case it's a capacitive screen similar to what's found on the iphone and the t-mobile g1 it's got a 16 by 9 ratio which is very nice and a resolution of fourteen eighty by 272 so it actually is a relatively high res device oh it certainly not capable of showing HD on the device itself it is capable of 720p HD output mean if you have an HD video on it hooked up to your TV it'll come out in 720p assuming your TV can show that resolution it also has a built-in HD radio which is kind of cool HD radio is this new thing that I think the terrestrial radio sort of came out to compete with satellite radio its frequencies really in between frequencies need a special radio to be able to get them it's new programming a lot of it is very music intensive or talk intensive and less commercials it also has the zune features that you know and may love or not love Wireless that's got wireless syncing it's got the zune store on there and you can share devices wirelessly with your friends this version of the zoom zoom HD also has a dolton web browser which is based off of i hate to say it internet explorer which I am NOT a big fan I think pocket Internet Explorer is awful on windows mobile devices I'm very curious to see how it looks on the zune HD Microsoft is claiming this device will have multitouch so ability to pinch and zoom around and double tap to zoom on the web browser also it has a picture viewer with the folks rahmanir the unique turn chain to the devices you can flip through which sounds like a very very very familiar scheme that I've heard on a few other devices may have that I'm not going to mention any names microsoft hasn't come out with pricing on this yet really don't know storage capacity or any of that yet either but Microsoft is scheduled to make an announcement at this coming III which is the electronic entertainment expo which will be held next week in Los Angeles I would expect some sort of games or Xbox integration to be launched with the device possibly even some sort of App Store to launch of it and rival the ipod touch that is clearly the competitor here the zune HD actually it's a very elegant looking device I've never been a fan of the way the zooms looked but this zune HD actually looks very nice it's ditches all the old buttons and a little touch pads that they had on the previous gen device and really goes back to well i'm going to say the apple one button it's got one button in the middle and that's where you need to go back to your menu does what to be a really nice device and all these nice things I'm saying about it are fantastic but the end of the day I can't use it I can't buy a zune I can get a zune because there isn't any mac client for it so that is quite a fortunate I would expect that if Microsoft to look and get this a little more mainstream there will eventually release a mac client least I would assume so the zoom will also come with the ability to buy a zune pass meaning you can the subscription service so you can download as many songs as you want for around 15 bucks a month you can also actually keep typing 10 of those songs that you download and of course they are drm-free so this is just my quick take on the zune HD looks like a very sweet device I'm actually excited about it to see when I get my hands on it what do you think is it going to make you rethink the zune brand the zoomin aims been just drug through the dirt and it's gonna be hard for Microsoft to overcome that negative brand recognition but this is zune HD interesting it's something that maybe you'd like don't like you know what are you guys I'm very curious to hear your thoughts anyway so John render exclusive content follow me on twitter twitter.com / John for lakers and I will see you guys in the next video boy