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hey guys this is Adam Lane with Prochnow accom we're going to give you a comparison between the Zune HD and Windows Phone 7 let's check it out first up here we are in the home screens and obviously when this phone seven has a lot more going on but the Zune HD has a slightly different design and it's all music and videos and only a couple apps if I press the home button it toggles between a list and my pins that doesn't happen here but let's go into music and videos and we get a really nice panorama here with a background image of one of the artists who might have been listening to recently we got a new you got history yeah now playing and here's your menu so there's music videos podcasts radio marketplace we're just pretty similar to over here and over here are the pins and your history and your new so slightly different interface there so let's go to music again slightly different and let's go to how about let's see who we've got on here Kolbe & Kolbe there's another difference we see a bright background image here and we see the background image here is really faded back so it's less distracting you also notice you have a play button for all the album's and a plus to add it to the NAP plane and a smart DJ button which will go out to the zoom pass and kind of create its own little mix of music they may not have heard of before in the comm in combination with music on your device that you know kind of goes with Colbie Caillat so we're missing that here on Windows Phone 7 which is a shame because it's an awesome feature one warning if I I don't have 1 zoom pass assigned to both of these devices so if I stream anything and it doesn't work on the other it's probably because of that okay so there's albums I can go swipe like that and get songs again we have smart DJ button this one you can only play individual songs whereas this one I can play them all and we swipe again here's an here's another difference the Zune HD has pictures this one goes to the bio and so it's an HD pictures artists pictures pretty great and so we swipe again and there's a bio and it's the same bio but look at the Zune HD some of those are underlined so see we're talking about Billy Idol there I can click on that and go straight to Billy Idol well it's gonna connect to the Wi-Fi there we go so that's really cool we're missing that on the Windows Phone 7 and we swipe again we get related artists we swipe over here we're back to albums already there's only album's songs and bio for artists on Windows Phone 7 so in the Zune HD we got related artists so if you want to explore and discover some new music that it's kind of like Kobe we can go over here and see some recommendations so that's really awesome on the Zune HD and we have our back is top tapping the top Tech's were I'm one who's supposed to seven we gotta press the back button okay you get the album view you got the songs view and this is where you can play all the songs you got playlists you guys genres and then you're back to artists the difference I was in HD we got whoops that was miss touch we got channels which are really cool those get periodically updated automatically and then you got platelets and you got songs somewhere here and guys jhanas I'm gonna back to albums so slight difference there that album is throwing in more a grid view over here and they're still lists not sure if that's because of the number of albums I have anyway let's get back up here so the videos pretty similar I only have one video here okay let me play one here and play we hear difference here Zune HD has a 50 screen option nothing like that here but I am 50 screen and I can tap and drag to skip ahead this one no can do alright let's go back okay picture is something else let's go to marketplace okay we got we had a search bar there let's go to music so this will be the music marketplace on Windows Phone 7 we got a nice big panorama here again and we got the artists of the week is featured there you had a couple featured albums got some new releases shown up you got the top albums got a genre x' and the search is right here so you're gonna type the search button now on the Zune HD we got something really awesome got pics what that does is it looks at your music listening habits and says you know you might like Joe Nichols as well so we're gonna recommend that so you can see a few of their recommendations here and you can really easily tap on one and right away you can download any of these albums with your zoom pass let's go back and swipe you give you new releases so let's go there where we have the same new releases kind of different layout you have top songs you can choose the top rock songs that's pretty nice we don't really have a choice over here I'm gonna just one-seventh top albums again we only have you know you can choose the genres for top albums over there and then we're back to picks so let's search for somebody this should we go for I'll search for mmm so here's our search results and I am going to pick the artist you can see the difference there and here we are in the artist marketplace window you can see I already have a song in the collection on the Zune HD whereas this one doesn't have anything in collection yet I can tap the play button with my zoom paths hooked up and just listen to it right away same on the Zune HD here I've got the plus button to add to new plane and the smart DJ button which is awesome so the songs there's by others pictures we already saw this before okay so let's go I want to download the whole album so let's get books here we go we're gonna go to this one so here's where there's a difference big difference over here we got by album $12.99 I can buy you Sonic if I press the play button it's gonna stream the whole song because I have a zoom pass over here same deal well similar I press the play button it's going to stream the wholesome whole album because I was in fast but if I want to buy it it's gonna say confirm purchase and this is how much you're gonna get a charged and it's going to get charged to the mobile phone account it's not going to use my zoom past credits over here that's something you got to pay attention to I do the cart over here it's going to check out if I have a zoom pass and because I do it says download and step by so now I can just press download and it's going to download the DRM protected version of that album she says downloading on Windows Phone 7 it's a little bit different and it's hidden if you want to download it as your zoom pass you got to tap and hold and that brings up a menu add to napaloni plane by download or share so if I choose download now that's gonna download the DRM protected music see it says pending so that's how you're gonna get zoom Pass downloads on Windows Phone 7 that's a little tricky so here we're downloading that over there oh and here's your review of the album that's nice we don't have a review over here next let's look at the radio so here we go for both devices you need the headphones plugged in in order to use the antenna over here we've got HD support let's see if we can get to the same channel over here and we've got the name of our station you can add it to favorites using that button and here we are it's working over here too you can add to favorites you can pause let's see if we can get some music we got the name of the show and okay here we go cook it cook it of Montreal and look at this button we got an Add to Cart button so when this is recognizing the name of the song you can add it to current and then when you go to your cart you can download that song off of zoom this is a really awesome feature you see it's not here on Windows Phone 7 and lastly next rather we got the social on the Zune HD but you can really easily listen to some of the music your friends like so we can see what's recent my favorites okay there's nothing like that on Windows Phone 7 however if you get to the Marketplace on Windows Phone 7 you can tap and hold the name and then choose share and then you can email it to a friend and that'll give them a zoom link you can also do it for individual songs so that's pretty much it for the differences between Windows Phone 7 zoom and the Zune HD of course you also have you know the phone that's gonna have speakers this one has to have headphones this one doesn't have a removal battery so there's lots of hardware differences but that's a quick overview of the software differences between the Zune HD and the Windows Phone 7 that's it for now