Is this THE iPod killer?
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are looking at the Zune HD (or so the internet tells us). Going by the images, it has loads of that oomph factor but the fact remains that its specs are unknown. However likely features are a HD screen (If you have a sane IQ you have figured this out already), An accelerometer (Quite evident by the picture) and since there seems to be only 1 button, its likely to be a touchscreen.
It will be intresting to know what is the kind of software inside, the price and the capacity of this thing-all of this decides if this thing turns out to be the much awaited iPod killer. According to me, this thing beats the iPod touch hands-down when it comes to looks and a HD screen will simply be a super bonus. Many iPod owners are also disgruntled with Apple’s policy of charging $10-20 for every software upgrade (Downright cheap in my opinion) and are looking for the switch. The industry might be on the threshold of a dynamic change in the PMP market.
PS: There has been much speculation over the Zune in recent days, something totally different.
Things are suddenly hotting up in the rather obscure field of electronic books and their associated reading devices, the best known of which is Amazon’s Kindle. A new, sleeker version of the Kindle was unveiled on February 9th. Just days earlier, Google said it was making 1.5m free e-books available in a format suitable for smart-phones, such as Apple’s iPhone and handsets powered by Google’s Android software. Amazon said it was working to make e-books available on smart-phones as well as the Kindle. Plastic Logic, the maker of a forthcoming e-reader device, saesyid it had struck distribution deals with several magazines and newspapers. The iPhone, meanwhile, has quietly become the most widely used e-book reader: more people have downloaded e-book software (such as Stanza, eReader and Classics) for iPhones than have bought Kindles. Might e-books be approaching the moment of take-off, akin to Apple’s launch of the iTunes store in 2003, which created a new market for legal music downloads? 
