Zune vs iPod

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:42:41 +0000

iPod has dominated the mobile market for decades, well about five years, and Microsoft has jumped into a world ruled by Apple so Zune would have to offer free popcorn and reclining seats to compete. The iPod with its latest version being 5G, can handle photos, music, podcasts, video and any file type in its portable-hard-drive mode. Zune does the basics also but offers a larger screen, built in WiFi for sharing files and a FM radio tuner. Although the tuner is not a big deal, it is one thing the iPod doesn’t have. Screens compare as 3-inch diagonal of Zune to 2.5 on iPOd and that half inch can be a big deal when watching a movie. Horizontal video orientation is an advantage Microsoft took so you can turn the device 90 degrees while movie watching to optimize the wide aspect ratio. Falling short on utility is the built-in WiFi. If you are within 30 FT of another Zune player you can send a file and that’s it. Zune also does not use the wireless connection to computers and so it does not sync. Under the digital rights management restrictions, any podcast or song that your send to another Zune will disappear after three plays or in three days, whichever comes first. This is part of the DRM architecture of the Zune. Different files have different restrictions so the rules and not quickly understood which leaves you with finding them out as you go along.

Touch screen

admin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:47:34 +0000

A typical PDA, at this time, offers touch screen for data entering, but there is more to this little wonder than meets the eye. They also have a memory card slot for the storage of data alone with one or more of the following: a directional pad and either the numeric keypad or a thumb keyboard for input using softkeys, IrDA, Bluetooth and/or WiFi. However, many PDAs (typically those used primarily as telephones) may not have a touch screen. Having only a few buttons which are usually reserved for shortcuts to often used programs, most of the original PDAs, such as the Apple Newton and Palm Pilot, featured touchscreen for user interaction. Including Window Mobile devices, PDAs with touch screens, will often have a detachable stylus. This interaction using the stylus is done by tapping on the screen to make menu choices and to activate buttons. Highlighting can also be done by dragging the stylus and text can be done in four different ways. The virtual keyboard is one way, the chorded keyboard or external keyboard that is connected by Bluetooth, IR or USB is another. Letter or word recognition can also be used where the touch screen is used to write letters or words and stroke recognition. Graffiti is a Palm implementation where predefined set of strokes will represent a number of characters used in input.

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Zune vs iPod

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