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  It’s uneasy to digest the fact that Microsoft is happy and knows that someone from their own organization leaks information about their high-profile upcoming product. This apparently is the case with a MS software engineer who has been leaking Zune HD related info. Neowin interviewed this guy and even though the interview is uninteresting, [...]

  Microsoft is shy to share the full details of Zune HD, which leaves us to believe the rumors who in every few days share some juicy facts about the promising PMP. Here’s a new one again throwing some light on its release date and the supposed storage. The early report claimed a September 5 [...]

  It was rumored for a long time and even semi-confirmed by a Nvidia employee recently but it was not acknowledged by Microsoft until now. In an official Zune Insider podcast, Matt Akers, the show host and the product team member confirmed that Nvidia’s Tegra is indeed the multimedia brain behind Zune HD who thinks [...]

  We have been hearing Tegra powering Zune HD before but nothing was confirmed – until now. PC Perspective’s reporter got hold off an Nvidia employee who claimed that Zune HD indeed houses Nvidia’s wonder SoC. Of course, it’s nothing close to official but at least this claim holds more weight than the wild rumors [...]

  Microsoft insists on a fall release for the Zune HD without revealing the date but it looks like Paul Thurrott from Winsupersite have spilled the beans. He claims September 5 as the shipping date, which if we recall is the same month rumored before for the US as well as the international release. [Via [...]

  Being one of the best technology blogs in the world, do have some perks. At the D7 conference, Engadget managed to convince Ballmer to show them the recently announced Zune HD and even pose with it. For now, there’s nothing much to tell except to ogle its lovely OLED screen. Maybe there is, it’s [...]

  After a series of leaks, Microsoft has officially acknowledged its next-gen Zune player. Though the full specs of the Zune HD are not out yet, the things confirmed are almost accurate to the rumored specs. It has a 3.3-inch 16:9 OLED (480×272) multitouch display, HD Radio, HD Video-out with the help of an AV [...]

  Here is something more to feed if you haven’t had enough of the Zune-ness lately. According to a Microsoft source, Zune HD will be released in September and Amazon will be shipping out the first next gen Zunes in the same month. There’s not much to prove it right except that the month aligns [...]

  So Gizmodo received this image today claiming to be Zune 3rd and for some good reasons, it is now termed as fake. Jared Marino from Zunited had a good look over the image and this is what he had to say. “I can say beyond a shadows of a doubt that this image is [...]

  More Zune HD details continue to trickle out. The insider sources of Neowin blurt out the specifications that puts a few rights and wrongs against yesterday’s leaked specs. The confirmed things that the new Zune HD will have are: – 3.6-inch OLED full touch screen – NVIDIA Tegra powered – 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB [...]

  Just after the marketing materials were leaked last week, we have got a press picture showing Zune HD in full glory. Boy, it does look beautiful with brush aluminum finish at the back aand very 1G iPhone-ish. Nonetheless, WMPoweruser, who received this picture has also slipped few details about the PMP. There will be [...]

  Things are going pretty interesting in the Zune labs. The promised Zune hardware has surfaced out of the marketing materials, calling itself as Zune HD and will mostly make a global presence. There are no other details as of now but the picture jibes with Neowin’s description of “sleek and with no D-pad”. It [...]