iPod touch jhacker “Martyn” obtained a broken iPod touch, and was planning to dive in and download every bit of code on it in the increasingly complicated effort to put 3rd party applications on the iPod touch. He didn’t plan to release the code to the public, but he did plan to upload the code to a secured area of his site.
He had his iMac replaced 2 and had a problem with the third. He decided to email Steve Jobs because of this and he gets a free iPod.
The new Zunes are official so let’s get to it: a spec-by-spec scrap between Redmond’s new Zunes and Cupertino’s formidable iPod foe.
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We love a good non-mystery around here, and Microsoft’s new Zunes are about as un-mysterious as they get. But we also love a good product refresh, and now that the cat’s officially out of the bag we can really dig into the new Zunes, which definitely have a lot going for them. There’s plenty to cover, so here’s what you need to know.
“The Social” turned out to be somewhat anti-social for Microsoft’s Zune, but a recently unearthed patent filing describes a social interaction system that could connect friends wirelessly and automate downloads based on behavior.
Well, we’d heard new Zunes were coming tomorrow (or maybe October 16th) and it looks like retailers are starting to receive display units — everyone, say hello to the new Zunes. Barring some Photoshop trickeration, it looks like we’re getting two flash models and a slimmed-down hard drive edition.
Confirmed by two sources, the first shots of the 80GB Zune 2 and the Zune Flash (4 and 8GB). What’s up with that funky controller?
Here it is, direct from a trusted source close to the situation — a Zune 1 running firmware 2.1, which will bring all the Zune 2 software goodies and UI tweaks with it when those bad boys are announced on Wednesday. Microsoft will be making the Zune 2 announcement on Wednesday.
The next-generation Zune has just been announced, coming at you with a price tag (which we already saw) of $249 for the 80GB hard drive model and $149/$199 for the 4GB and 8GB flash-based models respectively.
