A break from it all.
Posted by psych at January 31st, 2007
A break from col, people, work, lecturers.. for a day. A break from forces, gravitation, satellites, enzymes, phosphorylation, embargos, trade sanctions, North Korea, China, UN Resolutions. Its more than enough time actually. Tomorrow’s a holiday. Far from perfect timing but I love college on Fridays. It gives me time to do things like this =) Been wanting to post for such a long time. Now I’ve got no excuse not to. Theres a new blogger on the blog. *Must Steal Thunder*
*Warning*Sorry to g33k out on you and go all tech-salivaty but my life as we know it is pretty non-happening right now. Hell no. It is probably at its climax right now, but with things I think is best left inside my head. Lets just say that my life is on track finally. (The usual finger-crossing now) It sure feels right. In any case it’s never been better. Never ever. Ever ever. Haha. I’m psyched with everything at the moment. Yeah. Tech time. Its my first review so its not like I’m overdoing it or anything =p. Enjoy my selfless pimping of a great gadget which has not let me down so far.
Yep, there she is. Not the most expensive, not the most feature-rich[I’m spitballing here]. But it’s sure as hell one of the best looking mp4 players in the market. The Zune. Haha. Well nice looking but still lucks out in other areas. Freaging bright and sharp screen. It beats the Ipods screen by a whole lot of colours. Side-by-side comparisons are actually sad for Ipod. It looks seriously washed out. But I’m not gonna post any pics because I’m not here to hate on Apple. Although I do kinda hate them.
Anyway. The player’s great. Controls are ok. Spec reviews and such can be found everywhere on the net. If youre thinking of getting a player, go for this. No disappointments at all. It looks awesome. Kinda heavy. But having carried the Ipod Video, its not much of a difference.The back is scratch resistant. The newer ones come with a screen protector out of the box so no worries there. No wall charger though mostly. Something about saving costs. Hoho. Yea great way of doing that. Another sucky thing. Viewing the screen from the side is perfect. No difference. The bottom though.. wow. Not good. The black areas are also kinda pixelated if your vid isnt of good quality to begin with. Anything else looks superb. Audio is soso. I actually thought a friends Iriver [forgot which model] sounded better. Maybe I’m just a noob when it comes to equalizer settings. It’s probably the sucky earphones that come with the player tho. Well not sucky per se but earphones that come with players are almost never great. I suck at reviewing. Haha. Didnt wanna bore people with random facts about the player. Like its 30gig drive. I think I’ve used 5gigs and I have no idea what else to put in it. Many features. Themes, wallpapers etc. AN FM recorder!!. Damn awesome feature. Quality’s pretty good too.
Some random pics of mine:
The best sitcom atm The back The front
Groundbreaking stuff =p. I’m out.
pSyCh
Yes Down with the iPod! The Zune looks pretty sweet though a mite biggish. I don’t understand the iPOD’s popularity, with it being handicapped in so many ways.
Ivan
amen. zunes screen is awesome. its just lacks awesome zen functions. the zens pretty big too. thick more like. ipods thinner. ipods just a damn brand name. a brand which coppied creatives something. patent or design or something. plagiarism gets ppl jailed =p
psych
Is it ok if it’s Microsoft?
morpork
its.. ok? I have nothing against microsoft.. mainly because they are suffering enough already with software piracy etc going on. serves em right for having a monopoly and so much money. then again i think they make up for it by overcharging for their os’s.
simply put.. when it comes to the zune.. it looks good. no denying that. those highly paid designers did a good job. sexy gadget. just missing stuff. like tons of video codecs support.
psych