Thinking about the New Zunes, the Xbox Extreme Handheld and Apple UMPC

By Rob Enderle
May 9th, 2007

It’s been kind of a quiet week as we get ready for the Halo 3 coming out party on Friday, and yes I’ll be there. Two other products that are increasingly being anticipated are the second generation Zune media players and the Xbox handheld gaming system. 

Let’s have some fun and speculate a little on what Microsoft may have in store. 

New Zune: Designed by Microsoft 

The first generation Zune was rushed to market and was largely a re-skin of an existing Toshiba offering with the addition of a WiFi radio that only worked with other Zune players. It hardly set the market, which is owned by Apple, on fire and we’ve all but forgotten about it. 

The second generation Zune, however, is slated to be vastly different. Designed from the ground up, and addressing a number ...

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