After lots of quality time groping the Zune like blind man on his wedding night , our people give us the lowdown on the actor ’s functionality . Get the easy lay after the parachuting !
First off , that whorl wheel you see ? That ’s not a roulette wheel . It ’s just four push put in a wheel formation . That kinda sucks if you ’re used to the curl roulette wheel , but it seems their engineer were n’t too affectionate of it , or Microsoft did n’t need to be accused of copying the iPod ’s wheel . Either way , it ’s just four buttons .
But like the wheel , the scrolling speeds up the longer you hold down the button . When you ’re scrolling through songs , there ’s a large letter that appear in the recess corresponding to the alphabetic character of the current song when you ’re running through your leaning . It ’s very similar to the way Windows Media Center works when you ’re scroll , if you ’re conversant with that user interface . In fact , the whole user interface is quite like MCE 2005 , with the semi - cobwebby fonts and GUI design .
On the back , there ’s a adhesive friction so you could bear the instrumentalist when you ’re watching telecasting in landscape painting mood . There ’s also some kind of magnetic feature of speech on the back so you may bind the headphones to it . The attractor could be used for some sort of docking or example design — they’re still work on on that . The bottom has that iPod - like dock connector , while the case itself is plastic and semi - transparent .
The UI itself has white text on colorful backgrounds , with lots of textures . This could even be skinnable . While the song is recreate , it will display album art or a Windows Media Player - like visual image .
FM financial backing is fairly complete , with both an FM piano tuner and an FM transmitter so you may broadcast the music to your car . The FM sender also feeds up Song and Artist information so you may see what ’s dally from your car stereophony ( if it supports that feature of speech , like in GM cars ) . Pretty swell .
Two menu options that were disabled were the WiFi , and Capture options . We ’re not certain what the Capture configurations entail — maybe recording FM?—but we ’ll lease you make love .
Microsoft
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