That’s right kids — Ballmer himself whipped out the newly minted Zune HD for us during D7 and showed off a few of its finer features… including its ability to play a Pixar movie on its gorgeous OLED screen. Also of note, Steve off-handedly mentioned that the device would be shipping in a month, though we can’t confirm that that’s accurate. Anyhow, these pictures say far more than a thousand words, so just hit the gallery.
Update: Microsoft just pinged to let us know that the Zune HD is still set for a Fall release, not next month.
A few quick impressions we took away:
- The device was a pre-production model, and Steve had to boot it up — which can be seen in the shots below.
- Hardware was surprisingly thin.
- There’s what appears to be a solitary hard button below the screen.
- Interface was basically the same Zune UI with touch navigation, but very colorful and pretty snappy.
- The OLED screen looked great.
- We’ll obviously be badgering Microsoft in the coming months for a longer, closer look at the device, but at least it’s not just a render anymore.
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
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