Wednesday, 13 May 2009

Killer feature for any mobile device (Zune take note)

So, it turns out the rumours from the twitter account were fake – there may not be any new Zune coming in June. However, we won’t know till we know.

Sadder is the news from WSJ that the motion camera for XBOX won’t be shipping for at least another year.  This is unfortunate and makes me wonder what’s in the pipeline, as rumour has it that the device was pretty much fully functional when MS bought the technology.

But back the original topic. There is a new Zune coming, we just don’t know exactly when yet. @Volvoshine has been talking about new features, and one in particular that has other manufacturers stumped.  Question is, could it be instant on?

The most annoying thing  about any mobile device, but especially music players, is the fact that there’s a boot time. This really sucks. It sucks enough that I go back to good old FM quite often. Nice thing about FM, you press the button, you have music, INSTANTLY. If someone can pull that off with a device I’d buy three – or more.

Being able to get music without the annoying 15 sec delay would really be awesome.

But – unfortunately I don’t own a device company, so cannot build one myself and have to wait for someone else to realise this would kick ass…

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