Pink Zune officially on shelves
If you weren't one of the lucky 100,000 to grab a pink Zune at Amazon.com during the limited run back in April, you need not hold your breath any longer: the latest iteration of the player--which is swathed in pleasantly pale pink--is now officially available. You can also find the new color at Circuit City and Best Buy, if you'd rather deal with established brick-and-mortar retailers.
To commemorate the launch, Microsoft is offering a collection of pink-themed playlists--such as "Pink Rocks" and "Pink in Fashion"--in Zune Marketplace. In addition, Mandy Moore's new single "Extraordinary" is currently being offered as a free download.
By the way, if you like the butterfly backdrop shown in the picture above, you can get it for your own device. It's sized specifically for the Zune, but should work for other MP3 players that support wallpaper. Simply visit the pink Zune Web site, scroll to the section labeled "Personalize Your Zune," and right-click the image you want to save.
For more than five years, Jasmine France has covered a variety of tech products for CNET--from scanners to keyboards to GPS devices--but she's happiest where she is now: sitting atop a pile of MP3 players, "testing" every music service known to man, and jamming a variety of earbuds in every shape and color into her absurdly small ears. E-mail Jasmine. 
Zune at Amazon during the limited run back in April..."
WHAT!? How on earth does c|net figure MS sold 100,000 pink
Zunes through Amazon alone in April? That is simply not
possible! If MS could sell 100k Zunes through any single channel
in a single month, they'd be in iPod territory. The pink Zune is
not even ranked on their best sellers list among MP3 players. No
way that happened. I'd be surprised if MS has sold more than
300,000 Zunes of all colors combined to date, total.
Contrary to popular belief, Amazon sales are relatively tiny in terms of overall sales. I thought Amazon was larger, too, until I looked up the data myself.
I can not wait for Microsoft to work out the bugs in the blue paint!
- LOL!
- by Dalkorian May 3, 2007 12:18 PM PDT
- For some odd reason, it just doesn't sound healthy to be "squirting"
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(4 Comments)from your pink zune ... anymore than it did to be "squirting" from
your brown zune.
In all honesty, I'm a little surprised that this zune thing didn't go
the way of the origami already. Anyone remember that thing (gee,
it was only what - a year or so ago)?