{"id":865,"date":"2006-08-10T19:37:02","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T18:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/10\/microsoft-zune-will-hit-stores-at-299\/"},"modified":"2006-08-10T19:37:02","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T18:37:02","slug":"microsoft-zune-will-hit-stores-at-299","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/10\/microsoft-zune-will-hit-stores-at-299\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Zune Will Hit Stores at $299"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is in the process of unveiling to select retailers the first of its line of Zune wearable digital audio players and informed retailers it will offer a single unit this fall, available in three colors at a suggested retail price of $299.<\/p>\n<p>Retailers who have been briefed by Microsoft told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twice.com\/article\/CA6361350.html\">TWICE<\/a> the player will offer Wi-Fi capability, but will require that the portable be connected to a PC for the actual purchase of songs. Retailers, who claimed Microsoft remained &#8220;fuzzy&#8221; on the Zune&#8217;s wireless capability, said only that Zune will allow users to bookmark songs that may be shared via Wi-Fi, but that users cannot purchase songs on the go from the Microsoft Zune Web site.<\/p>\n<p>Both retailers said the player would incorporate a 30GB hard drive. One said the unit&#8217;s display screen would be larger than Apple&#8217;s iPod models. The retailers were pleased with Microsoft&#8217;s feature-per-price package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is in the process of unveiling to select retailers the first of its line of Zune wearable digital audio players and informed retailers it will offer a single unit this fall, available in three colors at a suggested retail price of $299. Retailers who have been briefed by Microsoft told TWICE the player will offer Wi-Fi capability, but will<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/10\/microsoft-zune-will-hit-stores-at-299\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft Zune Will Hit Stores at $299&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}