As I mentioned in my
post yesterday, as a Christmas present, albeit late, my sister Jehann gave me an mp3 player. Its not an IPOD. It's a Zune which is what I really wanted. Its so pretty and its in red which is my favorite color.
I don't know why but the ipod just never appealed to me hence my lack of eagerness to go and get one. But when I saw the Zune, I wanted it. I held off buying it right away since at some point it wasn't at the top of my priority. Then, as I was just planning to, Jehann said she will give it to me as a Christmas present. 
Since it would be an understatement to say that Christmas was chaotic, we never got around to getting it until last weekend. She sent me a text asking if a 4gb is fine and what color. I was at church so I wasn't able to respond right away. Next thing I know, her reply was she got the red one. Yay! Thank you Jehann!!
Why do I like thee? Well, for one thing I liked the big screen. It would be great watching a video while on the road. I liked how I don't have to convert a lot of my files because it supports a lot of formats - .wma, .mp4, .m4a, .m4b and .mp3 for audio; .wmv, and .m4v for video; and .jpg for photos. Syncing is easy. All I have to do is connect the device to the computer and drag and drop the files that I want. Best of all, the battery charges each time its connected to the computer. I have less cords to bring along. Its slim and thin and light. It looks like the nanos before they became wide but with bigger screen. I always had a problem with the pad of ipods. For some reasons it didn't cooperate with me so I am glad that the pad of the Zune is a lot less complicated and I tried it, its nice to me. I still have to try if the earphones will be as friendly. But at least that's easier to replace. It has an FM tuner too. It can also be wireless.
I came home late last night so I was planning of holding off putting files into the zune because I knew once I start I wont be able to stop and I had to sleep early. But did that happen? Not a chance. I sort of compromised okay I will just do the initial set-up, but did I follow that? Yeah right! I ended up putting some files into it that are already in my laptop and I ended up sleeping at 1 AM. Great! But I am so happy with it. I came to work and added more files. So far I have 130 songs which hardly caused a dent in the memory. I have only used 1/4 of its capacity but its a wait and see game. I still have a ton of cds at home to add. I try not to download songs online unless I really need to. I am going to go get something later to protect it. 4gb = approximately 1000 songs, 25000 pictures and up to 12 hours of video
I do feel though that my zune will be unpopular among my cousins because of what is in it. It doesn't have much of the mainstream music. It has a lot of Asian songs - OPM, Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese, and Chinese. So I am asking my friends who are into the same type of music to send those files my way.
Those that actually have lyrics they will understand are either ballads, opera and electronica - not their type of music at all which works just fine with me. I cannot wait to test it - road trip..flight..gym.
And oh yeah while setting it up, the software asked me to name my Zune.
I couldn't come up with a name so I skipped it...well for the meantime.
ETA: Another reason to like it is that the album art is shown when a song is played. If there is no image, I can always add the album art to go along with it.
name it "icho" 