February 22, 2009

Zune sharing, can your ipod do that?

Another very cool feature Microsoft put into the Zune. Let me explain it to you.

I'm walking along the street one sunny afternoon, listening to my zune. I happen to bump into a friend of mine, and he is bursting with excitement. He found a podcast that he is dying to share with me. Both of us whip out our Zunes at this point. He goes to the podcast he wants to send to me, and clicks on the "send" option. It then scans for nearby zunes to connect to, finding and connecting to mine in the process. After the sharing process is complete, I pull it up on my zune and start playing the podcast. Mind you, there are no limits to how many times I can listen to this podcast on my zune, but it is limited if you share music. For music, you can only listen to it 3 times before it auto deletes from your zune. If you wanted to listen to the song futher, you would have to buy it from the Marketplace.

Can your IPod do that?

Filed under Microsoft, Microsoft Zune, Music, Podcasts, Zune, iPod by JacketBlack

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