A time back i purchases a Silicon Case for my Microsoft Zune 30gb. I used it for a while before placing it in my desk draw and forgetting about it. I have finally decided to dig it out and review it.

Product Details

Product Type: Zune Case / Zune Skin

Description: A Silicon skin available for the Microsoft Zune 30gb in six different colours. The skin includes a screen protector.

Pros: All Zune ports are availabe, no size is added to the Zune and its a very cheap method of preventing scratches to the device.

Cons: Will not prevent damage during a drop and also attracts dust.

This silicon Microsoft Zune Skin is available online at www.zuneone.net for only $7.95.

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My good friend Wetworker just hooked me up with this 3:28 video of Zune at the Winter X Games in 2007. Its seen before, but its great to see again, so thanks Wetworker.

It just shows Zune during the Winter X Games with lots of partying and some Zune Logos here and there, but i wont say anymore.. watch the vid:

Thanks again Wetworker for the video and dont forget to checkout his website, zunecards, which is currently in development.

Stefan, over at I Have A Zune, posted this photo of a Mysterious Zune Case today:

We’re guessing that its a 3rd Gen Zune Case or a Gaming Zune’s case (also 3rd gen we’re guessing).

From what i can infer from the photo, its looking at a rather “Fat Nano” styled shape, which i hope it isn’t as i dread to think of the responses in the Zune Forum to this. As we are just inferring, this could all be wrong, it may not even be a Zune Case, but actually an Earphone holder or an accessory holder of another sort.

Who knows… Share your views in the “Mysterious Gaming Zune Case” thread at the Dark Zune Forum.

Thats right. Our long lasting poll of “Which of these is your most favourite set of earphones?” has finally finished. The results are clear that the Zune Premium Earphones took a large majority of the votes and seem to be the most popular earphone among the Zune owners. Whether its due to their great price (which is now even lower due to the 2nd gen version earphones release), their handy case which is included or their amazing functionality.

Here are the final results:

• Zune Premium Earphones (34%, 59 Votes)
• Skull Candy (20%, 35 Votes)
• Other (14%, 24 Votes)
• Zune Included Earphones (13%, 22 Votes)
• Shure (10%, 17 Votes)
• V-Moda (6%, 10 Votes)
• Sennheiser (5%, 9 Votes)

You can clearly see that the

Wow, since i last checked people have gained thousands of plays. Checkout these stats for these non-stop crazy listeners, top songs and top artists.

Top Listeners

RocketDFS - 93,807 total plays

shaggy241 - 86,750 total plays

Coke von Cola - 64,335 total plays

Most Played Songs

1. Apologize by Timbaland

I got my Zune Premium earphones for Christmas and they are great, here is my review on them:

There is a very nice feel to the earphones, and they are very comfortable in your ears. The magnetic backing is better because they go further into each other so there is less chance of falling out like the usual ones do. The case is very nice, it means you don’t have to wrap them around your zune and screw up the earphones (like I did with my standard zune earphones) or just have them getting messed up at the bottom of your pocket.

When I first put them on, without music playing, instantly loads of sound was blocked out which is brilliant, means you don’t have to have it as loud. Lower volume, less chance of damaging ears etc, one problem though is that your voice is very muffled and sounds quite loud (to you) if you speak with the earphones in, so if you’re listening to them on a low volume you will hear your voice quite a lot, but good thing is that you won’t need to talk because you won’t hear anyone asking you anything unless they shout at you while standing next to you.

Also in-ear earphones like these don

Here is a great video showing a Zune 4/8 Test Version with the Games menu. Currently we have seen four games in this video, Alien Takeover, Hexic, Zauri and Marblets (a bubble buster type game). Games are not sendable (at this time). The games show a type of meta data or description and you can flick left and right to change game. On the new Zune devices (Zune 4, 8 and Zune 80) the touchpad can be used. Zune 30 owners are not left out though, as games will also be developed for the button interface also. The games are limited to being 2d, although have some stunning graphics and everything is very slick and flawless. The XNA Api will be available for developers to create their own games for the Zune, although this is very locked down and will probably still prohibit any further hacking (atleast we have game support now though). Music and its album art, aswell as pictures can all be intergrated into games if wanted. This could open up games such as “whats the song name” or a jigsaw of a picture or album art. You can also listen to music while inside the games. Games will also feature wireless later down the line, this will be a local wi-fi (eg. Zune to Zune - there is no Xbox or PC direct compatiblity confirmed yet), which will unlock multiplayer wi-fi games with other nearby Zuners which is a pretty sweet feature.

View the Zune XNA Games Video here.

The announcement we have all waited for since November 14th 2006 - The Zune will be given games! Microsoft GDC report that there will be games on the Zune by the end of the year!