when darkness turns to light, it ends tonight

the thing i love abouut updates is usally the addition of new features. the i love about new few features would bhave to be playing with them. i am a gadget pr0n junkie no doubt. so in the last twenty-four hours i have spent a great deal of time poking around with the new features that have been added to my small zune world.

unlike the iPod, all of the zune's updates thus far do not require the purchase of an entirely new unit. although, i will say that the release of major updates are often accompanied by the release of a new zune generation as well. which, omigawd, can i just say i am all too excited about. 120gb harddrive, a sleek metallic finish, but sadly only comes in black. so i will hold out for the newer finishes for the larger size before i upgrade. what will i do with the old zune.... that is a tuffie. i will either ebay it for extra money for the upgrade, or give it to a homeless man with ashy elbows.

so more about the awesome update. the most exciting thing would have to be the addition of the marketplace on the unit itself. for people who already have the unlimited access of the zune pass, this gives the ability of downloading music anywhere there is a wifi hotspot. oh yeah, the wifi capabilities have also received an upgrade too. not only can you now connect to you home network for the purpose of wirelessly syncing your zune. now you can jump on any free wifi anywhere! granted, you cannot sync your zune to pc from just anywhere. so it is not truely location free, but still that is pretty fantastic. top that off with radio tags and i think you have a win.

the nice things about the radio tags would be the elimination of trying to remember a song for later download. with the ability to identify songs, already built in to the zune fm capabilities, the zune can now tag the song on rtd and rt friendly radio stations. it then drops them in a cart for later purchase. if you have the zune pass most of these songs will automatically be free. for those of you with a zune pass, you also know what i mean by "most" -- i am glaring ominously at you disney. then when you are at home, or come to a wifi hotspot you simply open your cart and download them on to the unit. this also works with the available friend share option.

will there be a zune phone in the future. i really hope not. it would seem like such a colossal waste of time and effort. looking at the iPhones, for all the fanatical mayhem and hype surrounding them, the idea is ver poorly thought out. they limit the the mp3 qualities to make room for a phone. now if this advent had come after the first iPod i would have been like, "wow, amazing, this is incredible!" however, the iPod as gone through umpteen generations and no vast improvements have been made. if they did make a zune phone, henceforth i am calling it the zhone. the h does not have to be there, but i want it to be. at any rate, the zhone should need to be a mp3 device first, and a calling aperature second. i do not even know if i used that word correclty. i am faily certain i did not. a slide out qwerty keyboard would be fantastic. especially to compliment the in zune marketplace access. i suppose if there was internet access, i would have to give the iPod its due, the browser is fantastic. anything less than that on a competing phone would be substandard. one last thing, if you are going to have toouch screen capabilites. for the love of gawd and all that is holie, include the stylus functionality. not all of us have tiny girl fingers like that ass hat steve jobs.

p.s. -- a special note to bill gates, stop making those ftw commercials where you paraded around in orange makeup over yout pastey complexion with jerry seinfeld. i am pretty sure people don't know what you're trying to advertise. have you been taking notes from sony?