Name That Zune

Microsoft's Zune will be officially launched on Tuesday, just in time for the holiday shopping season. Inside the hip Zune packaging, consumers will find a player with quality sound that costs $249 for 30 gigabytes, the same price as the 30GB iPod device. The Zune has some neat features like an FM radio, a large three-inch display screen (the iPod's is 2.5 inches) and wireless peer-to-peer file sharing that the iPod lacks. Despite all that it's no iPod killer.

"At this point, [the Zune] is not even going to give the iPod a headache. At least not in this iteration," says Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at independent technology research firm JupiterResearch.

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