Microsoft Unveils Second Generation Zune

An anonymous reader writes: With an immediate and more realistic goal of becoming the number two selling digital media portable Microsoft took the tarp off of two new Zune players. Both players are smaller than the original Zune, though retain much of the first gen player's looks. The Zune 80GB is the updated hard drive unit with a 3.2" display. The Zune 4GB and Zune 8GB are the new flash units that otherwise offer almost the same feature set as the Zune 80GB. This includes the ability to sync to your PC wirelessly, a feature unavailable on the iPod touch. Wireless file sharing, though loosened, is still crippled. Users can still only listen to a file they trade among themselves three times, but the three day file expiration is removed. The flash Zune units looks like decent portable against the iPod nano and classic, but the whole line seems so 'last year' against the iPod touch. The new Zune line ships in November. The Zune 80GB retails for $249 and the Zune $4GB and 8GB sell for $149 and $199 respectively. A list of new peripherals for the Zune are already listed on the Zune site.