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Disagree strongly with ZunePhone as a name. People who've actually owned a Zune seem to quite like them, but the general buzz is pretty negative (a bit like Vista?)

WP7 isn't great, but it doesn't have the negative connotations 'Zune' has. It may remind people of Windows Mobile 6 however, but I think so many years have passed that most of us have been able to repress those memories

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I don't remember why Zune has a bad name, but I suppose the early models weren't as good. The 2nd gen Zune that I owned was a great mp3-player, definitely up to par to the iPod. And if WP7 has a Zune-player built in then that is a selling point.

Zune has a bad name because it sold poorly. Even from day 1 it was a good MP3 player. But it got a name as being an MS device that sold poorly compared to the iPod. It was a market failure, but for people that used it was/is a great device.

It's the Amiga (in the 80s) of MP3 players.

The Zune's a fine device, but in the end it's just another mp3 player. The Amiga was something special

It didn’t help that Zune was released in — pardon me — _poop brown._

...and had a feature called "squirting".

I have a 1st gen Zune (black, not brown), and I think it's great. It doesn't have some of the flashy stuff or a touch screen like the newer models have, but it's never crashed on me. It's solid. I've dropped this thing a bunch of times (sometimes the "drop" was a bit more of a launch across the room, whoops) and it's not even scratched. Plus MS still supports it with almost all the new features, like Zune Pass--which is currently my favorite music service. (I wish the channels were updated more often, but they're still decent.)

The only reason I haven't upgraded to a new Zune is because this thing just works so well.

Everyone hated the Wii name before it came out. After it came out, nobody cared.

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