Zune HD or iPod Touch

[ISLAGI]

So I am looking to get some type of mp3 player for my son this Christmas. He just turned 13 and thinks I am the meanest dad in the world because I won't let him get a cellphone (woohoo me!!!)

I am thinking that I want to get either the Zune or the Touch, so he can listen to music, watch movies/video, and even d/l some books now that Amazon is doing their thing.

I like the price and the storage on the Zune, but the Touch is a lot more flexible/feature-rich. Not only that, the Touch is at least 50 bones more than Zune.

Thoughts?

 

[pickles]

What's a Zune

 

[stevo155]

The ipod touch are like mini-computers these days...

 

[jsb]

Microsoft is moving away from the Zune, so I hear. the iPods, of which my family has many, are well made, dependable, and sleek. I am not necessarily an apple fanboy, but the ipod has more street cred.

 

[IrregularPulse]

iPod if you want to lose that meanest dad in the world title. I don't like Apple from principal, but I love my Touch With the new touch's, you don't need a cell phone. If he's somewhere with a wifi connection, he can talk, video chat, and text with the touch. Gen4 needed for the video chat (facetime).

 

[Flywheel]

Archos 43
http://www.archos.com/products/ta/archos_43it/index.html?country=us&lang=en

 

[IrregularPulse]

Archos 43
http://www.archos.com/products/ta/archos_43it/index.html?country=us&lang=en

Depends on if his 13 year old is tech savvy, or just a 13 year old boy. AT the age, it doesn't really matter what the device can or can't do, it's the fact that there is a silver apple on the back of it and there are colored squares on the screen. Because that's what his friends' look like.

 

[Flywheel]

Depends on if his 13 year old is tech savvy, or just a 13 year old boy. AT the age, it doesn't really matter what the device can or can't do, it's the fact that there is a silver apple on the back of it and there are colored squares on the screen. Because that's what his friends' look like.

touché

but his hacker friends might like it....

 

[jbrookeiv]

iPod Touch.

 

[jwatson]

iPod touch so when he is on wifi he can use it as a phone.

 

[Julohan]

I voted for the zunehd. I have an ipod and my friend has a zune. I feel that the only benefit to the ipod touch is the apps. Which for me, I do not care about. I think the zune sounds better, looks better, and the software is better.

I have no clue about microsoft steering away from the zune, but I would think not, since the new Windows Phone 7 has zune integration.

Though for his age I am sure everybody his age (and the rest of the world) has an ipod, so he would probably rather have the ipod.

 

[Drainage]

I say iPod, just because it's easy to transfer music using iTunes.

 

[buffalobrewer]

touch, as long as you can use beeralchemy on brewday....

well, if you also have a mac.