The S9's are great headphones but they have the worst mic from anything I have tried. if you really want to have a good mic you have to go back to a normal hands free headset or use a car stereo with Bluetooth A2DP like I do. It is great because it is wireless and is better quality than my Zune was using the analog input to the stereo. and it automatically stops the tunes when a call comes in.
The thing I think that still needs work is the UI. I would love to see something that had the look and feel (WITH fixes and Improvements of cource) of the ZuneHD. I have had the ZuneHD pluged into my Bigscreen with hdmi and into my car which shows the video on the head-unit and would love to get an android player that had that same look and feel. When I worked at M$, I tried to get feedback for changes to the right people but it seemed that they were not open to suggestions at all. I was even on the Zune-XBox team and it still didnt help. now that Im disconnected from the Borg, I have been replacing all my implants. WM to Droid, Zune To Droid, Windows to Linux...
With the new Droid X, I see an opportunity to completely replace and Fix the Zune. The Phone has the FM Radio (NOT HD, but ok), hdmi output (but might be limited to self recorded video), and I don't think you can put anything bigger than 32GB in it. and if there was a card bigger, it would cost more than the phone.!!!!
If anyone out there wants to attempt a player to blow away Zune, I have a lot of feedback and tips that could be a benefit. The main beneifit in the ZuneHD UI that I want to see is the screen saver while playing music. It is great on the BigScreen durring a party and in the car while driving if a few changes could be made.
Here are a few Highlights.
* THE Screen saver needs to be able to let you pick which elements are displayed.
* adding a normal clock
* getting rid of things like the current tracks position in seconds
(seconds left would have made more sense)
* getting news (album releases, concert schedules,...) from the internet.
* Starting and stopping each track with a non moving (artist,album,title)
in large text and showing this on a button press so you can tell if that weird
word is the name of the album , band, or song. (very helpful in the car).
* Car, Nightstand, Party..... Modes to customize the display for each.
* Add Radio Info.... (on the zuneHD it does nothing)
this was one of my suggestions that went no where.
Use the RDS data to generate an ongoing list of artist,album,song from
the stations you listen to and when synced (or with a phone dynamically)
populate a database with all of the need info to do the same screen saver
as MP3s. also it it highly likely that you will have the MP3s for the same
songs you listen to on the radio so you can use that info as well.
* there are places to get the historical playlists of every radio station in the
US. Use that info to let you generate playlists that mirror a specific station
when your not in the area to hear that station or if you dont have an
fm tuner. that way you get a variety but still similar.
* Radio repeats too much, be able to set a repeat limit value that if a song
plays agian within the limited time it switches to a random mp3 and comes
back to the radio when its done.
* TIVO functionality on the radio, if the hardware allows it. lets you build an
mp3 library from the radio.
* combine straming services under the same UI (pandora,...)
* expand on the Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down marking to let you specify the
thing you want to see different in the random songs being played.
ex. Tempo faster/slower, Harder /Softer, happier/sadder
:angry:
(here is the chance to copywrite new icons like tivo did with the thumbs)
oh well, I have many more Ideas, I just have not got the skills to write my own program.....
