battery

Bring your Zune 30’s dead battery back to life

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

dirtyDogStink has an article by Tod Hilton detailing the steps he used to reinvigorate his Zune 30’s battery which seemed to have taken a performance hit after the new firmware upgrade on launch day.
Tod did some research and here’s what he found:

Drain your Zune 30 completely of battery life until you get the exclamation […]

CNET posts Zune battery life test results

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

While the official test results from Microsoft on the new Zune’s battery life stated 30 hours of audio with wifi turned off, CNET is stating that that’s not the case. From CNET’s official Zune review:
Unfortunately, the 80 GB Zune’s battery life is only average when held up to a high-capacity competitor such as the […]

Zune 4, 8 and 80 battery life revealed

Monday, October 15th, 2007

So, what’s the verdict? Here’s what Cesar had to say:
Zune 4GB and Zune 8GBAudio: up to 24 hoursVideo: up to 4 hours
Zune 80Audio: up to 30 hoursVideo: up to 4 hours
We did all testing using pre-production hardware and software, with the wireless turned off. Audio was tested using 128kbps .wma tracks, and video was tested […]