CNET: Microsoft’s Zune 80 can’t even achieve half the battery life of Apple’s iPod classic "CNET Labs has just published the results of their Zune 80 audio-only battery tests and "the numbers are somewhat disappointing," Donald Bell reports for CNET.

Despite Microsoft's rating of the Zune 80 for 30 hours of audio playback with the Wi-Fi feature turned off, "lab testing revealed that the Zune 80 is realistically capable of 22 hours of audio playback with the Wi-Fi feature turned off, or 18.5 hours with the Wi-Fi feature enabled," Bell reports.

"While 22 hours is certainly better than the 13 hours we got from the first-generation Zune, it's nowhere close to the 45 hours we were able to get from the competing 80GB iPod classic," Bell reports."

Labels: ipod, zune

  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 11/28/2007 12:00:00 AM