Although recent rumours have suggested that Microsoft's Zune HD will make its U.S. debut in under a month, the Redmond-based outfit has been reluctant to show off its next-gen handset.
Fortunately, everyone and anyone now seems to carry a camera of some form, and, at an event in San Francisco, somebody managed to capture Microsoft's Zune HD in action - showing off its lush interface and gorgeous OLED display.
The hardware demo was shown in a supposedly no-photography environment, but this here camera man opted to "shoot rather discretely with my Canon G9 pressed up against my chest to cover the LCD preview". Here's what Microsoft had to show:
It's clearly not the best quality recording we've ever seen, but Microsoft's decision to make use of NVIDIA's Tegra SoC looks to be a good one. The interface appears to be ultra smooth, and the quality of the image on the Zune HD's 3.3in OLED display looks impressive.
The Microsoft rep handling the device is also quizzed about the Zune HD's battery life. After praising NVIDIA's innards, the rep states "we're still benchmarking a bunch of battery stuff... so, we'll announce that soon, but it'll be better than any previous-generation devices".
Sounds promising, now if only they'd commit to a global launch.
