If you are a committed runner, this device will not disappoint you. The built in FM tuner has the best reception of any portable device I’ve used.

I use the Belkin neoprene armband while I workout, and the plastic cover does not keep me from having full control of the device and use of the touchpad. Every review I read on armbands for the Nano were very negative, as the Nano’s touch wheel is pretty much useless under a thin layer of plastic in an armband.

Zune Marketplace is by far a better application than iTunes with it’s well designed user interface.

If you are on the fence between an iPod Nano and the Zune, I recommend that you do your homework on which features are the most vital to you, and how you will use it. If you want a very functional and well designed mp3 player, and an FM tuner is vital to you, I highly recommend the Zune over any other player on the market, hands down. If style and image are more vital to you, and you don’t mind being a lemming, you can’t go incorrect with an iPod because “everyone’s got one”.

Otherwise, the sound is excellent, the capacity is fantastic and I’m enjoying parts of it. Some of its features are of no iterest to me, so it might be rated higher by someone more interested in them.

I Only found 2 points down on the zune thing

1.- Marketplace only for US residents; Me as a Mexican citizen found the marketplace a small bit tough to be accesed from my country but I manage to do it, I reckon if Marketplace would be expanded to Mexico would be fantastic apart than Mexico offers a large market for any kind of brand.

2.- Limited Accesories; I wanted to buy inmediatly excellent sound docks for my Zune , but I found them very limited and very few of them. I reckon with the time the zune will become more well loved and become even more “accesorizable” lets say .

Specifically, with Napster if I want to listen to current Dance Pop, I simply choose the Dance Pop radio station (a DJ crafted playlist). With Zune Pass, the closest I could get was to find a playlist such as “Dance Pop hits 2004″, “Dance Pop hits 2005″ etc. I couldn’t find a “Dance Pop hits 2008″ or similar playlist, so the playlists seemed kind of outdated for what is a relatively new service.

From a hardware standpoint, if the Zune would work with Napster, I would still own it. Since I’m forced to choose between Zune Pass and Napster – I’ve chosen Napster.

It didn’t break my heart too much to return the Zune but, because I know there are other brands of similar MP3 players for roughly half the price, which will let me use Napster or Rhapsody.

The music subscription service is the most vital feature to me. I suspect I may be in a minority but, because without fail, when I clarify how the subscription service works, the universal response is, “Hey buddy, I can show you how to download music for free!”

In the past, neither the iPod nor the Zune were compatible with services like Napster or Rhapsody, and thus were of no interest to me.

While no weirder to P2P networks such as limewire, frostwire, bearshare etc., and more recently torrents, I’ve never been one to download music unless it was something that I already own on CD (I have a relatively decent collection of probably 800 CDs, although I’ve only bought 2 CDs in nearly 10 years). Thus, being able to learn and legally download new music is very attractive.

I believe that subscription services are the way of the future, and that the iPod will eventually have to succumb to that reality, or risk becoming irrelevant. The Zune is one step ahead of them right now, and if the Zune Pass was on par with Napster, I would be using one right now. I do hope that Microsoft can pull it together, as I find the iPod fanaticism to be quite annoying, and yet their current offering w/ the new iPod Touch is an attractive piece of hardware.