The third generation of Microsoft's Zune portable media player product line has been talked about and speculated for quite a while now, but very little has managed to leak out of Redmond, until now. A Canadian has supposedly somehow gotten his hands on both 16GB and 120GB flavors of the Zune, both of which are expected to be released under Zune 3.0 (recall that the original Zune 30GB is considered first generation and that the Zune 4, Zune 8, and Zune 80 are considered second generation). Zunited has four pictures the lucky Canadian supposedly took with a 2.0MP camera:
If you doubt the authenticity of these pictures because the 16GB box is in English as well as French, recall that this is likely because the Zune came to Canada back in June. There really isn't much else to glean from these images, other than the fact that the third generation Zune really doesn't seem to have anything new going for it on the outside, except for maybe a little gloss on the front.
Microsoft probably isn't trying to stray away too much from what it currently has hardware-wise, because it is likely hoping to again roll out the new firmware version to previous generations (like it did when it released the second generation Zunes). The first generation Zune was really a modified Toshiba 1089, and only in the second generation did Microsoft truly take over the hardware, and give the firmware and software a serious revamp. The third generation will likely only have minor hardware tweaks, and of course a new firmware version. Zunited claims that it has "undeniable proof from an exclusive and disclosed source that the 120gb model is running 2.5 firmware."
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