Tuesday, February 03, 2009

The Zune TTwist Interface by ME

When you turn on the touch based Zune you get a menu similar to the one now. For now these are all in landscape since when its vertical its the same as the original twist interface.  As you can see here when you click music you music pops up split screen style. This way its possible to access your other media without pressing back 20 times and plus its similer to the Zune software.  
 When you touch a song and play it you get the now playing screen which shows the large album art the Zune is acustomed to. On the right and left you have a back, next buttons, and when your playing music a visualiser shows up. I think a customizable ray like whats on the zune software would probably be better.

 So how about when you want to buy new Music or download new podcasts? Well you enter the Zune Mobile Marketplace. As you start out its the same as on the PC, you get to see the top songs recomended to you along with channels and friends. As you slide over you enter the music part. 
As you can see its basically the same as the PC software. You got the Artist of the week along with whatever else they want to fuddle at you, plus it shows top Songs, albums, and new releases. Im not going to show podcasts since its the same deal.

So as Microsoft said, they want to intergrate the Zune with Xbox live more. So why not allow the Zune to access the Xbox Live Marketplace to download Demos and Videos to you Xbox 360 from anywhere in the world.

 As you can see we have the Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage DLC. You can choose to download it to your Xbox 360, watch a trailer of it right there, or view screen shots right from the device. I think this would be a very smart way to intergrate the Xbox 360 and the Zune device. Along with the marketplace you can go to social on the main Zune screen and view your friends in the Social along with your Xbox Live friends.
   
Here you can see who is on. You can change between only online or all. It shows what game there playing and what there status is. When you click there name, lets say biggles then you see this screen. 
 This screen allows you to see there Avatar, gamerscore, what there playing, and you can send them a message. 

This TTwist interface which stands for Touch Twist, allows you to nearly have the full Xbox and Zune experience anywhere you go. Right in the palm of your hand. 


1 comment:

Whispering Mute said...

I must say you've outdone yourself.