RUMOR: Microsoft Zune’s user interface revealed in images

iLounge has posted “details on the Zune’s user interface, with some nifty ‘not quite screenshot, but better than hand-sketch’ artwork that explains pretty much how the whole thing works and looks. Since most of the UI is really plain – white text on a black background sort of stuff, except the background can be skinned with full-color artwork – these artists’ representations only highlight a few key points from the menus.”

Jeremy Horwitz explains, “From what we know, Zune’s current top-level menu contains six plain text choices: Music, Videos, Pictures, Community, Radio, and Settings. They’re presented almost identically to the format seen above, which depicts the Settings menu.”

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