I hope you weren’t too desperate to get a Microsoft Surface anytime Zune soon. They are only available on pre-order in select countries (you know … the ones where Windows Phone sort of works):
- Australia
- France
- Canada
- USA
- Germany
- UK
Hmm, and $499 seems to convert into EUR479. Strange that!?!?!
Hard luck! Try a Dell XPS 10 or Samsung ATIV instead. No such limitations there … and you get the option of a real keyboard with contained battery … the XPS10 has 20+ hours of video play time with the keyboard attached.
eh, Windows Phone services are pretty mediocre in Australia. That list of release countries merely mirrors the Day 1 release countries Apple uses. And Apple adds Australia to that list because the incrementals for Australia are pretty small (now that their – Apple’s – media services are pretty well established world wide) and they have absurd iDevice market share there.