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It appears that CNET has gotten their hands on a full working version of Microsoft’s upcoming spankin’ new Zune HD and they are thoroughly impressed.  Click the link to check out the full details straight from the horse’s mouth or continue reading for my highlights.

The big thing for the new Zune is of course the 3.3 inch capacitive OLED touch screen.  Along with the solid and expensive feeling hardware the glass covered OLED screen is big, bright and beautiful.  It also sports a resolution of 480×272 which may seem odd considering the next feature.

720p HD resolution support for movies that you can rent and download straight from the Zune Marketplace.   The movies will be scaled back to the Zune’s native resolution when viewing on screen, however, if you want to hook it up with a dock you can send the full 720 right onto your big screen.  So much for grabbing a couple of DVD’s and bringing them to a friend’s to watch, just dump them on the Zune and go.

The new Zune uses NVidia’s new Tegra processor which should help to give the Zune plenty of power and better battery life then previous incarnations.  That’s good news considering when you’re using WiFi you can open up the Zune’s new web browser and cruise around.  According to CNET’s Donald Bell

… the Zune’s new Web browser smokes. Not since first using the iPhone have I been this impressed with a mobile Web browser.

Still no flash support on this mobile browser either so forget streaming Pandora but at least you can hit up Facebook and Twitter if you want.