I loved my Zune as well (it also got stolen, weirdly), not only because of all the reasons above but even the headphones were of excellent quality and lasted as

I loved my Zune as well (it also got stolen, weirdly), not only because of all the reasons above but even the headphones were of excellent quality and lasted as long as the device did (in comparison, both iPod headphones I've owned broke after around 2 months). The only major flaw it had was a lack of fonts to display unicode characters! I know it was mostly (only?) sold in the US but wanting to display artist names in Chinese or cyrillic characters must surely be a basic feature.