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Okay, so it's Tuesday and still no Zune announcement [2]...hmm. At any rate, more details are now starting to surface and if Engadget's "trusted source close to the situation" is to be believed, tomorrow--not today--is the day when all that new Zuneage gets unveiled. To back up these claims, Engadget has provided us with a legit-looking photo of a regular old Zune running firmware version 2.1--the new firmware revision that will allegedly allow the old Zune to play nice with its soon-to-be-born younger siblings. Meanwhile, over at Zune Scene, some photos showed up of what look like cardboard demo units of the new Zunes for in-store displays. These look almost identical to the leaked product renders that we saw a few weeks ago and seem to lend further legitimacy to the rumor that Microsoft will launch a flash-based Nano competitor in addition to a refresh of the hard drive-based Zune [3].

For more on the forthcoming Zunes:
- see this Engadget article [4]
- and this Zune-Online article [5]