Zune

Many of you know I’m a big music fan, so I got pumped when I heard about a new offer from Windows Phone for some free music. The new Gentleman Hall album has been free the last few weeks, but tomorrow is the last day to download! Head over to the Zune Marketplace on your PC, or just login at Zune.net to stream or download.

Windows Phone had a fantastic week last week at CES. 2 new 4G LTE-enabled Windows Phones were announced for AT&T: the HTC Titan II and Nokia Lumia 900.

Hello everyone. Busy week—here’s what’s going on:

We’re now sending out Windows Phone 7.5 updates to customers with Samsung Focus 1.4 phones on AT&T. We’re also scheduling the update for Samsung Omnia 7 owners on Telefonica in Spain. Expect us to expedite the scheduling process, now that it’s been fully tested.

Windows Phone Radio number 47 is out, recorded direct from gdgt Live in Los Angeles, CA! gdgt was a great hit, and our Windows Phone after party kept people mingling well into the night. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to give us feedback, ask questions and show off their own Windows Phones. We appreciate the support! Make sure to register for one of our upcoming events if you can, we would love to have you.

If you love music, you’re going to love Nokia Music for Windows Phone.  It takes the things that you already love about Zune – millions of tracks to download, personalization, and great audio quality – and extends it to make your music experience even better.    Mark Wheatly, Nokia Music’s product manager, took me through the apps to show me some of its unique features.

Windows Phone Radio 46 is ready! This week we cover a cool new sweepstakes from the Microsoft Facebook page, and a fun giveaway of our own. Friend of Windows Phone radio Johan Van Mierlo of ProClip USA has graciously offered to give away one of his ProClip auto solutions for each of the Windows Phone models [except LG devices].

Lots of new stuff this week to chat about in the podcast, including the Xbox LIVE companion app for Windows Phone and the announcement of the Jil Sander Windows Phone from LG.

Here we are again for another Windows Phone Radio episode! Exciting week as Mango started to make to phones all over, we are excited to hear what you think. This week we talk about the update, new pricing for the Zune Pass music subscription service, updates to apps for Mango, launch of the suggestion box and much more! You can find Windows Phone Radio in the Zune Marketplace, in iTunes and streaming direct here.

thanks for listening!

Brian (@brianseitz)

Rock on, Canada! Starting Monday, the Zune Music Marketplace and Zune Music Pass is expanding north, giving Windows Phone owners in Canada access to more than 14 million tracks from all the major labels, as well as tens of thousands of indie tunes.

It’s underway!

This morning, at roughly 10 a.m. Pacific time, we began rolling out the Mango update to phones around the world. I’m sure you’re as excited as we are: Windows Phone 7.5 (aka Mango) is our largest and most feature-packed software refresh to date.

I do want to emphasize that today is just the start. Our plan, as I’ll explain in a moment, is to ramp up delivery gradually—but make the update available to most existing customers within 4 weeks.