Zune Phone Commeth: “Not so fast,” J Allard
- October 3rd, 2007
- 4 Comments
We know the Zune Phone is coming. It has to. MS is having a pretty hard time in the cellphone market, as Windows Mobile is anything but aweome. Sure, it sells, but who goes shopping for a WinMo phone? You take what you can get. And it’s hardly as profitable as it could be.
What MS needs is a hit of a handset, something to fight back at the iPhone. We all know this, and the Zune is a great place to start. So where’s the Zune Phone? More on that later.
J Allard, the Microsoftie in charge of the Zune group (hey, J!), said in a recent Reuter’s interview that there were no “immediate plans” for a Zune Phone, but then confused us by mentioning that the underlying OS for the Zune is the same as that used by Windows Mobile. Very interesting indeed.
We know that a Zune Phone is in the works, and rumors around Seattle persist that there are prototypes in the wild. And while we’re normally quite good at tracking these down, we’ve had no luck here. But we’ll keep trying, and we’ll let you know what we’ve found.
Microsoft’s Allard: No Immediate Plans For Zune Phone [mocoNews]
Avatar (Who am I?)
1 year ago
“who shops for a WinMo phone?”
yeah, it seems that palm offering a default winmo version and sonericcson doing a deal with htc to bring the first winmo SE device to the market along the recent contract signing by the 3 biggest korean cellphone companies would state otherwise…
and if you havent seen a photon demo, that is your fault..
broepke (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I had an original portable media center - when you paper cliped it you could see the windows mobile screen… the UI for the Zune is the same and we all know it’s a gigabeat under it… makes total sense that all they need to do is add hardware and turn on the phone featues… new UI of course.
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7 months ago
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7 months ago
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