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By: Ran Moore

Ran Moore — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:21:45 +0000

No, a good name would be Zune Surface M. Cross-branding! Of course it would have to best Apple’s mobile market beast, but honestly, with backing of XBOX and The Social pegging the tweener market shouldn’t be a daunting task.

The Social could gobble up facebook or have interoperability.

You can’t make it a Sidekick. The design language is old and tired. And while copying the iPhone may seem to be the easy way out, they could just use Motorola’s Atila platform perhaps with a Tegra chipset (please).

Microsoft does partnerships very well. This could be the phone to experience, and like Android-farm it out to the masses of manufactures. I do however believe, that there would have to be very strict design rules. A list of must haves. I don’t want to see another cobbled beast like windows mobile. It is happered too much by being a jack knife. Limit the hardware design to strengthen the OS.

I’d buy one.

And dang, that was all over the map.

By: ncmacasl

ncmacasl — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:52:26 +0000

possible names:

Sidekick Zune
Sidekick Z
Sidekick Z1

(sense a trend? Make it a sidekick!!!)

Sidekick LX/08’s media player is decent but pretty basic.

a happy marriage of the 2 with a better Web Browser (more JavaScript; allow YouTube) and touch screen (and 16 GB?) would be awesome!!

By: kyleman2k

kyleman2k — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:55:35 +0000

It would only be a good thing if it was running on a different OS. So, unless that happens–no, a Zune phone would not be a good thing.

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Why Microsoft should make the ZunePhone at Andrew Min’s Blog — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:31:58 +0000

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By: uniqueGifts

uniqueGifts — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:10:56 +0000

If the Zune were combined with a phone it would be an iPhone killer for sure. And Windows mobile sucks for sure. My buddy has it on his sprint phone and the GUI is so blah!!

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:06:38 +0000

Ironic code name, since that was the name of the operating system that was being built by Apple/IBM/Motorola (AIM) in the early 90s, by two IBM-created companies Taligent and Kaleida, to be a whole new OS to compete with Windows, Solaris, UNIX, etc./2.

It was going to have a cross-platform scripting language, selectable interfaces – Mac or OS/2 or others – and would have become the multitasking champ of OSs back in the 90s. But they couldn’t pull it together.

But it makes one wonder, does MS ever have a single original idea any more? Seems the name Vista was the last original idea they had.

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:37:31 +0000

I want one.

I love my Zune, but I don’t carry it with me everywhere. I’d love it even more if it was also my phone. I’m all about convergence. The less devices I have to carry, the better. As far as I’m concerned, my Blackberry has a big bulls-eye on the front of it.

They need to make a CDMA version, though, and get to the half of America that Apple is completely ignoring.