Keeping the Zune current design and add VoIP in it is possible
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Will Zune include voice over WiFi? You bet, says CrunchGear. Such a rumor, true or false, won’t stop inflating until an official statement of Microsoft on the potential VoIP functionality.
For now, the speculation concentrates (with reasons) on the convergence of softwares. “Our guess [CrunchGear] is Microsoft will combine this with their big Live Messenger push to try to overtake Skype when it comes to desktop VoIP.”
But ZDNet blogger Russel Shaw wonders if the VoIP inclusion would be easy (understand available soon): “No clamshell- no foldover to go back and forth from the viewer to an onscreen dialpad. One way to circumvent this would be an add-on keyboard that could, when accessed via an extra “phone” (or probably cooler-named) prompt in the Zune onscreen menu I am showing you, would call up an in-viewer indicator that would display the numbers as they are dialed.”
He might be referring to the Mylo, the personal communicator device that Sony recently relaunched with Skype and Gizmo in it. Mylo comes with such a dialpad.
Another scenario: Microsoft Unified Communications
But there’s another scenario to bring VoIP in Zune. We saw Microsoft rolling a pair of headsets, one corded, one Bluetooth-powered. Guess what, both would perfectly fit the job. You’re
listeningsharing music on your device. An incoming call hits it. Of course, you answer it. The music stops for you to receive your call quietly.Now, how would you IM your friends? Remember voice-recognition systems that should come with the Windows Vista release. It is said to provide 95-99.x% accuracy.
Let’s imagine again: You tick your device, select who you want to talk to. You take again your headset and start talking to write down your IM message. You could even customize your words to add smileys and/or include word abbreviation. In fact, you never stop talking. And Zune keeps remaining the same as its current design.
Does this sound cool to you?
Sep 21, 2006 | By Nuno
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That would be very could but the battery life would become even more an issue.
[…] CrunchGear guesses that the Zune can be upgraded later on to run VoiP applications. I’m guessing someone was running out of things to write about, and pulled a post out of his ass. […]