Zune, freshly out, and already planned to become a phone
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If you still don’t know it, that’s the news on the day: Zune is out. Is iPod threaten? Not really. Even if Zune includes WiFi functionalities, that should enable song-sharing among targeted audiences (understand: the kids.) We’re not covering here what everyone else is doing.
But, as Ray Ozzie says it before, Zune should be considered as the emerged part of the multi-services iceberg. And among the forthcoming tools, there’s the cellphone functions. The confirmation comes today: “A Zune phone is definitely part of the future of this brand,” told Chris Stephenson, GM of Global Marketing for Zune, to the press.
The big question is when. When will Microsoft roll out those splendid tools that all together will crush the iPod hegemony? The iPhone should be unveiled by early 2007, and Apple is already rumored to step into the MVNO market…
Sep 15, 2006 | By Nuno
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Call me crazy, but I like the brown.
And I have to give it to Microsoft, they understand that it will take years to gain a great market… but this first-gen is way better than the first, second and third generation iPods were.
Good luck to them.
Marcus: You’re crazy.
[…] But now that the iPhone is out, Microsoft is also planning to include wireless video sharing facility in the device and convert it into a smartphone. While the question of its cellular connectivity isn’t set yet, Microsoft chief architect software Ray Ozzie said the company has been preparing to include VoIP in it. In September, the company rolled out a pair of headsets of the LifeChat series, one is Bluetooth-enable, most likely for a portable communication device… […]
[…] Microsoft keeps trying to control the cellphone market, and never hides its intention to tweak its audio portable device Zune into a cellphone. At the last CES, Peter Moore, Microsoft’s vice president for Xbox video game business, already confirmed the cellphone move and added the portable platform would first be able to play handheld games. […]