Feb 1 2010

The Zune Phone – Get Ready it’s coming!

Spanish blog MuyComputer claims that Microsoft will present the Zune Phone this February, at the MWC in Barcelona. According to them, it’s 100% confirmed. The Zune Phone will use Tegra, and Nvidia will team with Microsoft for the presentation.
Talking to the blog editorial director Javier Pérez Cortijo—and, full disclosure, long friend of mine—the Zune Phone [...]

Sep 21 2009

Zune Phone here for CES 2010

Microsoft has just released word of two new Smart Phones coming in 2010.  These phones don’t have an official name yet but like all Microsoft products have code Names. One device dubbed “Turtle” appears similar to the Zune with the same buttons and a slide out keyboard while the other device “Pure” looks more like [...]

Jul 13 2009

Zune Phone, Project Pink, Advertising Revealed!

Months and Months have gone by and it seems like we get a little clue every now and then that a Zune Phone could still be in the works.  Some weeks it looks pretty negative that we won’t ever see anything but that won’t stop us from trying to uncover anything we can!  Last week [...]

May 31 2009

‘Zune Mobile’ Phone, one more hint its coming!

A new Microsoft job listing has made it clear that the software giant is working on a “Zune Mobile” project.
The Windows Mobile Phone Entertainment team is searching for an engineer that can help develop an interface for the forthcoming Windows mobile phone while integrating Zune features into the popular Windows Mobile platform.
The posting adds: “Responsibilities [...]

Apr 28 2009

“Pink” is Verizon and Microsoft’s iPhone Killer

The Verizon iPhone may be a Zune Phone instead. If not a Zune Phone then something else from Microsoft that merits secrecy and a codename like “Pink.” Something big is gearing up at Verizon and Microsoft is involved. It should be a touchscreen phone with multimedia playback as its main feature, besides calling, that is. [...]

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Apr 28 2009

Microsoft Expected to Release Cell Phone with Verizon Next Year.

Microsoft Corp.’s mysterious Zune phone has been discussed for several years since the world’s largest maker of software released its Zune portable digital media player, but Microsoft has never confirmed any plans on the matter. However, according to a newly reported rumour, the software giant will indeed release its rival for Apple iPhone, T-Mobile G1 [...]

Apr 14 2009

Microsoft: Zune Phone Rumors Resurface

Here we go again, the Microsoft Zunephone on and off again saga is back on!
According to tech news site the Inquirer, Microsoft has enlisted Flextronics for a prototype run of about 2,500 Zune phones. The item also notes that Nvidia “has been privately and separately bragging to analysts that they are going to get [...]

Feb 21 2009

Once more, with feeling: Microsoft says isn’t making its own phone

Microsoft officials emphasized again this week that the company is not — contrary to evidence and opinion — making its own Microsoft-branded phone.
Financial analysts attending the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona this week asked Andy Lees, Senior Vice President for Mobile Communications, during a Q&A session on February 16 about Microsoft’s phone plans. (I [...]

Feb 18 2009

Toshiba TG01 Touchscreen – Zune Phone?

Toshiba is the official manufacturer of the Microsoft Zune portable media player, so there is a possibility that the new Toshiba TG01 touchscreen smartphone could be hinting at an upcoming Zune Phone.
That possibility may be slim, depending on your perspective, but the possibility is certainly there.
As you can quite plainly see, the new Toshiba TG01 [...]

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Jan 28 2009

The new sidekick = Zune Phone?

We have already reported on the acquisition of Danger software by Microsoft a while back.   There is a new sidekick in the works and we are hoping to see some hints of the zune incorporated into the new phone. Microsoft wouldn’t purchase Danger if there wasn’t anything more in the future.  With the recent announcement [...]

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