Ballmer Changes Tune On iPhone, Says No Zune Phone
Zach Spear writes the following article for AppleInsider
Shortly after the iPhone was announced at Macworld 2007, Ballmer lambasted the Apple handset as the “most expensive phone in the world” while noting that Microsoft sells “millions and millions and millions of phones a year” while “Apple sells zero.”
“I’d prefer to have our software in 60 percent [...]
What To Watch For From Microsoft At CES
Windows Mobile: At a dinner in Santa Clara, Calif., in early September, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer boasted of Windows Mobile’s standing in the smart phone market: Over the past year, he said, smart phones with Windows Mobile installed had outsold both Research in Motion’s BlackBerry and Apple’s iPhone.
When Ballmer takes the stage at the [...]
Windows Mobile: What Microsoft Needs To Fix
In recent months, Microsoft’s mobile strategy has hit a rough patch. In the third quarter, iPhone maker Apple shipped more smartphones than all 56 device makers that make Windows Mobile phones combined, according to research firm Canalys. As a result, Windows Mobile slid from its position as the world’s second-most popular mobile operating system a [...]
CES: Zune Phone, no. Pink, maybe
Gizmodo has the word from the horse’s (sorry Brian Seitz) mouth: No Zune phone is coming at the Consumer Electronics Show.
What might be coming — and is likely the source of confusion — the “Pink” premium consumer mobile services.
Pink is not the codename for a phone; it is the codename for a set of [...]
Zune Phone Really In The Works?
The success of the iPhone, both the original and the recently released 3G model, has fueled rumors that Microsoft is working internally on a similar phone built on the Zune audio player. The Zune player has failed to compete against the iPod family as grandly perhaps as Microsoft wished but perhaps the folks in Redmond [...]
No Zune Phone But Zune Touch Soon
An article by Grahm Skee from AnythingButIPod
SFGate recently interviewed Robbie Bach. This is the guy in charge of the Xbox, Zune, and Windows Mobile- all of those ultra competitive consumer devices. In this interview the question of whether or not we would see a Zune phone was brought up.
At first Robbie touts the fact that [...]
Zune Phone ‘not unreasonable’
On September 4, 2007, Microsoft said that it is “not unreasonable” for the company to introduce a mobile phone combined with features of its Zune digital music player to compete with Apple’s iPhone.
The Zune phone, a topic of speculation for months since Microsoft introduced its first digital music player last year, could be driven by [...]
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