Zune Phone Forum » zone phone http://www.zune-phone.net Zune Phone Forum and News Blog Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:36:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 The new sidekick = Zune Phone? http://www.zune-phone.net/the-new-sidekick-zune-phone/ http://www.zune-phone.net/the-new-sidekick-zune-phone/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:02:36 +0000 admin http://www.zune-phone.net/?p=147 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The new sidekick = Zune Phone?", url: "http://www.zune-phone.net/the-new-sidekick-zune-phone/" });]]> zune-sidekickWe 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 of disappointing earnings and layoff’s  maybe that will spark the fire and get Microsoft going with this Zune Phone Project!

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]]> http://www.zune-phone.net/the-new-sidekick-zune-phone/feed/ 0 Ballmer Changes Tune On iPhone, Says No Zune Phone http://www.zune-phone.net/steve-balmer-don%e2%80%99t-expect-a-zune-phone/ http://www.zune-phone.net/steve-balmer-don%e2%80%99t-expect-a-zune-phone/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:51:11 +0000 admin http://www.zune-phone.net/?p=138 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ballmer Changes Tune On iPhone, Says No Zune Phone", url: "http://www.zune-phone.net/steve-balmer-don%e2%80%99t-expect-a-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 or 70 percent or 80 percent of [mobile phones], than I would to have 2 percent or 3 percent, which is what Apple might get,” he said. And just this past September, the Microsoft headman predicted that the iPhone’s tight integration with all things Apple would cause it to “lose out” in the long run.

As for the Zune, Ballmer said this week that consumers “should not anticipate” a Zune phone. Instead of persisting as a Microsoft-built hardware product, the device’s core could eventually be integrated into other Windows-powered mobile devices, he explained.

Ballmer also said he believes the market for portable media players is in decline and will be replaced with general purpose devices like the iPhone and iPod touch.

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]]> http://www.zune-phone.net/steve-balmer-don%e2%80%99t-expect-a-zune-phone/feed/ 0 CES: Zune Phone, no. Pink, maybe http://www.zune-phone.net/ces-zune-phone-no-pink-maybe/ http://www.zune-phone.net/ces-zune-phone-no-pink-maybe/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:41:42 +0000 admin http://www.zune-phone.net/?p=18 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "CES: Zune Phone, no. Pink, maybe", url: "http://www.zune-phone.net/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 services under development (of which a Zune music service is expected to be one).  Pink has a business-services sibling; that set of unified-communications mobile services is codenamed “Rouge.”

Neither Pink nor Rouge is tied to a specific Windows Mobile release. Both are independent, the same way that Windows Live for Mobile services aren’t dependent on a particular WinMobile release.

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