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Zune phone not coming at CES 2009 (rumor squashed)

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Kyle
on December 15, 2008
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Ina Fried is a senior staff writer for CNET’s News.com and she recently squashed all the rumors that the Zune phone was coming to CES 2009. Apparently, Ballmer won’t be unveiling the device and will instead be focusing his talk on Windows 7 from a consumer perspective.

“Microsoft will have a bunch of stuff to show at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, but a rumored Zune Phone won’t be one of them, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans. Instead, much of CEO Steve Ballmer’s focus will be on talking about Windows 7 from a consumer perspective. Microsoft is pushing to have Windows 7 done in time for the holiday 2009 shopping season, so that means this CES is Ballmer’s best stage to tout its benefits.”

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Zune phone to be revealed at CES 2009 (rumor)

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Kyle
on December 12, 2008
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Global Equities Research’s Trip Chowdhry is spreading the rumor that Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer will be unveiling the Zune phone at CES in LA on January 7th 2009. Chowdhry claims that the company’s new centerpiece will combine the best features of the Zune media player with the hardware design of Danger’s mobile Sidekick. Think of the iPhone with a slide out QWERTY.

My major issue with a Zune phone is development. Are we to expect a new OS that everyone will now have to develop separate apps for? Will it just be Windows Mobile apps ported to the Zune phone? Hey Ballmer, hows about getting some more info out to the masses? Thanks.

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Microsoft Zune coming to Windows Mobile

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Kyle
on October 3, 2008
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Microsoft Zune tattoo

Zune is a great mp3 player in the sense that it doesn’t have all the DRM hassles that you get with the iPod. You can share music with other Zune people and nobody will give you grief for it. The player will now be available for Windows Mobile users too. Hopefully, we’ll be able to share music with other WinMo users. I’m thinking this feature will become available with Windows Mobile 7.

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Homebrew gaming on your Zune

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Devin Kent
on May 8, 2008
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I just found out about a new tutorial for putting homebrew games on your Zune. It’s made possible by the XNA 3.0 (a programming language) tech preview that was just released. It’s a little on the tech-heavy side, but the instructions are clearly laid out and shouldn’t prove to be a problem for most people. So far, only Alien Aggressors and Galactic Wars 3 are available, but this and future releases of XNA should see a lot more games available soon.