What’s Microsoft been doing, a copycat of Apple’s product strategy? They seem to like so much of following Apple’s steps instead of having thier own flow and product strategy. After Apple’s iPod, they came out with Zune, which was trying to share some bites of the hot cake of iPod’s, but Zune still has a long catch-up to play. Now, Apple has got the iPhone, the combination of its older brother, iPod’s function, a camera’s and a cellphone’s in one, which has successfully created a big buzz! So Microsoft is trying to follow the steps again, i.e Zune Phone!
According to the tips collected by CrunchGear, Microsoft is still in the process of working out details and strategies for Zune Phone. Lets have a prelim look at what Zune Phone would offer:
It will be a smartphone that works homogeneously with the Zune marketplace. It will most likely not, however, run Windows Mobile. Rather it’ll make use of an interface similar to the current Zune, an interface that I consider among the best available on audio players—I’m sure it can transition to a phone easily.
Besides, it’s got something to do with Xbox 360 and the connectivity is the concern. It is said that Zune Phone will be able to sync with the Xbox 360 and stream video from the system to the phone via a wireless data connection. Microsoft seems to a bit ambitious on the video streaming, besides having millions of 360s in homes capable of downloading movies, it’ll push further to even having videos to be directly distributed to Zune Phones. Would Zune Phone offer interoperity to other Microsoft’s product? Such as as a SideShow display for Vista Media center etc?
If things go as planned, Zune Phone will be available for the ‘07 holiday season.
Via [CrunchGear], [TechCrunch]
Technorati: Zune,Zune Phone,iPhone,iPod,Apple,Microsoft,cellphone
on Fri, Feb 2nd, 07
at 12:16 am
[...] The most interesting is the targeted date to hit the market is in May. Wow! A month before the iPhone. I was talking about that MS always followed the steps of Apple, but now they seem to wanna fight for a step ahead! If all tips are correct, then MS is working on a mobile WiMax-enabled Zune Phone, which would have download speeds of up to 2Mbps, fast enough for any kind of streaming, especially Xbox-to-Zune. [...]