Give this one ^^^ a cookie!
I hope this does emerge in January and turns out to be GREAT!
....just in time for Apple to fight back come WWDC '09.
Don't get me wrong, I love Apple. I just think they need a little nudge!
GO ZunePhone!!!
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Give this one ^^^ a cookie!
I hope this does emerge in January and turns out to be GREAT!
....just in time for Apple to fight back come WWDC '09.
Don't get me wrong, I love Apple. I just think they need a little nudge!
GO ZunePhone!!!
100% agree.
Except with your sig about the Panamera. It has its own German style that few cars can match, let alone a Ford. 
I wonder it will beat the zunes 2 million worldwide sales
Whenever Microsoft enters a market in which it has no dominance, it always fails miserably.
right
the Xbox is a miserable failure
thats why Sony's game division came close to bankruptcy around the time of the release of the PS3
because the Xbox was kicking its teeth in
to each their own
I personally find Apple's multitouch keyboard better than any other cell phone text input method (be it number keys, another touchscreen keyboard, a handwriting method, or a qwerty)
I also think the fact that, in order to get all of your contacts, calendars, music, photos, videos, etc onto the new Blackberry Storm takes 5 different programs (instead of just iTunes) a major flaw of the device, not a feature. Sure, if they offered a Zunephone that was compatible with other programs besides WMP that'd be nice, but to not build WMP so that the whole phone could be managed from that one program would be a very bad decision on Microsoft's part
we live in a world where the all-in-one is on the rise
electronic devices try to implement as many things as possible (computers stream tv, tv accesses your computer, blu ray players interact with the internet, game consoles can run entire home theatre systems, plus web browse. Handheld devices are doing everything, so you only need 1, instead of 2 or more)
software is no different. Programs need to start being designed to do multiple tasks effectively, instead of just one, and also to interact seamlessly with other programs.
why would they be, imitation is the highest form of flattery.
What microsoft have in advantage is that it will likely be targetted at business user who might already be using window mobile and have every connected.
I have used my friends iphone quite a bit and i have yet to type a sentence without messing something up. I have a blackjack myself and its buttons are tiny, but i almost never type anything wrong because i can feel the buttons.
Another bonus of actual buttons is for games and apps. I put an NES emulator on my buddies iphone and its really difficult to play because i cant rest my thibs on the screen like i can with buttons.
I like the idea of using one app to manage everything, but i hate the fact that one MUST have itunes installed in order to activate the iphone. I hate itunes, and if i were running xp i wouldnt want that crap on my computer. If MS gave functionality to WMP to manage the zunephone then i would be happy, but forcing users to get one app in order to use their phone to begin with is a little ridiculous.
Really, I didn't know that.
I'd love to see a zunephone, it would make me feel so much better about having an iPhone
If it is called the zunephone as well that'll be hilarious in itself...
"What's the difference between the zunephone and the iPhone?"
"Well, the names, for one thing, ermmm, basically we stole all apples ideas, but, we gave each app difference names, so lets use the telephone speaky speaky application, now we'll go into the instant messaging (not that kind) app, now we'll go into the (Internet) explorer of certain areas found in africa that harbor such animals as Tigers, Lions and Giraffes app, oh, bsod, damn..."
Woah woah woah, that's alot of integration there, slow down buddy, remember, this is microsoft, the guys that put wifi in a mp3 player, then didn't give it a internet browser...
true but how would you have had a poor user enter anything on said internet browser? That would have been scary.
Ummmm...could you please supply a source for that?? 6 billion per year?? That would mean that, on average, every single person on the planet buys a new mobile phone every year. Once you take the youngest and oldest out of the running, then most people would be averaging two phones per year.
Every source I read says closer to 1 billion sold per year.
How would you use a web browser on a zune? If it was touch screen, I understand that, but there were only a few buttons on the device.
It's microsoft, they don't think about the little things like ease of use, as long as it looks good on the spec sheet, it's a good product
It's microsoft, they don't think about the little things like ease of use, as long as it looks good on the spec sheet, it's a good product
eh...?
but they didn't do it... falsifying the facts to suit your argument isn't great.
Sounds great news to me
Lets hope Microsoft add features that users want and not what they think we want
Might be worth considering the move back to windows and getting one of these when my o2 contract is up for renewel
Lets hope Microsoft add features that users want and not what they think we want
Might be worth considering the move back to windows and getting one of these when my o2 contract is up for renewel
I think moving back to windows might be a little too far, but I think many people will consider this phone as long as its better than any of the "iPhone killers" currently on the market.
I like how the story in the original post was debunked before it was posted here.
I wonder it will beat the zunes 2 million worldwide sales
Whenever Microsoft enters a market in which it has no dominance, it always fails miserably.
I remember when WordPerfect ruled the market in word processing. I was a devoted fan. Then came MS Office. Poof! How much of the market belongs to WordPerfect at this point?
I'm pretty sure everyone in the know hates Vista, but realize it's their only choice if the A) want a computer that isn't built by Apple, or B) want to build their own computer and run a 64 bit OS. It's not a matter of actually liking Vista at all, it's that there is no alternative most of the time (if you use Linux, you often can't easily use the software you want). I don't know anyone who actually likes Vista in any respect, and it seems to me that the more people know about computers or operating systems specifically, the more they are inclined to hate Vista based on legitimate shortcomings, not just because the Leopard commercials tell them to.
I don't hate Vista.. I use it as my only OS (I tried a Hackint0sh, it failed). I would love to have a mac over Vista anyday. But in the Windows department, I'd rather have Vista then XP. I for one can do a LOT of stuff on Vista, that I would just do slower on XP because of the change in location/looks. I've been using Vista for ~1 year now, and I haven't looked back. Now whenever my friends ask me for XP help, I try to look up images on Google and see what the equivalent of Vista is for XP.
Oh, By the way: I'm in the know~
Oh, By the way: I'm in the know~
I love Vista! And I'm in the know. Most stable best running windows OS ever. Unlike you Mac fans I configure the PC which I want. This phone has crashed more in a day than Vista has in a year. Actually, other than driver crashes Vist has never had an OS crash.
Well the way the way the zune was when i got one (which was when they first came out so if im wrong correct me please) i had to download a zune player just to use it, which was awfully familiar to WMP so isnt that the equivalent of installing itunes? Plus if you have an iphone and a mac...well it already has itunes installed so nothing new to download. So simply put if you are on a PC dont you always have to download some version of "crap".