Dec 11 2008Oh Snap, There's A Zune Phone Coming!
Or is there? I don't know, I'm not good at speculation. But I am good at making shit up. And also, making out. Ladies?
According to Trip Chowdhry, an analyst at Global Equities Research, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will announce a Zune-style mobile device during his keynote address at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, on January 7, 2009. In an article in Barron's, 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, in addition to "motion enhancement features," like an accelerometer.
Basically, this means the device will come with a physical keyboard like HTC's G1 and will likely feature a larger screen to accommodate heavy multimedia elements. And since we're all here copying each other's mobile phone features, we'll be shocked if the Zune phone doesn't feature multitouch capabilities.
Wow, way to make my new-phone boner shrivel like a century-old prune. Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft. Did you not learn anything from yesterday's lesson? Are you trying to drop hints about a new phone or not? If so, this is how it's done:
Steve Ballmer: Zune phone? Who said anything about a Zune phone? Psyche -- gimme them digits, bitches! BA-DOW!
Remember Microsoft, I'm still available for hire.
Rumor: Zune Phone Is Coming to CES 2009 [wired]
Thanks to Ain, who doesn't need a cellphone because he has two tin cans and long piece of string in his treefort.
Reader Comments
1. known - December 11, 2008 3:21 PM
Just awesomenesssss
PS: Saying "FIRST" all the time is GAAAY
2. known - December 11, 2008 3:21 PM
..which means YOU for trying
PS - I love GW (T-shirt coming soon)
3. Daisy - December 11, 2008 3:23 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like the scene from the movie Never Back Down where Max made a phone call on his shoe.
4. Mayo - December 11, 2008 3:24 PM
I can't wait to find out what scene from Never Back Down this is like.
5. Pew³ - December 11, 2008 3:24 PM
Pew pew pew
I'm going to rush out and get a zune phone tatoo!
6. Mayo - December 11, 2008 3:24 PM
Too late.
7. known - December 11, 2008 3:25 PM
Daisy is ON it today, love it =)
PEWing - - still terribly gay
8. jib jab - December 11, 2008 3:27 PM
WRONG! ...sorry geekologie, but do some research..
This is old news. The geekologist writer should take a page from gizmodo and do some more research. The original news was speculation, and then people started to make crap up, and then it was said that there will NOT be a zune phone at CES, but rather, a Zune platform for windows mobile phones! Jebus......
9. You Got Trolled... - December 11, 2008 3:28 PM
.3 Daisy. Which shadows. God damn it. Which f***ing shadows are you referring to? And the only lame ass movie were someone talks in a shoe was Get Smart, and it was a peice of garbage and had no respect for the original. your comment angers me as much as LSDiesel's and Ollie William's stupidity!
10. jib jab - December 11, 2008 3:29 PM
oh, and yeah, this photo was never an official release. Duh it's photoshop... ya buncha idgets... ;P
11. wanatank - December 11, 2008 3:36 PM
@8 the article linked from WIRED was written yesterday, so maybe its happeninga after all. WIRED is usually up on their shite
12. known - December 11, 2008 3:42 PM
9: Get a clue already, Daisy comments on EVERY post about photoshopping and the uncanny relevance to your favorite movie Never Back Down just before making the reference to the movie by using an example from another movie. Got it yet?
13. Dirty Paul - December 11, 2008 3:48 PM
@12 - I figured it out. Trolled is the same person as the daisy imposter with the del taco, cardboard box and bacon ice cream.
14. known - December 11, 2008 3:55 PM
13: Then why can't Trolled post more stories about bacon flavored ice cream (off of Baja's chest mmMMm) in cardboard boxes at Del Taco while the wheel of fortune chatroom blows up instead of.....that?
15. Thumperchica - December 11, 2008 4:04 PM
What, no TokyoFlash post today? I figured GW would need the beer money...
16. ahha - December 11, 2008 4:19 PM
I am totally naming my first kid Trip Chowder. I didn't read anything past that guy's name.
17. Jo Mama - December 11, 2008 4:57 PM
Good call Thumper... Its not too late though..
18. Jo Mama - December 11, 2008 4:59 PM
Oh and pleeeeeease tell me this means the enema art guy is going to be the spokesman/ass. Who said art was dead!
19. You Got Trolled... - December 11, 2008 5:30 PM
@13. Nope. Thats not me. Pretty funny shit though tying all the relevance of recent shit together. I thought THAT person was the real Daisy. I was kind of hoping for posts including the spare tire joke but havent seen any.
20. Rob - December 11, 2008 6:26 PM
I love how it says phone. Because honestly, I've bought it and good heavens am I confused by all these numbers...
21. feckyouijizzinmypants - December 11, 2008 6:26 PM
FAKE~!~w@~w#e#@q OMFG ASOSOOOOOO FAKEKEKKEKSKEEE@!!!!!
22. Alienmanfromuranus - December 11, 2008 9:24 PM
IF this is real, it is the gayest thing I have ever seen. Why cant microsoft come up with their own ideas. First they copy Apples I-pod with that gay zune bullshit then vista which everyone knows rides the balony pony, now this fagaty phone. God be creative and come up with your own shit like a microsoft camara.
23. Defenestrator2.0 - December 11, 2008 10:20 PM
That looks like a great idea, absolutely top notch innovation on Microsoft's part. Honestly, who else but Microsoft could think of using an MP3 brand name to sell a phone? I think that it stands a good chance at being as successful as the Zune. Hell, I think it could sell even better! They could sell 4!
24. timmy the dying boy - December 11, 2008 11:51 PM
Like most people, I hate Microsoft, but I have to admit, having owned both, the Zune kicks the iPod's ass all the way around the block two or three times.
And where Daisy is concerned, click the link on the name, it's hilarious.
25. mugglesquop - December 12, 2008 2:55 AM
This has been known for a while, it is just Windows Mobile 6.5
supposedly going to be released by Feb '09
26. mugglesquop - December 12, 2008 2:57 AM
@ 22,
Windows Mobile has been around for many years, and manufactures such as HTC have been producing PDA Mobile Phones for years, when Apple released the iPhone, they just had the money to back marketing, hence the success.
27. Warren Piece - December 12, 2008 11:20 AM
Silly #24 - have you actually _used_ the iPod Touch or iPhone? Doubt you'd feel that way if you did
and silly #26 - yes marketing is ALWAYS key, however having the most advanced (by a looooong shot) mobile OS (essentially an optimized OSX, not dumbed down (windows mobile) definitely helps. Again, I'd say try one out and live with it for a while - I borrowed by friend's iPhone while he was vacationing, and it's sublime. Unlike anything else.
28. Ollie Williams - December 12, 2008 1:15 PM
@26
If you think the only reason the iPhone was successful was because of marketing, you're a moron.
29. Loehrer - December 12, 2008 5:37 PM
reply @3 DAISY!---
Of course it's photoshop you tit!? do you think that MS would show you what one looks like EXACTLY this early in it's inception. In marketing and design we do a little thing called planning. The investers like to know what something is going to 'look like' before he puts $$$ up for it. Not to mention the market research they will surely being doing to get the best product funtions and final look, so they can sell alot.
This is thing IS GOING TO be wicked!!!
30. Karen - December 12, 2008 7:25 PM
So iPhone-esque!!! It looks better though I'm going to ask my daddy for one for xmas!
XOXO
Karen
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