Zune Phone to come – iZune?

Published by Charl Norman on Feb 10th, 2007, 2 Comments

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CrunchGear�s Matt Hickey has been tracking rumors about a Zune phone for the last week. What began as a reliable tip is now a solid story: Last Monday Microsoft filed an application with the FCC for an enigmatic wireless device that could be used to talk over the Internet. The device is described as being used for �consumer broadband access and networking.� Microsoft goes on to say that the device would use OFDM as its communications protocol, not WiFi or Bluetooth. The standard OFDM (orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing) is a modulation scheme that is used widely in upcoming 4G standards of the future. Sprint/Nextel may be the carrier, since they are building out a 4G network that will work with the OFDM standard.

And the most interesting part of the story is that this device may be available in May, a month before the iPhone.

[Via: Crunch]

vic

For those who still don’t think that VoIP technology in cell phones won’t work, think again. Microsoft and Zune releasing this phone shows the aggressiveness of the the current telecom market.

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john

WTF are they trying to copy the iphone? I think microsoft is a great company but they try to copy the trend. Hey if i was them than i would too. VOIP is hot right now and http://t1buyersguide.com is capitalizing on profits.

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