Microsoft Zune Phone To Launch Next Month, Says Analyst

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Microsoft Zune Phone To Launch Next Month, Says Analyst

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In last couple of years, we have been hearing about Microsoft launching “Zune Phone”. But hopelessly Microsoft has been behind the mobile operating system game without being a competitor for iPhone and Nexus One. But then Microsoft claims that its mobile strategy is to offer software solution and not devices and even CEO Steve Ballmer once stated at McGraw-Hill media conference- “With Windows Mobile, we want to permit a range of hardware innovation, and yet, still have a pretty good experience end-to-end, with good applications, and we want the ability for software developers to target both a very high-end and a lower range or mid-range phone. And the ability to scale up and down, to work with multiple hardware vendors, to get a range of competition and innovation and price competition amongst the hardware guys is a big asset. It is certainly what our strategy is.”

However, Jefferies & Company analyst Katherine Egbert claims that Redmond is gearing up to launch a phone based on Windows Mobile 7.

According to allthingsd, Edbert stated -

Our recent industry checks indicate Microsoft will be debuting its own phone sometime in the next two months, “We expect the new phone to debut soon, at either the Feb 15-18 Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona Spain, or possibly at CTIA in Las Vegas one month later.” “We don’t have any information about the cost of the Pink phone, nor do we know what service providers might be partnered with Microsoft,” she explains.

As far as hardware is concerned, Egbert thinks the Zune Phone will be a Microsoft / OEM partnership, and features a 5MP camera and 720p video support. Let’s wait and watch what Microsoft has in store for us next month.

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