Zune Phone release date coming soon

The Zune Phone looks one step closer with an announcement that Microsoft has filed with the FCC for a wireless device that allows voice communication over the internet. It’s the Zune Phone some say and I think they are probably right. They’ll probably do what they can to answer Apple with their top products and iPhone is a big one. Following them with their own phone is exactly what Microsoft needs to be working on right now and it seems they have been on it for some months now. If the timeline they used to bring the Zune to market says anything then we know Microsoft can get the Zune release date for Holiday 2007 easy.

Microsoft must have learned somethign with the Zune launch and should be able to elarn from theeir mistakes on that. A Zune Phone may be a more ambitious marketing campaign because of the heated competition iPhone is making. The Apple phone has grown out of proportion and to many are gaga over it. I expected more in the way of capacity at least but maybe it’ll be a better deal when the price drops considerably.

Microsoft files with FCC to test what may be Zune phone - MarketWatch

A filing that Microsoft Corp. submitted Monday to the Federal Communications Commission suggests the technology giant will likely add phone service to its line of hand-held media players, now known as Zunes.
According to the filing, Microsoft and other firms will submit for the agency’s approval a prototype of a wireless device that could be used to talk over the Internet. Apple Inc. made a similar filing, although chose a different technology, in advance of announcing its iPhone in January.

Microsofts 4G wireless smart internet phone

The Microsoft smartphone will use OFDM (orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing) whihc is the modulation scheme used in the 4G standards. According to Crunchgear this new phone should be cutting edge and fast. Let’s hope it works.

If this all fits together, it looks like MS is working on a mobile WiMax-enabled Zune Phone, which would have download speeds of up to 2Mbps, fast enough for the Xbox-to-Zune streaming we’ve heard about, and fast enough for just about anything else the Zune Phone might be used for.

On August 8th 2006 Sprint announced plans to build high-speed fourth-generation wireless network based on 802.16e mobile WiMAX. This would make them the first US Carrier investing in the new technology.

4G is all about lighting up devices, like portable game systems, digital still and video cameras, DVD and MP3 players, diagnostic devices and navigations systems and devices you probably don’t think about linking wirelessly to the Internet today,” explained Forsee

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