First the Zune Phone then the Zune Tablet!

January 29, 2010 by sanjay

Just read this bit of sleuthing from a member of our sister site ZuneBoards and it seems to point strongly at the fact that Microsoft’s Project "Pink" is actually a phone device that syncs with the Zune software. Interestingly enough there are two mystery sub-classifications labeled "Turtle" and "Pure"- methinks Turtle is the phone that Gizmodo leaked pictures of a while back and that "Pure" might be the Zune HD tablet!

Microsoft has always taken a second-mover position by waiting for a market to develop then coming in with the Borg to dominate the market with a better thought out mouse-trap. Most recently they did this with their very succesful launch of Bing and those of you who are old-timers will remember a time when Borland’s Word Perfect was the leading word processing software and Visicalc reigned supreme as the spreadsheet of choice.

For the phone it would be easy to add dialing functions to the Zune HD, but I am hoping that they take a page from Apple’s playbook and make a hybrid OS for their tablet device. Basically a WinMo 7 and Zune HD combo that would allow for true full desktop functionality including multi-tasking.

We live in interesting times…

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Comments

jschneier

Administrator

If they came out with a Zune Tablet that had multitasking I would definitely prefer that over an iPad.

Everyone keeps saying that the iPad is "not meant to replace a laptop" and that multi-tasking is "not essential" and I just can't understand that mentality. If I am carrying a device that large then I am not going to be carrying my laptop. So in a sense I just want a simpler, lighter laptop and the iPad in its current incarnation is not that.

Maybe wishful thinking but I would definitely get on the Zune bandwagon if they would listen to what people are saying and make some adjustments.

01-30-2010, 12:09 PM jschneier is offline

EnzoTen

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jschneier

A Zune Tablet is just not part of MSs vision. When they do a tablet my guess is it will be a Windows 7/8 based device with full multitasking then Zune would be a app on it. They just need to hammer out a more finger friendly UI.

But as of now Zune works just fine on a tablet =)

photos via ABI

02-01-2010, 01:00 PM EnzoTen is offline

VicDelmonte Junior Member	UI that's gonna compete with Apple hasn't ever really been MS's strong point. And there is all that nasty brand-recognition to defeat too.
08-13-2010, 02:05 PM	#4