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I can’t say I don’t agree. Just because Apple is doing the iPhone thing doesn’t mean for certain that Microsoft will turn the Zune into a phone. I am not saying I wouldn’t be interested, just that I don’t think it’s coming soon…

No Zune phone. Microsoft won’t release an iPhone competitor this year–at least not one with hardware designed by Microsoft. The company might release some sort of software update or client application that allows Windows Mobile users to play songs from the Zune Marketplace and transfer them from the Zune PC client software to their phones, but even that probably won’t happen until 2009. And it’ll sink like a lead balloon against v3 of the iPhone, at which point Microsoft will bend to the inevitable and start building its own phone from scratch.

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