Zune Game Player

The Zune Phone has been a rumor for about two years and the Xboy or portable Xbox player has been a rumor for at least 5 years. Manythink there will never be a portable game player from Microsoft but lets be real. What choice does Microsoft have? Can they survive as a company without a strong prescience in the mobile market? I don’t think so. Mobile computing is the way of the future and the smartphone is going to become the portable computer of choice.

Microsoft is not known as an innovator and many of their products and services are a me too effort with many critics crying foul over plagiarism and copycat ideas coming from the worlds largest software company. the Zune was no exception. Since the Zune was announced we have seen lots of comments about the fact they are playing catch up to Apple and Sony in the portable media player market with the iPhone and PSP leading in areas where Microsoft has little to no representation.

When they released Zune many of us were hopeful for what the futire held for them and we were excited about the potential for Microsoft handheld devices. That’s when the rumors started and things have been building ever since. You can read a partial timeline of the Zune phone announcements here for more details on the rumors but little has been said about an actual device until now. We knew that when Microsoft bought Danger they would be releasing a phone but no specifics. When they brought games to Zune we got even more excited because we could see that they understood what we wanted but still no game player

Now we may be taking the first steps towards an actual device. The latest rumors have Microsoft working on an all in one smartphone and game player using the Nvidia Tegra chip. The current story is that the new device will be more of a game player with phone features which may be what they need to invigorate the existing Xbox fanbase. A Microsoft portable game player has been the dream of a million Xbox fans since they introduced the first console years ago and its been a recurring rumor and joke just as long. The rumored new player is said to be primarily a game player and the Nvidia Tegra chip is the perfect fit for what we hope to see in our new Zune.

The rumors have been picked up by other tech sites and they seem to make sense to others as well. Just about everyone expects Microsoft to enter the mobile phone market with some sort of device that will allow them to compete with their own OS and the existing line of Windows Mobile Devices. By building their smartphone under the Zune brand and by the new super chip they may stand a chance against the iPhone and the Apple Apps store which just hit the 300 million apps downloaded mark. Some suggest they take on another acquisition by purchasing an existing provider such as RIM and building upon what they have already done but that’s an expensive option and it won’t guarantee success anyway.

I think the rumors make some sense to me. The Inquirer sets the new Zune phone game player release date as February 2009 but that’s not very likely in my opinion. I think they will make an announcement at some point early next year but they phone will not be ready until Holidays 2009. We will be getting a Zune phone and it may have the new Nvidia Tegra chipset but its going to a full year before I am playing games on my portable Microsoft device.

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