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'Zune phone' patent application surfaces in series of tubes

By on 19 April 2007, 9:45am

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Crave US: There have been plenty of Zune 2.0 rumors recently -- flash memory, a 'watermelon' version this summer, and what-have-you. Now here's another one to add to the pile; Engadget recently pointed us to a 'Zune phone' interface patent application unearthed by Mad4MobilePhones.

It appears to be a sort of 'tiled' setup for for "improved user interface for mobile devices such as smartphones" and "personal digital assistants." Looks like a fancy Bingo card to me.

Engadget pointed out that some of the icons appear to point to weather, music, and the like. There's also a TV icon with rabbit ears (umm, online video?), a globe (mobile Web?), a shopping cart, and...a dog? From the looks of it, it definitely looks like a Microsoft answer to the iPhone.

Concrete Zune phone rumors started flying around a few months ago. And keep in mind that Microsoft has filed other applications involving wireless communication over a 4G WiMax network. Hmmm...

Anybody else think that Microsoft plants rumour fodder in an attempt to deflect from the recent onslaught of Apple rumours? Sneaky, sneaky Steve Ballmer!- Caroline McCarthy

Source: Crave US on CNET.com

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