Microsoft confirms Zune Phone on market well before iPhone
According to reliable sources Microsoft is expected to launch the Zune Phone in May 2007. Unfortunately images of the phone are not available at this time.
“The phone claims to support “consumer broadband access and networking,” this means that the phone will probably use OFDM standard as communication protocol and not Wifi. OFDM is a standard which one claims will be used frequently in 4G mobiles in the distant future.
Tech Crunch claims to have done some digging on this story and made the following interesting discovery “The idea of a next-gen, high-bandwidth capable phone sounded to these ears like the Zune Phone, so we did some poking, called some sources, and waded into the wonderful world of Zune. One thing led to another, and we’ve determined that there is a whole lot more going on at Bear Creek in Redmond than we figured.
With 3G on the rise, 4G is still the far future. With popular providers like T-Mobile still struggling to put out their 3G networks, anything beyond is sci-fi. A little digging, however, and we found this press release from August of last year, in which Sprint/Nextel announced its plans to build out a 4G network based on the IEEE 802.16e mobile WiMax standard. The 802.16 standards use OFDM, the exact same modulation protocol as the Microsoft device in the FCC filing.”
