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Microsoft announced that a Zune-branded phone was part of its upcoming Zune range on the 14th Sept (thursday) and the media was graced with a presspack for the Zune and the launch itself, along with a whole lot of information.

Since then, it's all been a bit dull. The press embraced it at first and then started ditching it in favour of more iPod articles. Well... The iPod is just as good, if not better but too bad its missing a FM Tuner!

But the fact that Microsoft is releasing a Zune Phone might be the key to their victory as it will be a great phone to carry into boardrooms too. That is something people have speculated about with Apple for a while, and just the other day, Apple filed a patent for a similar device. It's possible that they might try and crash the Zune Phone launch in January like they did with the Zune launch the other day. Not much info about the phone is known, except that with it, Microsoft are trying to target a large range of people. Businessmen, music lovers, public transport users, the rest of the world. Music on a phone with Windows Mobile 5? Just be ready to do soft resets weekly.