Hearing the report of a possible Zune becoming just a mere application on a Windows Mobile phone makes me think of Propellerheads Reason – all the audio hardware gear becoming software. With the Zune, wasn’t it all software to begin with? And coming from Microsoft, that would most likely have been written with some flavor of the .NET framework. I seriously like the idea – get rid of hardware for software! However, there are also some major drawbacks to this that I can see. iPhones and iPods all have a serious amount of storage for music and videos. But how much space does one normally get on a Windows Mobile powered phone? The amount of NAND flash memory on most (if not all that I’ve seen so far) are laughable. How this will go will certainly depend on phone hardware manufacturers I would think. I like the idea, and I sure hope to see more oomph on a phone…say maybe a nice Intel Atom processor and a solid state drive…we’ll see how this goes if the Zune software app makes it to market.

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