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Mark sent us this silly mockup of a zunePhone that his coworker made, complete with the signature commercial music for the iPhone (which is actually called "Perfect Timing (This Morning)" by Orba Squara, available on an iTS near you). What's up with that hand? Did he actually animate it using stills from the real commercials? If so, A for effort, even if it does end up looking a little strange.

The flashing 12:00 makes me laugh (as does what happens to the Polaroid after it's done developing), but otherwise, this phone is pretty much what you'd expect from Microsoft-- a blatant copy, only done messier, tackier, and much, much later. Good times.

Mark sent us this silly mockup of a zunePhone that his coworker made, complete with the signature commercial music for the iPhone (which is...
 

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nvidia2008

Yup. I was expecting a nice BSOD at the end. And SCUMM reference above in one of the comments, nice :-) ... How much wood would a woodchuck chuck... If only they hand Bill Gates' picture animated with a really fast-moving, funny looking mouth/lipsync ala Monkey Island 1

August 26 2007 at 6:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Firestarter

It's stuff like this that makes PC owners call us "pretentious douch-nozzles".

August 24 2007 at 2:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Peter

Now that was a funny way to start the day!

Love the old school flash cubes too, and I REALLY miss the old rotary dials, back when phones had real weight to them (you could kill someone by whacking them with a phone handset).

Simply put, very well done people! Thanks for the laugh

Pete

August 24 2007 at 11:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tony Santos

someone needs to build a rotary dialer app for the iPhone now...I'd so use that :-)

August 24 2007 at 11:32 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
abaronofsky@comcast.net

If iphone came with a rotary dial, I'd buy one immediately. :-)

August 24 2007 at 11:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Marcello

funniest thing is that probably sooner or later will come up with a iphone app with the rotor dialer and everybody will rant on how cool it is... :|

M

August 24 2007 at 8:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
basscadet

kinda cheesey and does not address the real issues: - BSOD and everyday mess with drivers/software,
- malware (not spam - my G5 gets spam like that viagra mail chain all the time)
- security

It would never have rotating dial or flash cube or polaroid prints but the camera app would simply be too buggy to use. and restart phone.

August 24 2007 at 5:08 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dani21h

missing BSOD at the end of the video :-)

August 23 2007 at 11:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stealth43

whats wrong period(.)? Havent had your M$ humor chip implanted yet?

I am impressed though. Its not every day a microsoft troll wanders in and figures out right away what TUAW stands for. I mean, its not like they have it spelled out at the top of the page...ohh.

Belay that.

August 23 2007 at 7:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Logan

Take that Microsoft!

August 23 2007 at 7:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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