Filed under: Humor, Multimedia, Odds and ends, iPhone
The zunePhone
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.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
PSM said 4:41PM on 8-23-2007
I LOL'ed. I'm sure someone will come on bitching about the amount of iPhone posts on TUAW, but that made my day.
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Iulius said 4:52PM on 8-23-2007
THat was actually pretty clever. I wonder if MS s at all interested in a zunePhone. Windows Mobile, while not as flashy as the iPhone UI, is pretty popular and powerful. With the zune MS turned their backs on the unpopular "Plays for Sure" brand. With a zunePhone, they run the risk of hurting the very popular Windows Mobile brand. I just don't see it happening...but I love my iPhone and generally think competition is great. (I also don't hate MS like some other Mac users)...
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Victor Agreda Jr said 4:53PM on 8-23-2007
There are far too many Zune posts on TUAW!
I love the 90's-era SCUMM-engine-esque hand though, nice touch. This was really funny, or I'm low on coffee.
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Hjalle said 4:57PM on 8-23-2007
zunePhone == Phune
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Fernando said 5:11PM on 8-23-2007
I don't know, this makes look like the iPhone battery doesn't runs out, or the "film doesn't runs out", even though it's 4/8GB of film, eventually it does end =P
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David said 5:12PM on 8-23-2007
That's funny! Reminds me of the iPod Microsoft spoof commercial that came from an internal meeting at MS.
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Adam said 5:33PM on 8-23-2007
What, no BSD :-O
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terran said 5:41PM on 8-23-2007
i love the cheap viagra part lol
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Eli Hodapp said 6:03PM on 8-23-2007
I love what a failure the Zune has become. It took 23 hours to sell out at Woot... selling for HALF its original MSRP.
L
O
L
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. said 7:30PM on 8-23-2007
I love how much Microsoft stuff TUA(pple)W posts.
A couple a months ago,
TUAW gave Vista more press coverage than anyone else, basically.
And the Zune...
We know nobody likes it,
and it's no iPod killer,
but if I wanted to read the same story ("Vista/Zune sucks") over and over again,
I'd read TUW(indows)W.
:(
Apple people tend to be so AppleCult.
Maybe that's why Apple doesn't own the computer industry.
People are scared to become like these people.
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cosimoto said 7:33PM on 8-23-2007
Funny, but I still like this one better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRLRjKCGHek
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stealth43 said 7:44PM on 8-23-2007
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.
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Greg G said 7:52PM on 8-23-2007
lol, pretty funny.
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dani21h said 11:17PM on 8-23-2007
missing BSOD at the end of the video :-)
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Logan said 11:46PM on 8-23-2007
Take that Microsoft!
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basscadet said 5:08AM on 8-24-2007
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.
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Marcello said 8:43AM on 8-24-2007
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
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Ari B. said 11:18AM on 8-24-2007
If iphone came with a rotary dial, I'd buy one immediately. :-)
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Tony Santos said 11:33AM on 8-24-2007
someone needs to build a rotary dialer app for the iPhone now...I'd so use that :-)
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Peter said 12:00PM on 8-24-2007
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
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