Zune phone en route

by Ryan Block posted Sep 14th 2006 at 6:43PM

Zune, the music player; Zune the service; Zune, the software; Zune the lifestyle brand; Zune, the cellphone? The iPod beat Microsoft to the portable music device market by what, five years, so don't be surprised that it doesn't look like they're going to let Apple off so easily on a cellphone -- especially not while they've got a fighting chance. At a press conference today, Chris Stephenson, GM for Zune, told the press, "A Zune phone is definitely part of the future of this brand." We did definitely hear before that Microsoft was working toward setting up an MVNO, but even if that never takes off, there's no reason to believe the Zunephone won't spring to life irregardless. As much as we love our HTCs, let's just hope it isn't a Windows Mobile device given a facelift -- we all know that, like PlaysForSure, the problems with adapting off-the-shelf Microsoft stuff are more than skin deep.

[Thanks, Joel]

Filed under: Handsets

Tags: microsoft, zune, zunephone

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Casao @ Sep 14th 2006 10:19PM

Irregardless isn't a word.

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onlydarksets @ Sep 15th 2006 8:55AM

Thank you Casao - you beat me to it.

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Ed Hardy @ Sep 15th 2006 3:14PM

> let's just hope it isn't a Windows Mobile
> device given a facelift

I doubt it. Microsoft could have based the first Zune player on Windows Mobile, but it didn't. This makes me suspect that no Zune devices will use Windows Mobile, including the phone.

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rudelerius @ Oct 3rd 2006 5:00PM

Irregardless is a word. It is not commonly used or accepted, but it is a word. Look it up.
M-W.com states that:
"the most frequently repeated remark about it [the word irregardless] is that 'there is no such word.' There is such a word, however."
I'd bet you'd find it in the OED as well.

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onlydarksets @ Oct 4th 2006 8:42PM

Hmm... you've "cited" M-W.com. Argument must be over.

The point is that it's a nonsensical word, like a double negative. It means the exact opposite of it's intent.

I'll "cite" the American Heritage Dictionary:
Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir– prefix and –less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so.

So, it ain't no word. ;)

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fidgetwidget @ Oct 7th 2006 9:13PM

It is a word, its just as much a word as say 'f*ck' or 's*it', and is just simply a perversion of the language.

if its in the dictionary its a word, bite it.

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Amy @ Oct 12th 2006 1:24AM

Who cares if it's in the dictionary? They call it a shibboleth. What that means is that when you say it, educated people will know that you are uneducated. Adding a redundant morpheme doesn't make you sound smarter, but if you say "irregardless," you probably don't know what that means.

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locus @ Mar 6th 2007 8:50PM

irregardless of all that, a zune phone does look like a cool idea..

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cao @ Mar 7th 2007 4:15AM

^lmao.

anyways, how about we get off the topic of irregardless being a word or not. no offense directed to you, but if irregardless 'ain't' a word, then 'ain't' ain't a word either. makes sense? haha..

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