Nokia / Microsoft working on Zune Marketplace integration?

by Darren Murph, posted Aug 4th 2008 at 7:05PM

First things first: open wide and ingest a mouthful of salt. Put away that bitter beer face and down it, we said! Okay, now that you're adequately skeptical, get a load of this. Word on the street has it that Nokia is currently working with Microsoft in order to integrate the Zune Marketplace into the former firm's handsets. No, there's no talk of a Zune Phone here -- no new hardware at all, actually. Instead, it seems the two could be figuring out a way to offer Zune Marketplace content on Nokia's prolific "non-smartphones." Make no mistake, Nokia sells quite a few low-end handsets, and if the Redmond powerhouse could get its material on 'em... well, we're pretty sure you see where this could go. Oh, and we're totally not buying this until N-Gage pops up on the Xbox 360.

[Via Electronista]

Filed under: Handsets, Multimedia, Nokia, Others

Tags: digital downloads, DigitalDownloads, marketplace, microsoft, music, nokia, software, zune, zune marketplace, zune phone, ZuneMarketplace, ZunePhone

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SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread) @ Aug 5th 2008 1:54AM

how about on Windows Mobile phones.....or did i miss that one? my Zune 80 and Q9c would thank you.

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SuperSexyErik (^_^) @ Aug 5th 2008 2:46AM

i think nokia and Microsoft are quite capable of creating crap on their own, why join forces for the same cause?

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Razor1973 @ Aug 5th 2008 10:24AM

The article talks about integrating with non-smartphones, yet they post a photo of an N96. Hmmm...

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