Zune mobile platform to take on Android?

This time though, it comes from respected tipster Paul Thurrott, who says that the “Pink” project everyone’s getting het up about isn’t a new phone, but in fact a whole new Windows Mobile OS.

Dubbed Zune Mobile, it will apparently find its way into a string of new devices in 2009, offering a more media savvy approach than the extreme business stylings of the current Windows Mobile platform.

Early screenshots of the new Windows Mobile platform also bear more than a passing resemblance to the Zune’s interface. Either way, it’s not only a bold new approach, but also a whole new front in Microsoft’s lengthy war with Google. Could this be their answer to the growing might of Android?

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Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home