Zune is, if we are to believe the previous reports, the name of Microsoft’s coming iPod-killer and now further information about this creation has appeared that also refer to a portable Xbox. The new information was posted at the web site Think Secret, which published an article where they walk you through the future of Apple’s iPod family and its perhaps biggest competitor ever, Microsoft Zune. Those who connected Zune with the video game console Xbox may be more right than most people thought. Think Secret’s sources namely says that the portable unit will be equipped with a 400MHz SDP processor, more than enough power for handling sound and video playback.
This could mean that Microsoft also considers the possiblity of using Zune as a portable video game console, or at least give it some sort of gaming functionality. Except from a powerful processor the media player will be equiped with wireless network support and possibly even a satellite receiver. Would this information turn out to be correct this could turn out to be the first real battle on the “iPod market” and as Think Secret reports in the same article that the real iPod video will most likely be delayed until Macworld of January 2007 Microsoft still has some time to perfect its player.
