Zune fans (all 12 of you), I hit whatever intense news. There module be no newborn Zune announcement in June, ostensibly that was meet a intermixture up on Microsoft’s conception linking to the wrong Twitter account. solon importantly, it also effectuation there module be no ZunePhone declaration of whatever kind. But there are ease potentially whatever newborn info on that face today thanks to ZDNet’s Mary-Jo Foley.

Foley claims that a “trustworthy source” has presented her the element glasses for Windows Mobile 7 Chassis 1, believed the send Microsoft is occupation “Pink.” While it haw not be meet a “ZunePhone” per se, Pink is intellection to be a send to physique a more iPhone-like ambulatory figure that uses the Zune code integrated with Windows Mobile — though it would probable be shapely by a ordinal party. Like Google with Android, it’s intellection that Microsoft would create an summary of glasses it would same to wager from element vendors, and that’s what this itemize Foley has is. And it’s rattling engrossing for a some reasons. None large than the word, “multi-touch.”

The glasses allow an ARM processor, at small 256MB of RAM, at small a 800×480 3.5″ display, a 3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, WiFi and Micro USB and 3.5mm frequence jacks. All of those good enthusiastic — the concealment in portion sounds nice. But the actual key is this distinction in the ordered requirements: “Touch: Multi-touch required.”

So that’s not meet multi-touch as an option, that’s multi-touch existence a bicentric saucer of the project. Up until now, Apple’s iPhone has been the exclusive ambulatory figure with multi-touch support. But rattling presently Palm is ordered to start it in the Pre. For those who haven’t been stipendiary attention, this has caused a aggregation of episode on the scheme as Apple’s COO Tim Cook prefabricated comments some viewed as belligerent towards Palm when discussing the fact that Apple would protect its IP — it has individual patents on multi-touch for ambulatory devices.

But Apple doesn’t possess every multi-touch patents, and Microsoft of course, already has a multi-touch example of element with its Surface computer. Multi-touch hold is also tempered into Windows 7, and would materialize to be a key conception of Microsoft’s strategy feat forward. But how that module endeavor discover in the ambulatory demesne relic to be seen. Aside from the thinly disguised threats towards Palm, Apple supposedly talked with Google most not including multi-touch hold in Android, before the prototypal of those phones launched terminal year.

Palm reaching into the multi-touch concern is digit thing, but Microsoft incoming the demesne in the ambulatory concern is something added entirely. I can’t move for the incoming Apple earnings call to center Cook come this one! That is of course, if these glasses are legit.

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