This new series represents an attempt by Microsoft to make up for its last few models of failed attempts at competing in the smart-phone market.
We haven’t heard much about the Zune media player (you remember the Zune, right?) since the debut of Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone 7, a revamped version of the old Windows Mobile platform that borrows heavily from the Zune user interface.
But the snazzy, touch-enabled Zune HD is still around — indeed, a 64GB version bowed back in March, while the older 32GB and 16GB models got price cuts — and now there’s chatter that Microsoft might have one more Zune up its sleeves.
This whispers began earlier this month, with ZDNet’s Mary-Jo Foley passing along the word of a single, "solid" tipster who claims that a new Zune might be on tap for 2011.
Details on the supposed new Zune are as scarce as they could be. For now, there’s nothing in the way of possible name for the rumored device (such as, say, the Zune HD2) or features, although Foley’s spy says that the player could come in the same three capacities as the current Zune HD — 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB — and that it might dump the Nvidia Tegra processor in the existing HD for an ARM-based chip.
Not much to go on, but WMPoweruser.com found a Microsoft job posting that might bolster the rumors: an open position for a senior mechanical engineer in Microsoft’s Portable Entertainment Group, the team responsible for last year's Zune HD. (WMPoweruser managed to peg many of the Zune HD's features well before they were officially announced.) via yahoo.com
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