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Price Cut for Zune. Phone in the Works?

by Tim Stevens on September 6, 2007 at 02:34 PM

Zune Price Cut, Phone Coming?In attempt to spur sales, Microsoft has just dropped the price of its 30 gigabyte Zune portable media player to $199. That keeps the player priced $50 lower than Apple's cheapest hard drive-based player -- the newly launched $249 80 gigabyte iPod Classic -- but still only offers less than half the storage. While announcing the price drop, Microsoft took the opportunity to also tout the Zune's high level of customer satisfaction (around 94 percent) and remind us that the player surpassed sales of one million back in June of this year.

The company also dropped some hints that a Zune phone might be in the future. Earlier this year, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer pooh-pooh'd the idea, but now MS officials have indicated that a Zune-branded mobile would "not be unreasonable." Non-committal words if ever there were ...

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