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Hot of the heals of my recent post regarding the sad unexpected tragic departure of the product manager responsable for the weird dumb ugly music player offering from Microsoft - the Zune is a titter through the rumor sites suggesting that Microsoft if continuing to desperately pursue the iPod by planning to launch a Zune Phone by the end of this year.

Good luck Goldilocks is what I say to that.

Given the woeful effort to date from Microsoft on Windows Mobile Phones and the Zune itself, combining the two would seem like a recipe for a camel, i.e. a racehorse designed by a committee that does everything, but actually fulfilling no-ones needs.

The iPhone Jobsian aura that flashed out world wide from its epicentre at the Moscone Center on January, filling the blogosphee with more news and comment about the iPhone than about the State of the Union address (apparently), is finally subsiding and people are getting their perspective back at last†. And as we do, in the distance you can hear the sound of the pocket protector brigade in Seattle puffing and panting as they try and catch up with mountain bike fit Jobs and his team in Cupertino.

Personally I suspect that a Zune phone will be as appealing as losing ones virginity in a cement mixer to and angry swarm of bees

But I could be wrong. Bees are apparently quite sensitive lovers.

†Yes the iPhone is shiny, and YES I want one too, but 5 hours battery life? HEE-LOOOO!!