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Old 04-14-2008, 02:20 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Darth Camel View Post
Nope. No rumors or anything. Quite frankly, the interface (squircle/d-pad) really isn't well suited for text input, plus, I don't know if the hardware itself can handle a browser. If it can, it'd probably be some crappy watered-down mobile version.
actually the zune hardware itself (internal components etc) are more than enough for a fully functional web browser, zune is based on windows CE devices, which are PocketPC's, Windows Mobile systems, and so on.. Pocket PCs from the early 2000s which ran with <300Mhz strongarm CPU still had internet explorer.. and the zune has a 533Mhz freescale CPU (strongarm derivative) so the RAM, CPU, and even OS can handle the browser idea, but the lacking components is a data entry device or keyboard... and possibly a touchscreen, but if a simple keyboard were added via the usb interface or something, it'd be fully able to surf the web.



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