I think a Zune phone would be a great idea. Leave Windows Mobile to the hardware manufactures as a business platform since a lot of businesses like the fact that it looks like Windows 95 and take control of the consumer aspect.
There is no way Microsoft can make a consumer Windows Mobile where they control the hardware and software aspects of the device without upsetting the entire mobile world. That would be like shooting themselves in the face. However the Zune platform is an already established Microsoft consumer platform where it is already in the consumer minds and would make sense for Microsoft to extend that line.
Everyone made a big stink about the Zune being made fun of on Chuck a few weeks back but what they forgot to realize was the Zune was big enough as a product line that you can could rag on it on national TV and a large majority of the audiance would get the joke.
This is a good move for Microsoft if it happens and it is at a good time as well. Microsoft is starting to become boring but something like this can help make them exciting again... hopefully the web browser wont be IE6, thats all I ask
