Zune Phone concept

[JJohnson]

Two mock-up screens I did for a Zune phone. I apologize for the crudeness of the two screens - I cannot do Photoshop for the life of me, and I couldn't find the real Zune FF/Rew buttons for picture 2. If someone wants to help me out with this, please do, and we can compare notes.

Specs:
screen: 4", 640x480 VGA resolution, capacitive touchscreen under glass; auto-rotation, Surface multi-touch capable.
Sensors: accelerometer, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor
GPS: GPS and compass built in
Audio: mp3, wma, aac, mp4, lossless
Video: avi, wmv, mpg, mpeg, divx, xvid, flv
Camera: 5MP, flash, auto-focus, onscreen controls for fine control
Memory: 32GB flash, SD-card slot up to 16GB extra
Battery: 5 hour talk, 36 hour audio playback, 6 hour video playback
Dimensions: 4.6" x 2.6" x 0.52"; 4.9 ounces
Language support: English, French, Spanish, German; language packs installed via Zune Update
Buttons: Zune up-down-left-right-enter pad, dial/hangup buttons on bottom, back and play-pause buttons
-Email supported: POP3 , IMAP4; Exchange Server
-Cell phone bands supported: WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM 850/900/1800/1900
-Wireless technology: IEEE 802.11b , IEEE 802.11g , Bluetooth 2.0 EDR; wireless synch over the air
-Messaging technology: SMS (T9 predictive input, threaded conversation arrangement), MMS
-Browser support: Java, flash; plugins work in a 'protected mode' if installed to prevent phone crash; if computer portion crashes, phone portion still operates
-Input: onscreen keyboard; onscreen phone-pad with prediction; stylus handwriting recognition (stylus not included); external keyboard
-Voice dialing and one-button dialing (press green phone button on phone to bring up phone app, then press and hold a number to dial a favorite set to that number)
-Bluetooth A2DP;

Installed Programs:
Office Mobile: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, OneNote (for note-taking)
RSS Reader - sync with Outlook feeds
Zune Player: audio, video playback, including flv videos
E-Book Reader
PDF/XPS Viewer
Radio
Calendar
Contacts
Clock (with multiple time zone support for traveling)
Picture viewer with slideshow creation support
Camera (still shots; video recording)
Voice Notes (for voice notes and audio recording, say a meeting)
Ringtones (make ringtones from your mp3s)
Stocks
To-Do List
Weather
Solitaire
Reversi
Library (like in Windows 7): shows all audio, video, e-book, documents, ringtones in their own categories; the media player will not search for ringtones by default.
-Video: sort by category: movie, TV show (series, season, episode), music video, podcast (it actually puts into separate folders in memory to achieve sorting, not editing file)
-Audio: standard sorting options; ringtones appear separately from podcasts and music
-et al

Interface - tap red X to exit an app, bringing it to the background; tap+hold to exit app and close it out of memory
-cut and paste - drag your finger over some text, and tap+hold to bring up the context menu, select cut or copy. move the cursor somewhere else and tap+hold to bring up the context menu, and tap 'paste'. why can't the iPhone manage that?
-text message forwarding
-haptic feedback - can be turned on or off
-rate tracks and video by tap+hold and drag fingers over the five stars to rate; auto-playlists will generate based on your ratings, and the Zune software can get you to discover new music with the Zunepass.

Models: 16GB $299, 32GB $399; with plan: $169 16GB, $249 32GB

*under the settings menu, you can change the size of program icons from small (5 in a row), medium (4 in a row), to large (3 in a row); appearance (icons, tiles/iPhone-ish, Win7-style)
*in the Library, you can view your video under categories: TV Show, movie, Music Video, Podcast; in TV shows, you can view them as tiles or banners, like the TV Database has for the show. Within the banner you see the number of individual shows or whole seasons you have of a show. I'll draw up a few rough ideas of it shortly.

Let me know what you think of the Zunephone, and if you'd buy it.

James

 

[JJohnson]

The attached today screen shows the concept "Tiles" that place the most relevant information for you on the Today screen; you can have Date/Time, Mail, Message Alert, Missed Call Alert, Appointments, Media Player, Weather, To-Do, and Voice-Mail Tiles; these give you quick access to updated information that you find most useful to you. The ZunePhone starts on your today screen by default, but you can press the start button and go to programs at any time, or have a 'programs' icon on the today screen if you want.

-In the Media Player tile, you can see the album art, the title of the song playing, tracks in the album, and pause, go back, and go forward. If you tap and hold on the media player tile, you can get a context menu to go into the Music Library. Tap the album art to see the track listing.
-In the appointment tile, you can flick left or right to see other appointments. Tap and hold to edit one appointment. Tap the appointment icon to open your calendar, focused on that appointment
-In the missed call tile, you can see who called you recently, if that person left a message, and the time they called. Tap once to call back; tap+hold to bring up a context menu to see contact info, say, to dial an alternate number for the person, or see the contact history - such as five calls between the two of you and 10 messages in the last 3 days. Flick left and right on the tile to see more missed calls, or simply tap left/right arrows.
-In the mail tile, see new messages as they come in, and if the mail icon is on the QuickBar at the bottom, you see the number there also. Flick through the mail message titles to see what's come in. Tap on a message to open that message.
-On the right of the today screen you see four icons for programs you frequently use, or those you 'pin' to the today screen. Tap them to open the program and start working. The weather icon will open the 5-day forecast, and it is a 'live' icon - the icon will always show you the hi-lo for the day, the current temperature, and the current weather conditions
-you can change the tiles you show at any time in the control panel, under Today Screen: Tiles. You can make them thinner or thicker (default is four tiles evenly spaced; you can have three, four, five, or six tiles vertically, and one or two horizontally) Tiles can be side-by-side or single (single tile can be half-screen, 3/4 or full width across)
-In the weather tile, you get the full 5-day forecast plus today's weather highlighted

On the Quickbar, which is always present unless you're in a program and have set programs to 'hide the quickbar,' you can have 3, 4, or 5 icons across for easy access. By default, the phone, mail, calendar, and Zune are there, but you can put any and all icons there that are core OS apps: Contacts, Calendar, SMS, Mail, Phone, Camera, Zune

You can change Quickbar icons in the Control Panel, under themes or under the Quickbar setting itself

(Apologies for the crudeness of the photo-manipulation. I have no Photoshop skills to speak of; the concept however, is what's important.)

 

[Captain Intrepid]

Looks like an iPhone except ugly and cluttered. Pretty accurate redition of something M$ would put our then I'd say.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Buttons?

 

[Mr. B]

A Zune phone would have the Zune music player interface.

 

[JJohnson]

This is the default start menu. by default at top it shows active programs - Zunephone can have programs running in the background while you work on other things, hence the media player tile on the today screen;

On the start menu underneath the active programs, you get the programs, library (for media), games, settings, and help. In settings, you can add things to the start menu, such as 'Office Mobile' to take you to the office program section; Music, Videos, Podcasts, and Documents to open the respective Libraries, Communications for SMS, MMS, and Email combined library; You can create your own library to add to the start menu if you want to do so as well, under Settings>Start Menu

(Again, I apologize for the crudeness of the graphic - I only have MS Paint. Just use your imaginations)

 

[Tiberius Jim]

*sigh* I thought this was going to be real.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Shouldn't this be more in the art forum?

 

[Tiberius Jim]

Hardly. That forum is for Trek art. This is neither Trek, nor art.