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Microsoft tried desperately and failed to catch up with iPod’s runaway success in the portable music market with its Zune offering. It seems that Microsoft is up and about to play the same catchup game with iPhone. According to the Inquirer:

WHAT DO YOU get if you take an Iphone, remove the clean UI, user friendliness, nice industrial design, battery life, cachet, functional OS, and in general everything else that makes it worthwhile? The new Microsoft phone, powered by Nvidia.

Yeah, you heard it right, MS is going to make its own branded phone, after all, everyone kicking the company around the block has one, so it should too! If you were wondering why Nvidia never mentions the phrase Linux when talking Tegra, even though it is the most appropriate OS for the chip, now you know. NV appears to have sold Linux out to get the MS flagship deal, how nice of them.

The phone is slated to be announced at 3GSM this coming February, so if you plan on attending, please look surprised when MS unveils it. No word on when it will hit the streets but it probably won’t be long after that.

Although we know the results of Microsoft’s Zune efforts, the outcome of this game of cat and mouse isnt decided yet, but we dont expect it to be any more successful than Zune.