We believe that the silly season has started in earnest as most news websites are beginning to report rumours as news instead of what is actually happening. And who are we at Absolute Gadget to buck this particular trend. Anyway, rumour has it that software behemoth Microsoft and mobile phone behemoth Nokia are collaborating on some type of Zune-enable raprod.

According to Zune fan website Zunescene (come on there has to be one!), the Finnish phone company is working with the team behind Zune on integrating Zune Marketplace content according to a "well placed source within Microsoft." (possibly a PR person reading the iPhone nano story and thinking about punting a spoiler story).

The rumoured development is aimed more at content delivery rather than a proper hardware device (so hopefully it won't run Windows Mobile). The source quoted in the story denied any knowledge of a possible Zune phone. "if there is a zune phone I don't know about it," said the unnamed source.

The rest of the story suggests that Zune will appear on a multitude of devices, such as the Xbox 360, mobile phones, PCs and possible even some kind of mp3 player, although we'd rather wait to see one of these mythical beasts before we believe it.

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