Late last week, tech bloggers the world over went crazy with word of Microsoft filing an application with the FCC for a product that many were assuming was the oft-rumored Zune Phone. The FCC filing looks like a veritable who’s who of tech companies, listing a coalition of Microsoft, Dell, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Philips. Some news outlets took the application as evidence that Microsoft was working with some major players to make a Zune Phone for Sprint’s upcoming 4G network–and soon. Somehow Microsoft was working with other industry heavyweights to get out a phone in May–a month before the iPhone’s expected release–to work on a network that isn’t even built yet.

Luckily, some people read the FCC application and realized pretty quickly that the reason this whole thing seemed unlikely was because the filing was not actually for a mobile phone. When asked on the FCC application what the purpose of the device was, the companies responded:

To provide consumer broadband access and networking.

We do believe that Microsoft is working on a Zune phone, and would not be surprised if it was a 4G device for use on Sprint’s new network (once that network is ready), and we aren’t even ruling out an announcement in the next month or so, but this FCC application certainly isn’t it.

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