“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,” Demerjian reports.
Demerjian reports, “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. We think this ‘me too’ phone will have all the success of the Zune.”
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The Microtanic is rudderless and meandering around ever more wildly pinballing off icebergs.
Attention Windows Mobile phone makers: You’ve been PlayedForSure. Are you going to learn your lesson this time? Try googling “Android.”
Microsoft is not to be trusted. Microsoft will extoll the horizontal model until the day the defecate on their “partners” and go vertical – copying Apple yet again – with a Microsoft-branded “solution.”
“We have our strategy, we’ve got great Windows Mobile devices in the market today… I like our strategy. I like it a lot.” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO Ballmer laughs at Apple iPhone – January 17, 2007
Like Zune, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS is a joke.
And Microsoft’s branded phone will ultimately fail. iCal it.
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