“Project Pink is Microsoft’s secret new phone, their first major phone play since the iPhone. Here are the first pictures of Pink phones, Turtle and Pure,” Gizmodo reports.
MacDailyNews Take: Some secret. And, why is Microsoft so scatological? First with brown Zunes and now they invite people to fill in the blank: Pure —-. And, “Turtle?” Try some fiber. What are they drinking up in Redmond?
GIzmodo continues, “These phones are going to be made by Sharp, who’ll get to share branding with Microsoft. Sharp produced the Sidekick hardware for Danger, who was bought by Microsoft two years ago… Turtle looks like a chunky child’s version of a Palm Pre, while Pure seems like a standard slider, and both are clearly plastic, with an overall sense of roundedness.”
MacDailyNews Take: Ooh, look, tiny antiquated plastic keys! Old, with an overall sense of roundedness; do they dance, sweat, and scream, too?
Gizmodo reports, “It’s been reported elsewhere that Pink phones will include Zune services, and have its own app store, making it as close to the Zune phone as we may get.”
Full article, with larger images, here.
MacDailyNews Take: Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to compete with iPhone, son.
Microsoft pedophile attack
Maybe there will be a Barbie Edition!
They need something to sell in those new Microsoft stores! Watching MS fail is such fun.
Microsft is regressing they’re travling back in time like four years ago.. I don’t get it.
pathetic…
All this does is PROVE what an also-ran Microsoft is. Have they EVER had an innovative idea of their own? I swear, they are the Japan of computing, just copying everything.
I take that back, that’s an insult to Japan.
One day someone is going to take out Microsoft like Reagan did the Soviet Union, leaking a rumor of a hideously expensive fantastic device and watch them bankrupt themselves trying to copy it….
Rename it the Turdle.
And the boom you just heard was the sound of Microsoft apologists getting their rude awakening. Sheesh.
There are plenty of people who want a phone that is not an iPhone or Blackberry. These may sell well to those who think a $300 laptop is a bargain. There are plenty of people around that have this WalMart mentality.
Let’s not get overly arrogant just because we have the Maserati of phones. Ford is still doing fairly well.
Is that the new Palm Pure? I thought they were going out of business.
Nice Animal House reference, MDN!
My cousin was going to get one of those clunky I-Phones until I sent him the link to this article about Microsoft’s impressive new phones. He’s going to stick with his trusty Windows Mobile-based Palm until these are available and then make his decision.
I know you MAC sheep don’t want to hear it, but the button-challenged I-Phone from beleaguered MAC has met its match.
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I wish Apple made more products like this. The Turtle is actually nice hardware, easy for a kid to hold and sturdy. It is just running crap software.
>> Turtle looks like a chunky child’s version of a Palm Pre
So, they figured out a way to make it taste like a chocolately, caramelly ice cream treat? Way to take advantage of childhood obesity!
product.
Strange, I really thought they would add phone to the Zune HD,
I’d still stick with iPhone , but think a Zune phone wkd be better than this stuff
I can see some sweet fixes coming up, down the road of my tech news addiction. As we here all know, it’s the best when the enemy crap their pants in public.
D E Dilger wrote about this some time ago. How Microsoft will launch their own brand phone out of necessity, thereby repeating their partner-back-stabbing history, and how that may hurt Microsoft more than we can imagine when it coincides with a possibly weak and apparently ridiculous launch of Windows 7.
Here, hold my beer while I go have a nerdgasm.
Overheard at the Microsoft Research Lab.
How can we make more money today. I know, let’s make a device for kids manufactured out of cheap plastic with lots of small plastic parts that break within days. Then require buyers to get a two-year phone contract when they buy the device.
Within a week the device breaks and is unusable, but the buyers are on the hook for two years of phone service payments, of which MS gets a hefty cut.
Brilliant!
“…with an overall sense of roundedness…”
Easy on the sphincter.
You are in for a surprise! These are not the phones. My friend works for mS and confirmed these to be fakes.
Interesting. The shapes, materials, and aesthetics of these devices are nothing new. They don’t scream “Buy Me” at all.
I don’t think that Microsoft is going after any particular market except for cheap smart phones. That is where Microsoft competes best — cheap, unoriginal, and plastic. This is their only way to compete is to not directly go for the iPhone’s market (which they know they cannot duplicate the design, App Store, nor iTunes). So, go for the lower tiered smart phone market.
That’s exactly what they are doing.
@Just Wait
(sorry, gonna stop laughing first)… ehrm… Yeah, they better be fake.. I mean this is…. LOL !!!
If you ever watched the show “Greg the Bunny” you’ll remember that the turtle character’s name was Tardy, as in retarded, and that’s exactly what this is retarded.
Definitely Fisher-Price.
“The Turtle is actually nice hardware, easy for a kid to hold and sturdy.”
How can you possibly reach this conclusion with the information presented? Sturdy? You can determine that from a 140px image?