“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.
Hmmmm, chicklety keyboard and separate horizontal screen:
I suspect Microsoft simply looked at what people are talking about and buying, and tried to predict the future purchase habits of their Wal-Mart-minded consumers.
At the Microsoft board meeting:
“Hey, people are buying smaller and smaller Net Books! Let’s make an even smaller Net Book and jump to the lead of this consumer trend!”
I don’t think they’re phones.
I think they’re Microsoft’s versions of even-smaller “Net-Books”.
Ballmer’s Press Conference:
“It’ll do email. It’ll do web-surfing.
It’ll do.”
My 11 year old great niece has an iPhone — a gift from one of her grandmothers. Her 4 year old brother was able to use my iPhone just fine for his age. An entire generation will know the joy of a phone without a beard of keys.
If I were in charge of Microsoft, I’d want those crap phones to remain secret for as long as possible too!
MDN: “do they dance, sweat, and scream, too?”
ROFL! Thanks for the Th. morning laugh.
@ MadMac
Yea, I think you have it just about right with the “WalMart mentality” comment.
The phones don’t seem to be that bad. (compared with the non-iPhone competition) Just not what you would expect from a company the size of Microsoft. Not a groundbreaking design, just . . . copying . . . the tried and true design of others.
The MDN take was a little over the top, it also lacked innovation.
I thinks they are going for so ugly it’s cute. Microsoft…Bringin the ugly!
All together now: “For as long as it takes!”
Wow, they weren’t smart enough to even use the same size screen?
“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.”
isn’t that the new MS slogan? “the walmart of the tech world, get your cheap plastic shit here!”
I’d rather have a Cricket!
But they are black….not pink!
I like turtles…
Swap phones when you want to switch from portrait to landscape.
“Project Pink is Microsoft’s secret new phone, their first major phone play since the iPhone. “
Gee like from that sentence it almost sounds like Mircrosoft made the iPhone.
It’s like saying
“Windows 7 is Microsoft’s new operating system, their first major operating system play since Vista.”
Sly reporting.
Kylie will like them
They probably are fakes; they don’t look like last year’s Apple product. This is microsoft R&D;we’re talking about.