“Apple did it. Google did it. Now it’s Microsoft’s turn,” Scott Moritz reports for TheStreet.com.
“The Redmond, Wash., software giant is working with computer hardware manufacturer Asustek to build its own phone,” Moritz reports. “The planned device is a so-called candy bar touchscreen design running on Microsoft’s newly introduced Windows Phone 7 operating system, says Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar, who talked with Microsoft’s suppliers and design partners.”
Moritz reports, “Microsoft and Asus have encountered some setbacks on the road to manufacturing the next Apple iPhone killer or Google Android annihilator. Production of the phone has been stopped temporarily. ‘The phone is still alive,’ says Kumar, but its arrival to the market will now probably be put off until early next year.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Yawn.
but….i thought it was the next big phone thingy..didn’t they just announce it?
maybe i should do that at work. delays delays…opps, still doesn’t work…and i still have a job?
What a suprise, a Microshat product delayed.
Shocking… I tell you!
As long as it can stream Pandora that’s all that really matters.
I wonder if it’ll ship with BSOD wallpaper
Even M$ wouldn’t begin to manufacture a phone this early for a holiday release. I call BS.
OMG I hope monkey boy is dancing on the home screen!!!
Didn’t ballmer go on one of his sweaty rants about people wouldn’t want to use a touchscreen keyboard and how business users wouldn’t want to type with an iPhone?!?!?!?!?
@R2
Wait, are you the REAL R2 (as you’re not a registered user) or are you just being sarcastic???
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Another DOA iPhone killer. yawn
you apple fan boys are missing the point: Balmer works for Apple.
Three years late and they can’t even plagiarize well…pitiful
Well what does Harold have to say about this? Kumar can’t always be right.
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If MS really builds this, their screwing their partners again! Hilarious.
Aw, shucks. How on earth will the world cope?
@ R2
I have read that the new “Windows Phone 7 Series Super HD” will be able to stream Pandora while your surf for porn and go poo-pee at the same time. Happy now?
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Plays for sure.
To think once they could freeze a market by just mentioning they had something coming out. Partners waiting on their every breath.
Now it’s just sad. Balmer comes out and give’s his pitch and within a couple days they are already delaying it.
No one in the market actually cares anymore what MS say’s, really. It’s almost painful to watch, I almost feel sorry for them.
But I can handle it.
Only Microsoft would call a phone without windows a Windows Phone
I think some of you are missing the point. Windows 7 Phone System (or whatever their naming committee came up with) isn’t (yet) delayed; the MS implementation of it in their own phone is.
Although I’ve been lusting for an iPhone ever since it was rumored to exist, do you wanna know why i still have a Windows Mobile 6 phone?
Because I can use it as a WiFi router on Verizon’s EVDO 3G network on an unlimited data plan with no data cap.
It’s really not sooo bad once you get used to using a stylus (I never use the slide-out keyboard), frequent freezes and crashes, and frequent reboots to free up lost memory for applications to load. I can’t wait for the new Windows 7 phone on Verizon (not).
Delays for Sure™.
LETHARGIC!!!
If you didn’t see my post in an earlier, it’s an antonym of SNAPPY…
Whenever M$ announces a product, you can expect a follow-up announcement about delays. It’s gotten to the point where the only thing they excel at is blowing rings of vapor. If investors were to use their investment dollars to vote for innovative companies, Redmond would be in a lye-covered pit. As it is, the infection that is Windoz, Office and Server prop up this bloated, rotting monument to lock-in and FUD.
I hope it comes with the slew of viruses and mallware that windows users seem willing to put up with, then again they are used to that stuff I guess.
If no one believes the announced time table, is the product really delayed?
WAIT! LATEST NEWS RELEASE!
ASUS PHONE WILL SHIP IN 1 MONTH!
COME TO PARTY 3/21/10
BYO-OS
I’m still asking: Why do they even bother?
Using a Verizon 3G phone (on a standard @$30 unlimited data plan) as a WiFi router is probably a violation of the TOS, because “tethering” in any form is explicitly prohibited.
The manufacturer probably discovered the software is making calls on hardware that cannot be implemented without inviting a patent dispute.
Back to the drawing board Ballmer T Clown.
wow, why wasn’t this the part of the big Barcelona announcement?
I guess they got home and… something didn’t quite sit right..
This is realy a good business move — wait a year to see if anyone bits!
There goes the prime year-end holidays selling period.
@R2
From what I’ve read, WinMob7 won’t support multi-tasking. Sorry Charlie.
Don’t even bother! MS will never catch up, how many apps does iPhone have?
I think “Windows Phone 7 Series” itself will be delayed. That means Microsoft screwed their WinMo partners by pulling a Pre and killing sales of their existing WinMo 6.5 products for at least the next year. At least Palm was kind enough to only kill sales their own products. Nice move, Microsoft. The “industry” thanks you…
I supposed it’s good news that there are not very many WinMo phones left to kill.
And if Microsoft wants a fresh start, they should remove the word “Windows” from the name; association with Windows is NOT a good thing. It doesn’t even make sense to call it “Windows,” because the GUI is not based on using “windows.” Also remove “Series,” because it adds no value (meaningless), unless higher word-count in the marketing material has value. And remove “7,” because it has very little in common with the previous WinMo 6.5, and nothing in common with Windows 7.
“Windows Phone 7 Series” sounds like a name some Congressional committee created to appease everyone on the committee.
Microsoft just heard that a new iPhone was coming out in June or July. So they decided to hold off a little longer, Microsoft innovation is not easy if they can not see the new iPhone.
Look, watch, and copy! Microsoft Innovation.
Doesn’t “iPhone killer” have to be in quotes? I don’t think we’ve seen the FIRST iPhone killer yet, only pretenders to the title. And why do all these journalists think the iPhone has to die in order for other phones to reach the market?
Win 7 Dwarfs is a fairy tale, best read to sleepy children on NyQuil.
Awww, R2 you’ll have to wait till 2011 to stream Pandora.
The manufacturer assumed that the phone would be called Windows 7(version) Phone like its predecessors, but when MS came back with the call for Windows Phone 7, it threw a wrench in the production and the code caused a confusion in the OS kernel whereupon it cannot identify itself to its hardware.
The next iPhone killer? What was the previous iPhone killer?
Delayed in order to make it brown like the original zune.
The 2011 update is just to catch up to Apple’s 2009 iPhone OS. By the time 2011 comes around, Apple will be so much more ahead ahead. The Tortoise and the Hare game continues.
Microsoft phone transcript, 2011:
Idiot buyer: “Hey let’s call Dave and get some pizza!”
[dials Dave] brrrrrrrrrrr . . . . .
Microsoft: “Please speak or enter your registration identification now. Please speak. Please. Now. Enter. Your. Please. Would you like a wizard? Please. Enter me. Now. Speak. Violation 134442. Please. Now.
Idiot buyer: Oh, shit. Dave is dead.
“As long as it can stream Pandora that’s all that really matters.”
Are you on lithium?
Scott Moritz is a hack. It wouldn’t surprise me if this is true but you can’t count on Mortiz for anything.
The moniker “Windows Phone 7 Series” speaks volumes, at full volume, of the volume of effort that the voluminous Ballmer, that volatile vole of Redmond, vociferously vocalized in Barcelona.
Methinks Ballmer is
“a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.” — with apologies to Willi S
I don’t get why they show something off, and then delay it a year…..or longer. People don’t like that, and the way the market and tech is, it will kill you…….
I call BS. Look at what was reported: “Production of the phone has been stopped temporarily.”
Production? Of a phone that was supposed to hit the market in time for Christmas? Not hardly. They’d have prototypes by now – and clearly they do, since they were showing them off – but they wouldn’t be in production to build stuff that can sit on a shelf and rot for 8 months until they ship it. No way, no how.
Plus, the reporter is Scott Moritz, who’s approach to journalistic integrity is to sneak up on it in the dead of night and try to choke the life out of it.
And in other news: today I had some fried chicken, but I’ve postponed having any potato salad until next week. I just thought everyone should know.
And I’d like everyone to know that I took a sh!t today and wiped left handed today just to change it up a little.
They are waiting for iP4 so they can copy it
Which partners would be interested to jump on the Window Phone platform since now Microsoft is going to compete with them directly by producing its own hardware. Remember the PayforSure fiasco with the Zune MP player crushing its partners into the dust?
As for the Microsoft phone would you think Microsoft would look kindly on any of its partner’s phone upstaging the emperor?
The Windows 7 Phone isn’t late,
the world is just early.
The thing is, when m$ goes under there are a lot of box makers that will not survive. Now stop and think what this means to the computer industry as a whole. This is big, I mean real big.
Anyone owning AAPL will be very rich. Anyone not owning AAPL will not be able to buy it. Hang on to ALL of your Apple stock. Buy and hold indefinitely.
There was such criticism about copy & paste on the iPhone that they figured they better get it working before they ship a phone. It’ll be 2012, easy.
I heard MS doesn’t think C&P;is really that important, but well, they listen to their discerning customers.
Well, Zune Tang must be dead or in some sanatorium. Otherwise he would have written:
– Microsoft is so genius and innovative! They work on such a marvellous product that it will just blast away ANY other phone OS. 2011 is the perfect year to pour out windose phone 7. At this time, everybody in the world will be so borred of the unconstancy of the poor iPhone and Android OSs that they will immediatly drop them to adopt the best phone OS ever done.
Our sh..t, your congratulations
@R2
gotcha – lol
” the next Apple iPhone killer or Google Android annihilator”
Try roadkill instead. A smashed bug on iPhone’s touchscreen.
Bruuu-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha…!
Now I’m really scared.
Let me guess: December 2011?
errrr.
yawn…..
Pandora is so yesterday…….
Pandora is a playlist for the lives of the terminally clueless.
And no, there isn’t an app to help with that particular condition.
It’s errrm …terminal.
No, no, no.
It’s now Windows Phone 7 2011.
“[iPhone] won’t appeal to business users because it doesn’t have a keyboard..” Monkeyboy.
Hmm, so it’s perfectly acceptable to say whatever you like to get attention even if you don’t believe it. I reckon he made that up on the spot when he said it.
Delayed……. shocker!
So Scott Moritz is a credible source to post so long as it isn’t about Apple?
1) pre-announce some fake stuff – to hurt the competition and stop customers from changing.
2) sadly announce there are some unforseen delays
3) more delays
4) delay
5) (have we forgotten about it yet?) if not, delay else:
1) pre-announce some fake stuff – to hurt the competition and stop customers from changing.
2) …
Microsoft is taking its time pondering whether the Pandora experience is better with glossy or matte screen.
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