“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?