“Microsoft’s mystery event is a mystery no more,” Ina Fried reports for CNET.
MacDailyNews Take: Some “mystery.” See photo (left).
Fried continues, “The devices, code-named Pure and Turtle, are both slider phones, each with a touch screen and keyboard, a source told CNET. In the U.S., the devices will run on Verizon Wireless’ network and go on sale within the month following the event. Microsoft plans to unveil the devices at the April 12 event in San Francisco.”
MacDailyNews Take: “Unveil?” See photo (left).
Fried continues, “Turtle and Pure are more in line with the market Microsoft targeted with the Sidekick, the T-Mobile device it acquired as part of its 2008 Danger acquisition.”
MacDailyNews Take: The excitement is nonexistent.
Full article here.
[Attribution: AllThingsD. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “John H.” for the heads up.]
Pure Turtle Crap.
Did Microsoft ever recover all that lost Sidekick user data?
And who at Microsoft thought “Turtle” was a good name? I guess it sort of looks like a turtle…
@CitizenX
LOL
Slide out keyboards…. How quaint.
I have to hurry and get a ticket to CA so I can be the first in line at the MS store.
Oh, will they sell it there?
Oooooohhh!!
I got a pure turtle head stickin out!
– Fat Ballmer
It looks like my FisherPrice My First Computer
Is a blended turtle a key ingredient of turtle soup?
TURD-le
BBBBbut it doesn’t have a virtual keyboard. Consumers will not buy a smartphone with a physical keyboard unless you get 2 for $100.00 and call them Blackberries.
These phones have failure written all over them.
The wow never happened.
LOL Microcrap never quite “gets it”.
Snicker, snicker! Looks almost as elegant as Sony’s “Bean” mp3 player! LOL
The top one looks just like my granny’s pill box.
turdle
Same as it ever was.
The “pure” is contaminated with an outmoded physical keyboard, and Flash, no doubt
Like a frightened turtle!!
I must close this tab as pure gay has just started leaking from my screen
crickets chirping…
Runs genuine internet explored. Accept no imitations!
2 years to bring THAT to market???
Yes, the Turtle was slow in coming. No surprise there.
I was beginning to think that their photocopiers were on the fritz. Turns out that Microsoft may not be so dumb after all.
True be told Microsoft discovered the perfect tax write off, another Vista, Zune, etc., so to speak.
Certainly beats the other 9 that they tried…http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/taxes/p108364.asp
Betcha the thing runs silverlighr, but not flash and not one peep will be said by the same trolls that have repeatedly bitched about the iPhone/iPad.