“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.]
One source on another site suggested MS will reveal their dual screen Courier tablet. That would make for an interesting event. The two phones will not.
Yesterdays technology today! Amazing. Will they be stocked at ALL of the M$ Stores.
Turtles can breathe out of their butts.
The excitement is nonexistent. —MDN
The excitement is nonexistent, but not the excrement.
4 years too late. Oh dear.
Who cares. Who wants a phone with viruses and spyware? No thanks.
Epiphany! M$ hired Mr Bean to do product design!
Move On.
Nothing new here…sadly.
Should the courier come, expect it NOT to be a miraculous piece of engineering like in the concept
You guys are too hard on MS. I’ll bet they sell tens of these
I was at the Beach Boardwalk playing one of those games where you put a quarter in and try to lift the prizes up with the crane jaws. These were two of the prizes.
Should be called ‘The Homer’
iPhone killers!! iPhone killers!!
those are butt ugly… even by Microsoft standards.
the last time i saw something like that it was dropping from my dog’s bottom.
Pure and Turtle. two ideas i could get behind…. and push off a cliff.
destined to be as popular as the Zune. or a bucket of warm spit. take you pick.
“The horror! The horror….”
Seriously?!
News Report:
“Pure and Turtle devices were discovered in the hands of disembodied limbs, the limbs presumably chewed off the owners body at the shoulder. It is suspected that the users of these phones were so desperate to be rid of the device….”
The Turdle looks alot like a prototype of the Palm Pre that Rubinstein rejected as looking too much like something Microsoft would make.
These are great phones…for me to poop on.
Zune Tang will be getting dozens, to give to the IT guys at work.
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”cool smile” style=”border:0;” />
Nice timing. The iPhone OS 4.0 preview will just have shown people a slew of cool stuff… and here comes MS touting how great their sliderules are. (Sorry, no offense to sliderules.)
With the incessant emphasis by reviewers and others, on the speed of all web-browsing devices, who is the MS marketing genius that came up with “Turtle” as the name for a device? There is only one person capable of that inanity — Ballmer. Come to think of it, he kinda looks like a turtle without its shell . . . .
Craptastic:
Something that tries to be awesome but totaly sucks ass.
Guaranteed the Ballmerites won’t make the same mistake Apple did. No way they will underestimate the demand for these turds.
….this is a secret? You’re kidding, right?
is this for real?
if so, then that’s like, super-pathetically sad.
When it’s really cold, my penis also resembles a turtle.
First the Big Ass Table, now the Big Ass Keyboard.
I seriously had to check the date. No, it’s not the first.
I’m going back to bed. My belly hurts from laughing so much.