Microsoft Pink phones might be unveiled next week
April 6th, 2010
According to WSJ, Microsoft’s Project Pink phones could be released next week. Rumors about a new line of Microsoft-branded phones have been appearing for the last months. Reportedly, Microsoft Pink project is about cell phones oriented to young users, with focus on social networking, so we shouldn’t expect smartphones trying to beat Google’s Android OS. Microsoft is said to have designed the software while Sharp will take care of the hardware.
(this is one of Microsoft phones that appeared in the net some time ago)
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Messenger Edition 251 with integrated Windows Live
March 18th, 2010
SFR – France’s second largest mobile carrier has partnered with Microsoft to launch the Messenger Edition 251, a messaging phone which comes with Windows Live Messenger pre-installed.
The Messenger Edition 251 has a AZERTY keyboard – notice the letter distribution in the picture -, a QVGA landscape touchscreen display, web browser, Bluetooth, music player, FM radio, 2MP camera and MicroSD card support, running a proprietary OS – which might be related to Microsoft Pink in some way, this phone also targets young mobile users.
The phone appears to be manufactured by ZTE because it’s very similar to the ZTE X990.
Tags: France, Microsoft, SFR, Windows Live, ZTE
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Microsoft shows off XNA games on Windows Phone: Awesome
March 10th, 2010
A bunch of photos appeared on the net showing off 3D games running on the upcoming Windows Phone 7 using the Asus prototype Microsoft showed at MWC. These games are built with its new XNA Game Studio 4.0, a game development platform with many technologies seen before in Windows desktop version like Direct3D. The game shown in the first picture is The Harvest, a touch-controlled dungeon crawler developed by Luma Arcade. Of course these pictures are meant to show what Windows Phone will be capable of in terms of 3D gaming, but they refused anyone to grab a picture or video of the process.
Tags: Development, Games, Gaming, Microsoft, showcases, Windows Phone 7, XNA
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Windows Mobile still strong in Latin America…really?
March 9th, 2010
Windows Mobile has a downward path lately, with WM 6.5 surprising no one, and many people considering it dead. But it looks like the OS is gaining market share in Latin America according to Doug Smith, Microsoft’s Latin American director of mobile communications, while talking about the upcoming launch of Windows Phone 7 Series OS in the region. According to Business News Americas, Windows Mobile’s smartphone market share is 26% in Brazil and 24% in Mexico, surprisingly leaving a huge amount of Latin American users out of the equation. True, Brazil and Mexico have 250 million mobile subscribers, but only in Argentina, for example, there are 45 million phone users, where Windows Mobile is practically extinct and replaced by BlackBerry and Nokia handsets in most cases, which means Latin America is not well represented in this market share study.
Tags: Market Share, Microsoft, OS, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7
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Windows Phone 7 video reveals screens
March 6th, 2010
While details of Windows Phone 7 OS still are scarce, a new video from Microsoft throws some light about it showing some screens from various apps and apps like flashlight and weather supposedly showing how easy they are to develop thanks to XNA and Silverlight. Still we will have to wait for the first Windows Phone 7 smartphones to see this new OS from Microsoft in real action because of Microsoft has officially stated that smartphones like HTC HD2 running Windows Mobile 6.5 won’t be upgradeable since both platforms are incompatible. Watch the video after the break.
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Microsoft Pink phones show up again
March 6th, 2010
The Microsoft Pink project has been around for some time now without any official statement about the launch of these phones, but they appear to be real according to these leaked images of the codenamed Pure and Turtle phones. These two phones from Microsoft seem to be featurephones rather than smartphones and are manufactured by Sharp. Given their looks, they surely will target young users and heavy texters, and possibly gamers if Microsoft wants to merge platforms like X-Box for example. Along with these pictures, the rumor states that both phones will hit the US market via Verizon in their CDMA form, and global markets should get GSM versions via Vodafone (not exactly global, as Vodafone lacks of presence in Latam for example) as soon as 20th April.
Tags: Feature phone, Microsoft, Pink, rumors, tum, Turtle
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