Microsoft Phones Revealed?

By  |  Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 12:08 am

Gizmodo is certainly on a roll–after publishing what seems to be a Microsoft video of a dual-screen concept tablet PC, it’s dug up photos that supposedly show two Windows Mobile smartphones which will be cobranded by Microsoft and Sharp. One looks a lot like a Palm Pre, one looks kind of like a Sidekick, and neither is inherently exciting. Then again, it won’t be hardware designs that will make any upcoming Windows Mobile phone a big whoop–that’ll only occur if Windows Mobile 7 turns out to be a great leap forward. At the moment, at least, almost all smartphone hardware isn’t much more than a container for software–even with the iPhone, maybe fifteen percent of what makes it interesting is the hardware, and the rest is the iPhone OS.

 
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  1. tom b Says:
    September 24th, 2009 at 5:55 am

    Sharp? One rule I live by is “never buy anything made by Sharp”.

    “Then again, it won’t be hardware designs that will make any upcoming Windows Mobile phone a big whoop–that’ll only occur if Windows Mobile 7 turns out to be a great leap forward.”

    MS hardware tends to be a train wreck– look at the flaming Xbox problem. Their software is only a little better. They do best in captive markets, where a few corruptible IT Sheiks make all the porchasing decisions.

  2. Backlin Says:
    September 24th, 2009 at 1:26 pm

    I hope this isn’t it. All Microsoft needs to do to persuade me away from the iPhone is put a chip in the Zune HD that makes it an unlocked phone. Having some apps would be nice as well.

  3. Microsoft's phones Says:
    September 24th, 2009 at 5:38 pm

    i think they look quite jarring… it would have looked amazing 10 years ago, but now it just looks like a really old prototype…