Microsoft’s Smartphone
Rumors abound this week about two major players in the mobile market Apple and Microsoft.
The first involves Apple. The maker of the iPhone is in tentative talks with Verizon Wireless, away from AT&T. This would be a huge move as Apple tries to sell more of there mobile device to customers who did not want to switch carriers.
The second rumor involves Microsoft and their attempt at a mobile phone. “Project Pink”, as the Redwood, CA based company has called it also has been in rumored talks withs Verizon. The Microsoft device would include a touch-screen, “new features” to the Windows Mobile Operating System, and the Windows Marketplace, currently in use with other Microsoft products, like the XBox. ALthough it is also rumored to have “multimedia capabilities”, this new phone makes no mention of the Zune. The Zune was labeled as “The iPod Killer” back when it was first introduced in 2006, 5 years after the release of the iPod.
There is no telling wether or not either of these rumors will come to be, but there is a good chance Microsoft will be entering the mobile market with a device. Growth in customers has dwindled, but the new technology for those customers are ever evolving and Microsoft is poised to take advantage of that with “Project Pink”.
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