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Microsoft Readying an iPhone Competitor
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... we have one claiming that Microsoft is looking to put out their own iPhone contender and push it onto the Verizon network. The new phone will not be Zune based, but if the rumors and rumblings are correct will be an extension of the existing Windows Mobile OS. The phone is being called Project Pink ad will feature the almost obligatory multi-touch interface and will have the new Windows Market Place as an App Store competitor. No other information on Pink was available. Read more here at the Wall Street Journal Microsoft Corp. is in discussions with Verizon Wireless to ...
Microsoft Expected to Release Cell Phone with Verizon Next Year
X-bit labs —
... years since the world s largest maker of software released its Zune portable digital media player, but Microsoft has never confirmed any plans on the matter. However, according to a newly reported rumour, the software giant will indeed release its rival for Apple iPhone, T-Mobile G1 and other similar devices next year. Microsoft is in talks with Verizon Wireless operator in the U.S. regarding potential launch of a multimedia cell-phone with touch-screen early in 2010, reports the Wall Street Journal . According to the published information, Microsoft s cell-phone will belong ...
Microsoft Responds to Verizon 'Pink' Rumors
Today @ PC World —
Microsoft Responds to Verizon 'Pink' Rumors Microsoft may be wielding a new weapon in the war against Apple. The company's rumored to be working on a top-secret smartphone with Verizon. The mission: take out the iPhone. The code-name: "Pink." Microsoft + Verizon = Pink? Word of the supposed Microsoft-Verizon marriage comes from The Wall Street Journal and is attributed to those seemingly omnipresent "people familiar with matters." The unnamed insiders suggest "Pink" will be a souped-up Windows Mobile multimedia phone made specifically to compete with Apple's iPhone. A ...
Report: Verizon thinks Pink—as in Microsoft iPhone rival
Ars Technica —
... Microsoft is currently in talks with Verizon to launch the device next year, according to sources speaking to The Wall Street Journal. The device will be designed—both on the software and hardware ends—by Microsoft, but the report claims that a third-party company will manufacture the phone. ...
Microsoft Responds to Verizon 'Pink' Rumor
Today @ PC World —
Microsoft Responds to Verizon 'Pink' Rumors Microsoft may be wielding a new weapon in the war against Apple. The company's rumored to be working on a top-secret smartphone with Verizon. The mission: take out the iPhone. The code-name: "Pink." Microsoft + Verizon = Pink? Word of the supposed Microsoft-Verizon marriage comes from The Wall Street Journal and is attributed to those seemingly omnipresent "people familiar with matters." The unnamed insiders suggest "Pink" will be a souped-up Windows Mobile multimedia phone made specifically to compete with Apple's iPhone. A ...
Pink To Be Microsoft and Verizon iPhone Killer?
I4U News —
... Rumors again have surfaced about Microsofts mysterious "Pink," this time claiming that the software giant is in talks with Verizon to release "Pink" as an iPhone killer mobile device next year, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal . Microsoft will apparently design both the software and hardware, and farm out the production to a third party. Microsofts Windows Marketplace for Mobile will serve as their version of Apples App Store. The phone will feature the Windows Mobile OS with what the report refers to as new software capabilities. The report makes no ...
Wednesday Shortbread
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... 3:30 AM on April 29, 2009 Wednesday The Wall Street Journal reports Microsoft and Verizon plot an iPhone rival DSLReports: Charter reorganization ...
WSJ: Microsoft working on iPhone rival
DV Hardware —
... Wall Street Journal wrote today that Microsoft and Verizon Wireless are in talks to launch an iPhone competitor in early 2010: ...
Microsoft and Verizon plan iPhone rival, WSJ reports
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... the notion of a Zune phone over a year ago, but that has done little to quell speculation and rumors about the software maker's handset plans. Today, the Wall Street Journal quotes "people familiar with the matter" as saying Microsoft is in talks with Verizon over the production of a device to rival the iPhone. Such a partnership does seem plausible. After all, while Microsoft has reiterated its focus on offering Windows Mobile for third-party handset makers, that hasn't stopped the iPhone from becoming hugely successful. As for Verizon, it may be in search of a high-profile ...
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