Once again analyst fuel the speculation that Microsoft will bring to market it’s own mobile phone hardware. Jefferies & Company analyst Katherine Egbert has speculated that the company will soon launch a Windows Mobile 7 powered smart phone. The new Windows Mobile 7 operating system, or “Seven” as Microsoft has designated it, is expected to debut at the Barcelona Mobile World Congress.
The OEM hardware manufacturers for Project Pink have yet to be revealed. After the recent poor consumer response to the Nexus One, due mostly to Google’s fumbling of end user support for it’s hardware, Microsoft may be having second thoughts about releasing it’s own handset. Hopefully they will offer a more well planned experience for the user rather than the “take the money and run” approach of Google.
Two mobile flavors of Seven are planned, the Business Edition and a Media Edition. The desktop computer edition of Windows 7 is also part of the line designed to give Microsoft a uniform OS presence across computing platforms. Mobile Seven Business Edition will be capable of some forms of media playback including video and an application for live document collaboration. The Zune phone with Seven Media Edition is rumored to have impressive mobile video capabilities.
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February 13th, 2010 at 7:04 pm
Although I am now a Blackberry user because that is what my employer supports, I am very open to more competition and can attest from personal experience that Windows Mobile has been a solid entry in this space for years – and way before Apple. It seems that the Apple zealots believe that we should all be forced by the government to overpay for their over hyped merchandise. Allow me to disagree.