New Microsoft-branded phones coming soon: - The world’s largest software company the Microsoft is entering new dimensions in the hotly contested arena with its long-awaited “Project Pink” devices. Here we have an another phone up for grabs for the consumers. Microsoft Corp will show off its latest mobile phones on Monday; however this latest offer is not seen as a direct rival to the Apple’s iPhone.
The company is aiming this product at the section consisting of hyperactive teenagers who desire multiple instant messaging accounts, e-mail, games, music and social networking sites like Facebook, all together in a cool-looking package.
The new devices, based on a Microsoft development project code-named “Pink,” will be available later this month in the U.S. through a partnership with Verizon Wireless, the carrier owned by Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group PLC. Thanks to leaked photos, it seems the Pink phones will share a certain aesthetic tone with Windows Phone 7; they’ll have tiled apps, and probably Zune and Xbox integration. Out of the two, one is a vertical slider like the Palm Pre, the other is a horizontal slider like the Motorola Droid.
The new phones are not expected to run Windows Phone 7 but they’re expected to run a modified version of the Danger OS. Two new phones are code-named the “Pure” and the “Turtle,”
This is as a part of the technology giant’s effort to turn around its struggling mobile-phone strategy. The verdict for the Windows Mobile 6 was awful for its hateful software, its massively flawed user interface and weak kernel but it still has some good features like enterprise configurability, multitasking, copy and paste, and a range of other benefits.
There is tough competition from Apple since the iPhone has already been a phenomenally success. Windows Mobile, however, is widely hated, and is slowly phasing out in its latest form. Things look bleak since Microsoft phones have no pre-existing users, little pre-existing software, and two major competitors who are delivering a strongly competitive alternative.
But all is not lost for Microsoft because in certain areas Microsoft’s product is clearly better thought-out than Apple’s. firstly if offers better interface that helps us to find out what we need to know, then we have the hubs concept that brings together different but related data silos, the connectivity with social networking sites, and wireless syncing. It is also believed to have a development environment that will make it easier for developers to produce high-quality applications that fit well within the OS that wasn’t offered earlier.
The users will have to wait for the arrival of the first of the new phones this autumn to determine their success.