Verizon courts Microsoft
WHILE THE US PRESS banged on about Verizon's chatting with fruit themed toymaker Apple to make a cheap version of the iPhone, it seemed to ignore the fact that Verizon has also been talking with Microsoft.
It seems that Verizon has been getting around and a more compact, cheap version of the Iphone and a larger Ipod Touch are only two of the irons it has in the fire.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Verizon has also reportedly been in talks with Microsoft to develop a device that will rival the Iphone.
Verizon and Microsoft are allegedly plotting the next big thing to compete against not only the Iphone but also the Blackberry, Palm Pre and Google smartphones.
Microsoft's code-name for its device, according to the newspaper, is "Pink". Pink would use a Volish Windows Mobile operating system and would also probably include Microsoft's new Windows Marketplace for Mobile. µ
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Verizon Also Uses Yahoo & AOL, 'cept neither write software. Verizon trys to stick YOU with MSN on dsl service. Once little boxes trick you, cann't undo msn from verizon, yet you can switch from yahoo or AOL To verizonMsn. Its pity, yet microoft writes code & telcos use code like never ending splurge.
So its backscratching deal, with little outside compitition, excepting Linux. Telco is UNIX Operation, so mainly $$$ Thing. You get what You would have paid for, as customer pays in end, nOT much difference in cost. Except You Just Might BUY Thru MSN involuntarily, with way its ALL Hooked together. Most customers wouldn't Know or Care, Much. MS offers More to public, In Any Event. drashek
hahaha... so in the first paragraph you say the "US Press" has "ignored the fact taht Verizon has also been talking with Microsoft," and then 4 lines later you admit that your source is the Wall Street Journal. Lest you forget, New York, NY is in the United States.
Oh yeah, a collaboration that will yield an application that wont run on a device operated by people who wont give water to a dieing man.
Just what I've been waiting for.
How can they develop for both sides of the fence without getting their butt stuck ON the fence?
It's very clear that mobile phone makers really don't care what consumers care.