Microsoft Phones Anyone? Wait For The Announcement Till Next Week
Media reports have emerged that software biggie Microsoft Corp. is all set to launch its much awaited phones in coming week. With this move the software giant is trying to take a grip of the growing market for smartphones.
Microsoft Verizone Deal: According to the sources, the mobile phones will be marketed by Verizon Wireless, the top U.S. mobile operator. The phones are designed to cater the needs of the users who are constantly using social network sites.
In the photographs that were leaked to a tech blog in March 2010, the phones appeared to be stylish and resemble updated versions of Microsoft's Sidekick device which is creating a buzz among the youth these days. The phone is also being called Microsoft pink phone. The phone will have sliding keypads and touch screens but they will be devoid of the flexibility or power of Microsoft's smartphone platform.
Sources further revealed that the phones will be made up by Sidekick manufacturer Sharp Corp. and won’t be available in the markets till summer.
Microsoft, the software pioneer, has sent invites to the media personnel’s to attend an event that will be organized in San Francisco on next Monday, but has not disclosed anything about it. Verizon Wireless that is a joint venture of the U.S. phone company Verizon Communications Inc and Vodafone Group plc have not given any statements about the event.
Microsoft’s main aim behind the announcement of the new phone is not the mobile phone market but it focuses around the revamping of the Windows software IT licenses to handset manufactures that will be made available later this year.
Microsoft expects that it’s Windows Phone 7 which was launched in February, will be able to give a tough competition to the BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd and iPhone maker Apple Inc, and also hopes to put newcomer Google Inc on the back burner, which is trying to make a stand in the phone market with Android-powered phones and its own Nexus One.
As per the research conducted by tech research firm comScore, Microsoft is losing share at higher pace in the U.S. smartphone market. The share has dropped down by 4 percentage points to 15.1 percent between November 2009 and February 2010.
