01-28-2010, 07:30 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Microsoft "Pink" Phone Coming This Spring?
Rumours about Microsoft's mysterious "Pink" smartphone have been circling around the net for about a year now, but according to a factual statement by a (former) Microsoft employee, we should finally see what Pink is all about this Spring. The "Pink" phone (rumored to be named after the pop-singer Pink) is to be a "Zune-like" smartphone marketed towards youth with a special emphasis on social networking and communication. Not a bad idea coming from Microsoft. It sounds like the the once popular Danger Sidekick platform (which Microsoft acquired back in February 2008). Perhaps this IS the "next genration" Sidekick? And with Windows Mobile 7 around the corner, I wonder how similar Pink will be to the media edition of Windows Mobile 7...
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01-28-2010, 09:43 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Microsoft is so irrelevant when it comes to consumer mobility, does anyone really care about this Pink phone? Most people who use WM devices either have to for work, or regret purchasing them for personal use. None of that is likely to change as the mobility market passes them by...
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01-28-2010, 05:00 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 18
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Quote:
Originally Posted by benjimen
Microsoft is so irrelevant when it comes to consumer mobility, does anyone really care about this Pink phone? Most people who use WM devices either have to for work, or regret purchasing them for personal use. None of that is likely to change as the mobility market passes them by...
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Why are you even on this forum?? Please get off!
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01-28-2010, 08:00 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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Quote:
Originally Posted by benjimen
Microsoft is so irrelevant when it comes to consumer mobility, does anyone really care about this Pink phone?
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You might be surprised this year... 
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01-28-2010, 08:17 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
You might be surprised this year... |
You could very well be right -- though IMO Microsoft long ago lost out on becoming any sort of standard in this arena...
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01-28-2010, 08:18 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 123
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Originally Posted by Djblois
Why are you even on this forum?? Please get off!
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Just because an opinion is different than yours doesn't mean it's not something that should be said. If it bothers you, get yourself off, you'll feel better 
Last edited by benjimen; 01-28-2010 at 08:23 PM..
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01-28-2010, 08:19 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by benjimen
You could very well be right -- though IMO Microsoft long ago lost out on becoming any sort of standard in this arena...
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Here's the thing though: people seem to think the mobile phone game is "over", that somehow the war has been won by certain sides, and everyone else should just take their ball and go home. Smartphones still represent a small fraction of overall mobile phone sales - the game is still afoot! And if Apple proved anything with the iPhone, it's that a compelling product can come out and change the game.
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01-28-2010, 08:22 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 123
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
Here's the thing though: people seem to think the mobile phone game is "over", that somehow the war has been won by certain sides, and everyone else should just take their ball and go home. Smartphones still represent a small fraction of overall mobile phone sales - the game is still afoot! And if Apple proved anything with the iPhone, it's that a compelling product can come out and change the game.
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Yes & no -- you won't see Microsoft mobility product announcements featured on every mainstream news service at home and abroad; or Windows-Phone ports in new cars; or incorporated into mainstream-anything. There's plenty of market share left over to support fringe-OS devices like Windows Mobile -- they'll always be around, just not a standard.
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01-28-2010, 10:59 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 4
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Pink -- the singer, really? I always thought it was an indirect reference the flourescent Pink colors in the Zune logo.
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01-29-2010, 01:21 AM
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Magi
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Quote:
Originally Posted by benjimen
Yes & no -- you won't see Microsoft mobility product announcements featured on every mainstream news service at home and abroad; or Windows-Phone ports in new cars; or incorporated into mainstream-anything. There's plenty of market share left over to support fringe-OS devices like Windows Mobile -- they'll always be around, just not a standard.
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Since mobile computing is pegged to be the fastest growing segment in the coming years, I think it is a bit premature to be picking any winners or losers, or their place in the market. For all we know good old Palm could skyrocket in the coming years. Microsoft could easily be leapfrogging over others and be on everyone's mind within the year....The point is we just don't know yet.
Dave
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