Microsoft Announces Sidekick's Futuristic Mutant Offspring
Posted on 12. Apr, 2010 by Cellular Sales in Company News, Wireless Industry
Back in February Microsoft announced its new Mobile operating system, “Windows Phone 7,” would be available in devices by this holiday shopping season. Right now, the market for Windows Mobile OS phones, in my experience, is comprised mostly of folks who need to use their phone to interface with their IT systems at work. And a few other people who feel comfort with Microsoft products, suspicious as that may seem…
I’ll be honest and say I have not enjoyed any phones running a Microsoft Mobile OS the same way I have not enjoyed handling any rabid porcupines… I haven’t done it. Okay, I’ve messed around with a few handsets and cursed a few times, but that’s it. More than most people.
So anyway, earlier in the year, Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7. Today they announced there would be two new devices coming soon to Verizon to compete with the iPhone and Android handsets (I know no more dates than have been published [true or not] on the Internet). Microsoft purchased the company that made the Paris-hilton-toting-and-famously-hacked “Sidekick” and now they’ve made spawn with a new set of devices and services aimed at the young demographics who enjoy socializing even more than their elders through their phones. It’s gotten a lukewarm review from what I’ve seen so far.
But I would welcome another competitor in the mobile market. It makes better products. I hope Microsoft came to play, but I’ll wait and see. I think maybe Microsoft is tired of seeing Verizon, Apple, and AT&T hogging the mobile industry headlines, and they’re hungry right about now. Let’s see what happens.
-Jay Witherspoon, Director of Advertising
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