More leaks show Microsoft phones, 4/20 release date
updated 01:50 pm EST, Fri March 5, 2010
MS Pure and Turtle show in clearer detail
Still more leaks have surfaced that detail Microsoft's Pure and Turtle phones. Besides providing clearer shots that potentially show a simple and possibly colorful design for each, the new slip puts both the squat-looking Pure and conventional Turtle arriving on Verizon. Although supposedly rumored for a May or June release, Engadget now hears that they could be ready for a seemingly symbolic April 20th.
The teenager-oriented marketing campaign has received a slightly added amount of detail and is expected to center around a "truly, madly, deeply" slogan that surfaced in a set of cryptic Twitter hashtags from earlier this year. Social networking is still known to be a focus of both the ads and the phone's OS.
Microsoft is launching both phones in a bid to capture the near-smartphone category of the market as well as to give it a presence of its own in the space occupied by the likely soon-to-be replaced Sidekick. Either will use an OS superficially similar to Windows Phone 7 but without the smartphone-level features.
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Just what is Microsoft thinking???
THe turtle is ugly and the pure (name sucks) is a regular slider phone.
So, just what is Microsoft trying to sell? Month late and techno weak phones...?????
I hear that Microsoft is going to release its own computer soon... called the iPC. It will have an integrated glass tube (aint that so retro LOL) and allow users to easily surf this new thing called the internet.
Just a thought,
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