Turtle And Pure Pink Phones May Be Just Next-Gen Sidekicks

CNET’s Ina Fried says the Microsoft Pink phones leaked yesterday are “more the evolution of the Sidekick” using Windows Mobile as the core OS, and in addition to Microsoft’s main phone push. What’s interesting is the reason Microsoft bought Danger.

It’s because Danger was all about cloud services for their phones, and Ina hears that they’ll be a big part of what Microsoft’s doing with phones overall. If Windows Mobile 7 is the core, as Mary Jo Foley has reported, the phones will launch when WM7 launches, at the very earliest. Either way, it’s clearly somebody’s busy over in Microsoftland. [Cnet]