All of that Project Pink/Zune Phone rumour madness is back with one statement by Jefferies analyst Katherine Egbert…
“Our recent industry checks indicate Microsoft will be debuting its own phone sometime in the next two months…We expect the new phone to debut soon, at either the Feb 15-18 Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona Spain, or possibly at CTIA in Las Vegas one month later.”
Egbert believes that the Zune Phone will be birthed from a Microsoft/OEM partnership similar to what we’ve seen between Google and HTC with the Nexus One. She also believes the phone will feature a 5-megapixel camera and 720P video support – neither of which are huge stretches of the imagination. [AllThingsD]
Travis New
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 2:06 PMMicrosoft has stated time and time again that they will not release their own handset so as not to compete with their OEM resellers. “IF” their handset was midly successful it could turn smaller mobile sec’s such as Dell/HP/Toshiba/Asus from bothering with windows which would reduce sales. This “analyst”
matt
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 3:12 PMI would hate for a zune phone to take off like the iphone.
I mean, I would love it right up to the part where we have to port entire games to c# just for that platform… no nice multiplatform engines :(