Wall Street Journal confirms Windows Mobile 7 for Mobile World Congress, Pink phone for later

February 12, 2010 | By Surur

According to Wall Street Journal, Microsoft plans to publicly show a new version of its cellphone operating system, Windows Mobile 7, for the first time, at Mobile World Congress at Barcelona on Monday, according to people familiar with the matter.

The same “people familiar with the matter” said “the operating system sports a revamped user interface that resembles the look of Microsoft’s Zune HD music player”.

Apparently a separate Microsoft mobile project, unlikely to be announced next week, to design a mobile phone aimed at teenagers, is also in the works. The device, code-named Pink, will be a successor to the T-Mobile Sidekick, and will be a youth-oriented smart phone powered by software and services from Danger and will heavily emphasize social-networking applications.

The Pink phone is being manufactured by Japan’s Sharp Corp. and is expected to be sold internationally by Verizon Wireless and Vodafone Group PLC as early as this spring.

Hopefully the soon to arrive Pink phone is the source of all the rumours of a rather crippled OS we have been hearing about recently.

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Site Admin and Windows Phone enthusiast, he has been using Windows Mobile devices since before they were called PocketPC’s. He is currently sporting a HTC 7 Trophy.

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yeah admin, we have the same concerns going into MWC. and why are they taking it away from T-mobile? t-mobile has been the sole carrier of the sidekick, so if they're coming out with a successor shouldn't t-mobile be the one carrying it? or is it that they're going for the biggest network which means they will potentially have more sales? well there's a lot of music fans out there and to have millions of songs at your finger tip is a good way to go. I do hope they offer the music subscription to windows phone 7 Professional too and not just the jimped down version for tweens.

GP007

If this is true I expect WM7 will have everything Pink does as well services wise, it'd be stupid not to. But WM7 will also have all the other stuff a true smartphone should have. The sidekick afterall is more like a middle ground between a dumbphone and a smartphone imo.
majg

There were also rumors that T-mobile was going Android to replace Sidekicks. Plus, with the alleged hookup between MS and Verizon last year seems to make sense. Maybe as a peace offering, TMobile got HD2?

Paul

Good to get the confirmation on WM7. But given that description of Pink, it's hard to understand why it has taken this long. By this point the social networking services it was first developed for must have changed dramatically.

Craig S

Which could be behind the delay

Paul

Of course. But since it's unlikely we've reached the final state for social networking, it shows the problems inherent in the approach.

majg

Maybe it's a social network that you're not using or aware of yet? Or maybe it's being future-proofed for just that?

Craig S

Just when I thought we'd be all kept in suspense until Monday

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