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Microsoft Enters the Cell Phone OS Market
PuZZLeR writes: "Today, Microsoft unveiled a new operating system for mobile phones (named 'Windows Powered Smartphone 2002') and plans to fully enter the wireless data devices with voice capabilities by utilizing both cellphones and PDA devices. TI already created a reference design for the Ms powered phone. While this sounds like Microsoft is going after Handspring, RIM or Danger, cellphone OS manufactures, like Nokia and OpenWave are expected to counteract to the announcements. Today, Nokia announced it will offer mobile phone makers its own development kit and OS."
"Windows Powered Smartphone 2002"
lol, why not call it "super-great windows CE awesome gnarly future-smart-phone 2002"
I mean, seriously.. why not call it like "Smartphone XP" or just throw an XP at the end of a decent brand name (nokia 7100XP)?
ok, I'm done my ignorant comments.. time to read the article and see how far off I really am.
If anyone's ever read Bill Gate's book "The Road Ahead", this will sound chillingly familiar. In this book, he described how he'd like to see every appliance integrated into a central system (all of course designed by Microsoft ;-). This is just one more stepping stone.
His vision, then, would be that you turn on your phone, log into the Hailstorm cellphone server, check your hotmail and sms in one, perhaps unfold your laptop running XP and download the messages, go home and turn on your TV running a microsoft-style tivo, put on your MS Stereo running off an XP music server, and so on. Total saturation, with total control from Redmond.
Here.... The short version:
.NET (Microsoft) versus Java (Nokia) on the mobile front too...
" Top-ranked mobile phone maker Nokia said on Monday it would offer other mobile handset suppliers a complete design kit for making Internet-ready phones, seeking to stave off a push by Microsoft Corp. into the mobile market.
The move by Nokia, maker of one of every three mobile phones sold globally, takes aim at computer software giant Microsoft, which said earlier on Monday it was offering phone makers a standard kit of software and computer chips to build new "smartphones." "
The article also mentions that out of the top 5 mobile phone manufacturers, only Samsung is coming out with phones based on the Microsoft junk, at the end of this year.
It'll be
Not a flame:
/. community, I think that we should really give MS a little credit for coming up with ideas which people actually use!
I'm really impressed with the time and dedication they have put into diversifying what they do. As a company, I really think that Microsoft has it's head on it's shoulders. I am ready for these phones to come available. This way I can stop lugging around my PDA, I'll just have all of the information (such as calendar and contacts) all right there.
I may be in the minority here...but damnit
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With software like Microwindows, PicoGUI, and Qtopia available, a lot of companies will probably be finding Linux useful on PDAs and smaller embedded devices like Cellphones.
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Can't they just be happy with owning the PC desktop?
No, because that means they must stop growing. Which means that they'll have unhappy shareholders on their hands, who might finally demand some of those dividends Microsoft has been withholding for years.
And besides, as soon as they stop growing, they stop being a moving target. If they concentrate on owning the PC desktop, then they aren't integrating "new" products all the time anymore. And if they aren't integrating "new" products, then someone else could match their existing feature set. So the instant they stop trying to grab every market in sight, they're dead.
Well, having to boot your mobile isn't excatly new or unknown.
I have a Nokia 9110 Communicator, which sometimes can be very annoying.
Half a year ago almost half of the calls would simply halt the phone. So I had to disconnect the battery every time. This behaviour simply disappeared after a few weeks.
Microsoft isn't responsible for all bugs in the world...
please proff read !