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T-Mobile Dumps MS SmartPhone
burgburgburg writes "It seems that T-Mobile International, Europe's second largest mobile phone operator, has decided against introducing a Microsoft SmartPhone after all. T-Mobile had announced their plans in February to introduce the MS SmartPhone this summer. Industry insiders say that the software for the phone continued to have 'fundamental problems,' leading to a high failure rate. French mobile carrier Orange introduced a MS SmartPhone, SPV, late last year. It initially had software security problems which Microsoft has claimed are patched."
No, it doesn't figure. It's not a French phone at all. It's manufactured by a Taiwanese company for a German customer. And with which part of the phone is there a problem? The software developed by Microsoft, a U.S. company.
Just because the article is different doesn't make it correct and the news.com one incorrect. The article you linked to doesn't even link to the specific article from the WSJ it took the quote from. It just says, "Some quote from The Wall Street Journal." Here's a few excerpts from the news.com article:
"We have decided not to introduce this phone,'' a T-Mobile representative said on the sidelines of a Deutsche Telekom news conference. "For the time being, we are not pursuing this project further.'
OK, fair enough. Maybe they will later. Though they didn't confirm. And the only substantial comment in the msmobiles site (msmobiles? They couldn't be biased), is the following conjecture: Please note: "for the time being" does not mean "never".
So right now, they've dropped it. They haven't delayed it, they aren't waiting around for Microsoft or HTC to fix anything, but "For the time being, we are not pursuing this project." So the project is stopped. They might pick it up at a later date, but they aren't just "delaying" the project as the msmobiles excerpt seems to imply.