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Microsoft's Project Pink resurfaces
05.03.2010
Despite the hubbub over the Windows Phone 7 Series operating system and all the shiny new handsets that are sure to follow, there has been no mention of Microsoft's other phone project, codenamed 'Pink', even though this has been in the works for some time now.
Pink is a consumer-oriented multimedia handset based on the T-Mobile Sidekick and according to the Wall Street Journal Microsoft has apparently been working on Project Pink since last year in conjunction with Verizon Wireless.
The handset is supposedly along the lines of the technology in the Sidekick, which is in fact a rebranded Hiptop phone from mobile computing firm Danger that was acquired in 2008 by Microsoft.
The latest news according to Gizmodo is that a device has emerged from Project Pink - a small and compact QWERTY slider called Pure - one that had been leaked last September but that has now been spotted in the wild.
The Pure looks like Nokia's 7705 Twist but with a bigger screen and cloud back up. The screenshots indicate it has tiles similar to the Windows Phone 7 Series that revolve around social networking.
By Marie Boran
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