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The Seattle Times: Microsoft Pri0: Microsoft news roundup: Windows Mobile chatter; 'Fix it' button; reactions to Wonderwall; 1 million Xbox Live members using Netflix;
Digital Daily: Microsoft Phune? The Full Research Note
ChannelWeb Complete Feed: Microsoft Shoots Down Smartphone Rumors
Microsoft news roundup: Windows Mobile chatter; 'Fix it' button; reactions to Wonderwall; 1 million Xbox Live members using Netflix;
The Seattle Times: Microsoft Pri0 —
... , has Microsoft working on its own smartphone, based on an Nvidia Tegra chip. "[I]t could turn out to be ... a reference design Microsoft has used," Broadpoint's Doug Freedman said. "... But we've also picked up that Microsoft is working on a phone themselves." [Added: WSJ runs down all the times Microsoft has said no, it's "not doing a phone," as it did in response to this latest go-round.] ...
Microsoft Phune? The Full Research Note
Digital Daily —
... That was Redmond’s terse denial of a report that it is preparing to launch a branded cellphone in the second half of this year. Put forth by analysts from Broadpoint.AmTech, the report speculates that the device would tightly integrate hardware and software, much like Apple’s iPhone, and that Microsoft (MSFT) may uncrate it at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month. Below, the note in its entirety: ...
Microsoft Shoots Down Smartphone Rumors
ChannelWeb Complete Feed —
... is used on partner vendors' hardware. But that's where it ends, so says Microsoft. The speculation reached its crescendo Thursday, when Broadpoint AmTech analysts Rob Sanderson and Mark McKechnie threw gasoline on the fire in a research report that said "multiple industry sources" have clued them in that Microsoft is gearing up to launch its own smartphone come the second half of this year. This time, however, Microsoft nipped the rumors in the bud, with a spokesperson telling The Wall Street Journal plain and simple: "Microsoft is not doing a phone." While Microsoft is ...
Microsoft Shoots Down Smartphone Rumors
The Channel Wire —
... is used on partner vendors' hardware. But that's where it ends, so says Microsoft. The speculation reached its crescendo Thursday, when Broadpoint AmTech analysts Rob Sanderson and Mark McKechnie threw gasoline on the fire in a research report that said "multiple industry sources" have clued them in that Microsoft is gearing up to launch its own smartphone come the second half of this year. This time, however, Microsoft nipped the rumors in the bud, with a spokesperson telling The Wall Street Journal plain and simple: "Microsoft is not doing a phone." While Microsoft is ...
Will We See a Microsoft Phone This Month? [Rumor]
Gizmodo —
Microsoft says absolutely not, but an analyst memo posted on All Things D claims we could see a Microsoft phone at Mobile World Congress later this month in Barcelona. Updated Update: Zune Marketing Exec Brian Seitz says he's heard nothing about a Microsoft Branded phone launching at any upcoming shows, which seems to rule out the possiblilty of it being a Zune Phone, if anything at all. MSFT Smart-Phone Launch? Multiple industry sources are telling us that MSFT is planning to launch a ...
Will We See the Zune Phone This Month? [Zune Phone]
Gizmodo —
Microsoft says absolutely not, but an analyst memo posted on All Things D claims we could see a Microsoft phone at Mobile World Congress later this month in Barcelona. MSFT Smart-Phone Launch? Multiple industry sources are telling us that MSFT is planning to launch a smartphone. We are told it will be a 2H launch. We do not see this as landscape changing, much like their Zune launch. According to the memo (excerpted above), written by Analyst firm Broadpoint AmTech, the phone would hit the market in the second half ...
Linkpost | 2.6.2009
TechBlog —
... 7 s UAC more secure | Main February 06, 2009 Linkpost | 2.6.2009 • Is Apple working on a next-gen iPhone with customized multi-core chips? - The rumor resurfaces. • Apple planning connected television, Apple TV with DVR - report - Analyst things Apple TV upgrade coming, even though Apple has downplayed the idea in the past. • JaJah App Now Turns Your iPod touch Into a VoIP Phone • Nvidia-based Microsoft smartphone coming? and Microsoft: Once Again, We're Not Making a Smartphone • New in Labs: Multiple Inboxes - ...
Microsoft Shoots Down Zunephone Rumours One More Time for Good Measure
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... maybe, just maybe Microsoft isn’t working on a phone. If they aren’t, maybe Microsoft should be the one taking a hint - people are obviously gripped with wishful thinking here, and would like to see The Big M take the reigns from HTC and have a go at it themselves. Of course, plenty of hurdles like manufacturing investments, souring existing partnerships, and building new ones with carriers would certainly slow a project like this down to a standstill.
[via WSJ]
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Microsoft smartphone rumors return
Obsessable News Feed —
... is developing a smartphone, current rumors point towards design of a smartphone chassis upon which other manufacturers will base their phones. With the Mobile World Congress conference (MWC) around the corner, rumors of Microsoft designing their own smartphone have returned. These rumors have varied from just another smartphone to something more like a part Zune-part smartphone creation and answer to Apple's iPhone. In the face of all these rumors, Microsoft continues to deny that it is working on any such device. Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet is now ...
Microsoft insists it's not making a phone, rumored to be rebranding WinMo to "Windows Phone"
Engadget Mobile —
Filed under: Windows MobileWe're just ten days away from whatever Microsoft has to announce at Mobile World Congress, and it looks like the company is trying to put a halt to the endless rumors that it's developing a phone: WinMo director Scott Rockfield told CNET it's not happening, and another Microsoft spokesman just denied it to the Wall Street Journal. That should be enough to shut people up, right? Of course not -- no denials by anyone ever have been -- but unless Stiv Ballmers actually pulls a Zunephone out ...
Microsoft insists it's not making a phone, rumored to be rebranding WinMo to "Windows Phone"
Engadget —
We're just ten days away from whatever Microsoft has to announce at Mobile World Congress, and it looks like the company is trying to put a halt to the endless rumors that it's developing a phone: WinMo director Scott Rockfield told CNET it's not happening, and another Microsoft spokesman just denied it to the Wall Street Journal. That should be enough to shut people up, right? Of course not -- no denials by anyone ever have been -- but unless Stiv Ballmers actually pulls a Zunephone out of his pocket next week, we're going to ...
It all depends on what you mean by “Microsoft” and “is not doing” and “a phone”
GMSV —
... , prompting the Redmond behemoth to issue what sounds like an unqualified denial: “Microsoft is not doing a phone.” If this feels familiar, it’s not a case of deja vu. Google made an almost identical disclaimer almost a year ago in response to rumors of a gPhone (see “ ...
Microsoft Denies Plans to Build Own Smartphone
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... Now Microsoft is responding and its answer is No. "Microsoft is not doing a phone," a Microsoft spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal. ...
Analysts: Microsoft to Release Smartphone; Microsoft: Nuh-uh!
iPodObserver —
Microsoft is working on its own smart phone, according to "multiple sources" cited by Rob Sanderson and Mark McKechnie of Broadpoint AmTech, but Microsoft is explicitly denying that, according to the Wall Street Journal . Microsoft has long been rumored to be working on a Microsoft branded device to compete with Apple's iPhone, and now Google's Android platform, but the company has so far been very specific about denying such is the case. WSJ reporter Nick Wingfield pointed out that such direct denials are somewhat unusual, in that company spokespersons could simply take the ...
