Verizon Wireless is going to provide two novel phones from Microsoft in May or June according to bases acquainted with the substance. The innovative handsets will target youngsters and will offer easy access to social networking sites and keyboards for text messaging.
Rumors assertion the mobile phones will be made by Shrill and will have the Microsoft and Verizon Wireless marques. A Microsoft-branded handset is a novel move for the company; until now, Microsoft has focused on providing the Windows Mobile software to handset builders rather than selling a model below its own brand. Microsoft still intends to work closely with phone constructions that make Windows handsets and the mobile carriers that sell the handsets.
The novel phones are part of a Microsoft project codenamed “Pink.” The handsets are intended to contend with Motorola’s CLIQ or T-Mobile’s Sidekick. The Pink handsets won’t run the novel Windows Handset 7 Series OS. One of the handsets, named Turtle, is a perpendicular slider that will sport a screen resolution of 320×240. The other handset, codenamed Pure, is a horizontal slider with a screen resolution of 480×320 (the same as the iPhone).
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