Microsoft Pink phones unveiled...meh

Cleve Nettles
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September 23, 2009
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Not quite the show-stopper of yesterday, today Gizmodo unveiled Microsoft's Pink phones.  Yeah, we already told you about them, but they have big strong lawyers and posted pictures.  You aren't going to lose sleep over these guys:

That's Turtle ^

That's Pure below

Microsoft is no match for the Apple rumor mill ;)

 

Comments (24)

NSXRebel | September 23, 2009 - 4:08pm

 hmm...

 Semper Fidelis

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 23, 2009 - 4:11pm

Wow, that's amazing. Let's reinvent the wheel.

Kusi (not verified) | September 23, 2009 - 4:12pm

wtf. is ms stuck in 2002?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 23, 2009 - 4:19pm

so obviously you had photos and specs of these things the whole time? And didn't post them because you were afraid of getting sued?

Nice work

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 23, 2009 - 4:20pm

Its a Fat Phone. Guess who designed it! :-)

Hint: One humungous dancing turtle.. eh monkey!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 23, 2009 - 4:22pm

still designing this type of mobile phones? no words sincerely..

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 23, 2009 - 4:23pm

Its a Fat Phone. Guess who designed it !! :-)

Hint: One humungous dancing turtle... eh monkey!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 23, 2009 - 4:30pm

Semper eadem

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 23, 2009 - 4:41pm

Are you sure that is not a pre? Looks identical to me.

Cory Schulz | September 23, 2009 - 10:25pm

 It almost looks like a cross between a Pre and an iPhone. The thing about these phones is that most of the functionality is entirely dependent on the software and how easy it is to do complex things. Microsoft is terrible at making good software, so I'm sure these will follow the same fate as the Zune.

Thiago Auge (not verified) | September 23, 2009 - 5:03pm

The truth is that they didn't know if it was better to copy iphone or palm pre, so they decided to copy them both... That's a nice start, if they manage to make it run Vista it would be stellar.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 23, 2009 - 5:14pm

pre and that lg with blue design ?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 23, 2009 - 5:15pm

They went for "phat" but got "fat" instead. LOL!

Some guy (not verified) | September 23, 2009 - 5:22pm

Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, Microsoft.

dan (not verified) | September 23, 2009 - 5:34pm

Wow, at least when they copy apple they're copying something worth while, copying LG and palm is just sad, i wonder if their courier idea will suck this much

DooD | September 25, 2009 - 3:44am

 Courier looks amazing but will surely suck. Would be a great hackintosh project tho.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 23, 2009 - 6:07pm

Oh Microsoft, it always ceases to amaze me how you can take good others' good ideas and turn'em into a big ol' bag of fail. Bravo.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 23, 2009 - 6:59pm

Ive had the urge a few times to propel something at the wall when it malfunctions. With microscoft's new phone I can save time looking for a rock.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 23, 2009 - 10:23pm

"With microscoft's new phone I can save time looking for a rock."

LOL, sincerely. That's a hilarious comment! Best laugh I've had all day.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 23, 2009 - 7:10pm

It's obvious from the ZuneHD and the iPhone that looks are not enough. I think the ZuneHD looks much better with a prettier interface than the iPhone. Yet when I read the things that were 'odd' I wondered if it had been field tested.

The screen is difficult to see outdoors - show stopper
Apps load times are long - Show stopper
Apps quit times are long - Show stopper
Web pages load times are long - Show stopper
The list goes on.

The thing that impressed me the most was that we heard rumors from people who had seen iPhones being used in public before it was released. Steve Jobs and all the execs at Apple used one before release. That is why it works better than most.

The iPhone may not have the best feature list, but what is there works.

Oflife (not verified) | September 23, 2009 - 11:12pm

;)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 23, 2009 - 11:55pm

I could care less about the hardware. its the o.s. that makes a phone.

Ed (not verified) | September 24, 2009 - 8:37am

personally, these phones are pretty blah, as the poster suggests. but beyond that, we all know what many have already commented, that software is the key. the device can look as nice (or ugly, in this case) as possible, but if the software isn't there... well then forget about it.

case in point, the old HTC Dash. that thing was a very nice-looking, solid phone, with a ton of features. but it ran win mo, which blew back then. and it's not much better these days. i've seen an HTC Touch HD in action, and i'll pass, thank you very much.

and the Zune interface is disgusting. it's boring to look at, and despite some reviewers' comments, it is not elegant, or anything of the sort. maybe for a monkey it's good. but the way you zoom into a category, with half of the category title permanently remaining at the top, as your "up" key. that's just weird. i'd say if the interface was AWESOME, some people might overlook some of the shortcomings. but apparently people like weird, awkward, slow devices... because those new Zunes are selling.

Alex (not verified) | September 24, 2009 - 9:27am

The only mobile companies that actually that seem to make up there own designs anymore are apple htc and maybe nokia and Sony Ericsson