These are the first pic of Microsoft ’s Project Pink telephone set , snatch up from deep within the bowels of the Microsoft / Verizon industrio - complex — not theTurtle , but the larger , pal - comparable Pure . This does n’t look like Windows Phone 7 , so what is it ?
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The shots come just hours after a leakedadvertising campaignfor the Turtle outed Verizon as a carrier for the Pink Turtle , without so much as a credit of the Pure .
Our tipster confirms the Pure is also headed to Verizon , but does n’t have a passing date . ( Though it ’s hard to imagine the vent date would fall too far out of cable with the Turtle , which is expected to hit stores at the goal of April . Business Week ’s claim that the acquittance will be May or June of this year back this . ) Anyway , this thing : It ’s strange ! It ’s got a paneled interface , with fixed square for everything from music ( with Zune composition ) and email to RSS feeds and what seem like a co-ordinated social networking hub . As hinted earlier , the esthetic is similar Windows Phone 7 , but the package is clearly not Windows Phone 7 . This looks like Windows Phone 7 : Feature Phone variation .
Our source got a few second to use the Pure , and said it was nonrational , “ beneficial than Android , ” and decorated with Windows Phone 7 - style animations throughout . That say , the app situation still does n’t add up . There ’s apparently an download blind for new apps , but it ’s not dwell with anything yet . This could have in mind two things : Either the pinkish phones will tap into the Windows Phone 7 market place somehow , which would be great ( but alsodoesn’t make sense ) , or they ’ll have apps like the Zune has apps — which is to say , only sort of , and only from choose partners .
The more we see , the more the perfect and Turtle look like they ’re stacking up to be Zune - ified followups to the Sidekick . It ’s an interesting move , but who does Microsoft think they ’re go to betray this matter to ? Tweens ?
Update: Firmware Leak
We ’ve got our hired man on leaked Pink microcode , and we ’ve dumped all the image and photograph we could extract . Sadly , there ’s not way to run this right now , but we can see a circumstances of what ’s read above , like the homescreen software icons , in full resolution . There are also traces of Zune , as well as Facebook , Twitter , Yahoo , and Windows Live . There are some shots ( discover bysomeone elsewho ’s fuck off the firmware ) that show a lockscreen dialer , but these are likely placeholders of some sort . Also tucked by in the microcode are default wallpapers for both phones , in their rumored resolutions . Finally , we ’ve get a jibe from the Turtle ’s unremarkable tv camera , which appears to have flash .
( filename included in the gallery , because they ’re pretty descriptive . )
Here ’s what we can glean from the dump so far :
• The toter is in spades Verizon , though there are references in the firmware to AT&T and T - Mobile in the US ( which are likely placeholders , since the remainder of the evidence points to CDMA radios as standard for these phones . ) There are also acknowledgment to a wide reach of extraneous carrier in the UK , mainland Europe and Asia , but again , most of these carriers do n’t defend what appear like the initial version of the handset ’s CDMA ironware , as far as I can tell .
• The OS is based on Windows CE , like the Zune and Windows Phone 7 . This does n’t mean a ton to user , but the guy who return us the microcode summarise up what that think of under the cowl :
Everything is programed in .NET a caboodle like 7 is . It does not say it inside the file where I have seen , but It is coded in XAMl and is in the structure that CE 7 is supposed to be structured , it is my impression that it will be found off CE 7 , and it will have a lot of draw in to Windows hold up as well .
• Turtle and Pure codenames are used in the firmware , but that does n’t mean that those ’ll be the shipping public figure for the product . There are also codenames for the “ Pride ” and “ Lion ” handsets , which appear to just be the international variation of the Turtle and Pure , severally .
• The Turtle ’s screen is 320×240 , while the Pure ’s is 480×320 — the same as the iPhone .
• There are character to something called “ The Loop , ” which sounds like some kind of central social networking hub .
We ’re power through the firmware garbage dump now , so we ’ll stake more as we get it . [ Special thanks to our tipsters , andConflipper ]
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