Microsoft's "pink" smartphone to be microsoft Branded!!!

[smoove21]

This is sure to be amazing if this turns out to be true! They say it could be introduced as early as this fall!! Still want that touch pro 2??

http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/m...osoft-branded/

"Ready for even more rumors about Windows Mobile 7 and Microsoft's mysterious "Pink" smartphone project? Good, cause we've got a few -- and the first is potentially huge. ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley says her best understanding of "Pink" is now that it's a Microsoft-branded phone running a custom UI on top of Windows Mobile 7, developed by what's left of the Danger team and targeted at the Sidekick market"

[smoove21]

WM7 Chassis 1 Specification
Core requirements:
Processor: ARM v6+, L2 Cache, VFP, Open GL ES 2.0 graphics HW (QCOM 8k, Nvidia AP15/16* and TI 3430 all meet spec)
Memory: 256MB+ DRAM, 1G+ Flash (at least 512MB fast flash – 5MB/s unbuffered read @4K block size)
Display: WVGA (800×480) or FWVGA (854×480) 3.5” or greater diagonal
Touch: Multi-touch required
Battery: Sufficient to meet Days of Use LTK requirements.
Controls: Start, Back, Send and End are required (soft controls allowed as long as they are always present).

Peripherals:
Camera: 3MP+, flash optional, 2nd camera optional (VGA resolution sufficient)
GPS: aGPS required
Sensors required: Light Sensor, Compass (3 axis, 5 degrees, 100 Hz sample rate), Accelerometer (3 axis, 2mg resolution, 100 Hz sample rate)
USB: High speed required, 20 MB/s transfer rate.
BlueTooth: BT2.1 required, must run MSFT BT stack, CSR BlueCore6 or later recommended.
Wi-Fi: 802.11B/G required, must run MSFT Native Wi-Fi stack, Atheros 6002 or Broadcomm 4325 recommended.
Connectors: Micro USB and 3.5mm Audio required.
Options:
FM tuner: If tuner HW is present it will be detected and supported by the Media application.
Haptics
SD Card (Micro SD recommended)
DPAD, qwerty or 12/20 key keyboards all optional
* Nvidia AP 15/16 = “Tegra”


http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2752&tag=btxcsim

[smoove21]

If true i hope they add a proximity sensor as a requirement. Also it states that multi-touch is a requirement, this tells me that wm7 will be multi-touch and capacitive screens are coming people!!!

[Whosdaman]

That's old, and that'd not the specs, its the requirements for WM7

[budney]

Lets try to keep all the "pink" info to one thread.



Threads Merged!

[ehanhan]

Originally Posted by Whosdaman

That's old, and that'd not the specs, its the requirements for WM7

Yeah but that gives you the idea of what it will contain. Those are minimum specs to run WM7... sound good to me...

[mlin]

Originally Posted by ehanhan

Yeah but that gives you the idea of what it will contain. Those are minimum specs to run WM7... sound good to me...

Sounds great to me! Now HTC will be forced to include 3.5mm jacks! YAY!

[nanoware]

a zune phone doesnt sound to far fetched.... especially if they want to tap into apples market, makes sense

iphone has a ipod and phone

zune phone would definitely make sense.

[Minnesota]

Does look "Zuney"