All this buzz about Pink, and this is what you give us, Microsoft? A midgie Pre and a Touch Pro crossed with a jellybean? Apparently they’ll be made by Sharp (*eyebrow*) and will share some services with the Zune, though may have their own app store. I say, Microsoft, this is most underwhelming.
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Eurrrrrrgh! Who’d want an MS branded phone anyway?
I believe that nobody is the answer you were looking for…nobody….
actually, having gotten the zune hd, if it had phone capabilities in a similar form factor, i for one would be quick to purchase it. the hd is a sleek, responsive device.
I can only hope that these were early models thrown out there and do not actually reflect what’s coming. They set the bar pretty high with the Zune HD. It’s hard to believe that this is what they’d give us after that.
“I wish I had Steve’s taste.” – Bill Gates
No store-really. I hear no store.
OMG.This review is totally insulting. I read this at the top of Mount Kilamajaro(spelling?) and had to fly back immediately to rally the troops(the ones who haven’t quit on me.) It totally wrecked my holiday and Steve B. hollered at me. I told him that the little one is supposed to look like a woman’s mirror and compact not a jellybean or a PALM PRE that ran out of plastic.
This is a beautiful device. I designed it myself and I have the style points NOT you. Yes, sometimes my Lee press on nails get stuck in the hinge, but it’s STYLE that counts. My style you turds is exceptional. I am beautiful. I am Roz Ho
So if I’m correct with my thoughts Microsoft starts up where Nokia left to meet the Iphone on fair grounds. Meaning Microsofts going to take a few long months to realize this and jumps in just like the Zune hmm I think this will work.
But.
We could save this by a design contest that will do.
The keyboard, while physical, obviously has severe issues. Looks like no one has done any due diligence on special characters or localization for other languages. The keyboard is so simplified, even a child would find it limiting. Treos are probably as culled down as you would want to get to-why bother with a real keyboardif you have to toggle 4 times to type a normal character.
The hardware looks cheap, even in CG. I think it would have been more interesting to make this a non-keyboard device. Why bother.
The product is so derivative of many existing products that function and work well right NOW. Why is this product worth making.
And if it’s a touch screen, you need a house elf to use it too.
-Form factor=d+
-Usability=D–
-Basic ID aesthetic=C-
-Materials=F
-Reliability of software=Predicted to be F