Comments on: Microsoft Pure Pink Turtle Phones Leaked!

By: sandman

sandman — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:05:46 +0000

Im a pc and an iPhone hater, but I have to say this is the fattest and ugliest thing that I think microsoft has ever attemped to put on the market. Just give the zune HD texting and a phone and it'll do wonders.

By: Therealtruth (really)

Therealtruth (really) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:52:23 +0000

I hope this is bull. Microsoft actually created a pretty good device in the zune HD, in bothfoem and function. Not my cup of tea but nice nonetheless. Why wouldn't they use that as the basis for a foray into the phone world?

By: Anolis

Anolis — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:26:54 +0000

can anyone say UGLY?

By: Bent24

Bent24 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:27:00 +0000

iPhone is with AT&T rather

By: Bent24

Bent24 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:26:11 +0000

Verizon will not get the iPhone. Yes after that last word is a big fat period. Some of this rumor crap is getting old. Not all but some. iPhone is with iPhone until when?? Oh yeah, exclusively through 2011. So what's the point in rumors that go 2 years? There is other stuff to talk about.

By: claudia

claudia — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:52:19 +0000

We’re honestly not sure

By: icebike

icebike — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:39:39 +0000

Verizon says NO to the Pre. http://tinyurl.com/ycws39b

What does that say about the iPhone on Verizon rumors?

By: J-Red hates Steve jobs

J-Red hates Steve jobs — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:44:43 +0000

They should take that new Zune touch screen mp3 player and make that into a phone add the windows OS or whatever it is into it and boom with due time and serious commitment the iPhone will have a great competitor! But whatever the fuxk that shyt it up there... Get that shyt out of our faces!!!! That looks like something a teenage girl would want!!!!

By: scottb

scottb — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:38:15 +0000

@ Aaron: Indeed - but not just Fail. FAIL!

By: icebike

icebike — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:25:32 +0000

And in other news the Palm Pre for GSM is now available

http://tinyurl.com/ye6pxms

By: Arron

Arron — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:19:36 +0000

Don't tell me fanboys!? Fail yes? Thought you might say that

By: icebike

icebike — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:59:50 +0000

Of course Rene chose to picture the ugly one here, but if you follow the link to Gizmodo and look at the Pure, you will see it is not that bad looking. Closed, its patterned after the iPhone.

I think its obvious these phones are targeted at Teenagers 12-16. In that crowd these phones may have a market. It all depends on price.

By: scottb

scottb — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:24:25 +0000

You'd not even have to KNOW who's making that to KNOW it's MS! Good god, they're so behind, it's now sad. Sell your MS stocks if you're dumb enough to own any

By: icebike

icebike — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:31:15 +0000

@Doubtful:

MS products arent known for having round curves

Look at your mouse.

By: doubtful

doubtful — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:33:04 +0000

I'm going to be honest, and say this is a very good photoshop. The more and more i look at the image, the more it isnt Microsoft. MS products arent known for having round curves, at all. In fact, most have an industrious design to them. Look at the Xbox and ZuneHD/ previous Zunes. I do think there will be a slider phone. I dont see there being 2 sliders, no point whatsoever.

Im calling one similar to the Sidekick or N97, and the other being a full fledged touchscreen device to compete head to head with the iPhone/Storm2. The "Turtle" is too Palm Pre...I would expect a more sleeker, slim styling like the ZHD. If it is using OMAP/Snapdragon/Tegra im expecting a package roughly 3-4x bigger than the ZHD for touchscreen, and about the Size as shown for the slider full landscape qwerty.

By: sting7k

sting7k — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:51:54 +0000

With those colors looks like an XPhone. Will have to run WinMo7.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:31:09 +0000

Agreed. Looks like a chunky version of the palm pre.

By: melwan

melwan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:27:50 +0000

@Al:

You are assuming they have "labs" in the first place. Generous assumption since everything they had been doing is ripping other companies' work.

Looks like the Pre just gave birth to a chubby baby lol

By: fastlane

fastlane — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:51:10 +0000

Beam me up, Scotty!

By: Dyvim

Dyvim — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:06:59 +0000

I could see these shipping without WinMo. Looks like a Sidekick-style device aimed at tweens - i.e. not the target demographic for WinMo at all. Zune software, on the other hand, would fit nicely.

By: Al

Al — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:34:44 +0000

How did any of their designers allow something that ugly to leave their lab? How did any of the higher-ups approve of a disgusting device like this? The world may never know...

By: Brandon C. Butler

Brandon C. Butler — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:16:56 +0000

I'm not impressed, at all. It looks like a Motorola Karma... Way to go.

By: Heath

Heath — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:08:51 +0000

Its got Sidekick messaging technology, which automatically gives it a leg up on the iPhone in one very important area to many smartphone consumers. Now its time to see if anything else can hold up.