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Title: T-Mobile Says Shelves Microsoft Smart Phone Launch
Post by: System on May 15, 2003, 07:23:04 PM

According to the following story on Yahoo! News, T-Mobile, another of the top 5 cellular phone corporations worldwide has indefinitely "shelved" plans for Microsoft's "smart phone" due to several fundamental issues leading to a high failure rate.

Quote: "We have decided not to introduce this phone," a T-Mobile spokesman said on the sidelines of a Deutsche Telekom news conference. "For the time being, we are not pursuing this project further."

What impact -- if any -- this has on Amiga's Microsoft partnership and DE roadmap remains to be seen.

Link to original article at Yahoo! News (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20030515/tc_nm/telecoms_tmobile_microsoft_dc)

Title: Re: T-Mobile Says Shelves Microsoft Smart Phone Launch
Post by: mbilla on May 15, 2003, 10:03:59 PM

Amiga Inc should drop PWindows driven smartphones!!!
No one is using them and they are a complete failure.

90% of the smartphones use the symbian OS.
Which is rock stable!!!!!
Non of my Psion PDAs ever crashed and they in use everyday.
A friend of mine has a T-Mobile PDA/smartphone with PocketPC Windows:
it crashed 3 times a week!!!!

Amiga Inc should go for the SonyEricsson, Nokia, Samsung, Motorola,
Panasonic, Siemens, BenQ and Mitsubishi Symbian smartphones .
They all can do JAVA so they all can run Amiga DE.

Bye Manou

Title: Re: T-Mobile Says Shelves Microsoft Smart Phone Launch
Post by: ksk on May 15, 2003, 10:30:44 PM

@Manou

Right, except that AmigaDE does not need JAVA. It just needs CPU power, memory and a decent host OS.


btw. things like "Microsoft is using AmigaAnywhere to market their PocketPC and Smartphone" (in the latest CAM) is really not the way to attract Nokia interest, amongs other things...  :-(  :-(  :-(

Title: Re: T-Mobile Says Shelves Microsoft Smart Phone Launch
Post by: zudobug on May 16, 2003, 11:05:37 PM

Although I am a little sad this may cock-up part of Amiga.inc's plan - I am glad the possibility that M$ may one day be in control of my mobile phone is reduced.

I think Amiga Inc should still persue that market tho.

Title: Re: T-Mobile Says Shelves Microsoft Smart Phone Launch
Post by: DanDude on May 17, 2003, 05:58:59 AM

[color=0000FF]Smart move, T-Mobile[/color]

 :-D

Title: Re: T-Mobile Says Shelves Microsoft Smart Phone Launch
Post by: SSSMoves on May 18, 2003, 01:15:17 AM

now they can consentrade on the OS4 and amigaone.
there has been to much time spilled. Im still waiting for my G4 miggy arrives home  :cry:  (gee I become sentimental)

Title: Re: T-Mobile Says Shelves Microsoft Smart Phone Launch
Post by: Hammer on May 18, 2003, 12:35:09 PM

Note that Amiga Inc still has PocketPC/WindowsCE market.