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Live from Switzerland: Samsung has dumped Microsoft smartphone PLATFORM (!) and this is for real! October 12, 2003 [MS Smartphone] | By anonymous 1. We are reporting live from Geneva, Switzerland, directly from Media Centre of ITU World Telecom 2003 conference - a global conference, that takes places once in 4 years. Look at these photos of Microsoft smartphone made by Samsung (compared to "Tanager" made by HTC): Above photos were taken today at Samsung´s stand at the ITU World Telecom 2003 trade show that takes places now in Geneva, Switzerland. Besides these photos, at the stand of Samsung, there is a description of this phone that lists following features: SCH-i600 Smartphone OS MITs Features: - Microsoft Smartphone OS - Slim Form Factor (Clamshell type) - Intel XScale PXA 250 CPU - SD IO - Pocket Outlook - Windows Media Player - (MP3, WMA, WVA) - Voice Recognition - 65 K Color TFT LCD Memory: ROM 48 MB / RAM 32 MB Display: - Internal: 65 K TFT LCD (176x220) - External: 65 K OLED (96x64) Dimension: 87x54x23.5 mm Weight: 130 g A couple of these i600 phones was available at Samsung´s stand for touching and one i600 was presented at Microsoft´s stand behind the glass. We have just talked to Samsung people (original Koreans, not some local representatives), and got some old and some new information. Here it goes: old: Samsung delivered already to Verizon (cellular operator in USA that operates in CDMA standards) the Samsung SCH-i600 phones for testing purposes, not for consumers; release to consumers is imminent (this year); please note also: Samsung SCH-i600 is bigger than Motorola MPx200 and has no built-in Bluetooth and no built-in camera - thus it has much less market chances than many other Microsoft smartphones new: Samsung has dumped Microsoft smartphone platform and at this moment is releasing just the already developed SCH-i600 model that is made for CDMA only (no GSM, no Europe), but is neither developing nor planning to develop or release any other Microsoft smartphone phones in near futre (next 6 months) new: Samsung is at this moment doing nothing in development of new Microsoft smartphones, moreover there is no decision inside of the Samsung to even develop them; Samsung people claim that if (!) such decision will be taken then first Samsung smartphones for GSM we would see at the earliest in second half of 2004, but they underline that such decision has not been taken yet old: Samsung still is developing and releasing new smartphones based on Palm OS and on Symbian Conclus‭ion: Samsung has dumped Microsoft smartphone for time being and not only it is not developing new Microsoft smartphones (other than already ready SCH-i600) but Samsung has not even taken decision if it ever will. Please note, that we at msmobiles.com sympathize very much with Microsoft and its desire to find maximum number of vendors for Smartphone platform, but unfortunately Microsoft must be realistic and stop relying on Samsung. Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) << Previous Story Next Story >>

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