Giant Launches U.S. computer world a range of mobiles in partnership with twenty operators and telecom equipment. The CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer unveiled Tuesday, October 6, a range of Windows Mobile Phones, in partnership with twenty operators and telecom equipment.
The launch in Europe, the United States, South America and Asia-Pacific, is made in connection with sixteen operators including Vodafone, T-Mobile, Orange (France Telecom), and seven suppliers, HTC, Acer, LG , Samsung, Sony-Ericsson, HP and Toshiba. In France, the operator SFR will be the first to commercialize the mobile device with Samsung and LG this week.
The launch was made Tuesday at the times in France, a country "strategic" because Microsoft has to share the most important market in terms of operating system for mobile, and New York.
Windows Mobile 6.5
Available in over twenty countries by the end of this thirty new mobile will be the first to ship Windows Mobile 6.5, the new operating system from Microsoft for smartphones.
"We worked on the user interface, we simplified" and "have improved navigation technology for an experience very close to what you have on a PC," said the leader at a conference Releases in Issy-les-Moulineaux, the new group headquarters in France. He stressed that Microsoft's ambition was to offer a motive for both "professional life and private life", while the phones are often specialized. Among the new services: "My Microsoft Phone, a free synchronization and data backup and an online store to download applications (games, etc..).
The Microsoft initiative comes as Google launched last year an open operating system for mobile, Android, used by all OEMs.
For several years, there were rumors of possible launch of a mobile in his own name as did his rival Apple, but Microsoft, whose operating system for mobile was in decline, finally Priviliege strategy close to that of Google, while intensifying its relations with the industrial sector.
