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Your Phone Has Just Committed an Illegal Operation and Will Now Shut Down

John Paczkowski in News on February 5, 2009 at 1:00 pm PT

“Microsoft is not doing a phone.” That was Redmond’s terse denial of a report that it is preparing to launch a branded cellphone in the second half of this year. Put forth by analysts from Broadpoint.AmTech, the report speculates that the device would tightly integrate hardware and software, much like Apple’s iPhone, and that Microsoft may uncrate it at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month. The Broadpoint research note in its entirety after the jump.

Your Phone Has Just Committed an Illegal Operation and Will Now Shut Down

John Paczkowski in News on February 5, 2009 at 1:00 pm PT

“Microsoft is not doing a phone.” That was Redmond’s terse denial of a report that it is preparing to launch a branded cellphone in the second half of this year. Put forth by analysts from Broadpoint.AmTech, the report speculates that the device would tightly integrate hardware and software, much like Apple’s iPhone, and that Microsoft may uncrate it at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month. The Broadpoint research note in its entirety after the jump.