There has been a great deal of confusion among carriers and retailers regarding
Samsung’s (
005930) strangely tepid
Windows Phone support over the past few months. Samsung’s supposed flagship Windows Phone device, the
ATIV S, debuted in Europe in December and sank without a trace. The ATIV was simply the Galaxy S III with very minor tweaks and the Windows Phone OS slapped on. It now looks like the ATIV S will never launch in India. The U.S. launch of the ATIV Odyssey at Verizon (
VZ) has been a complete disaster; the phone received no marketing support and is not even listed among the top 20 contract models at Verizon Wireless.
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