{"id":315351,"date":"2010-02-13T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=13194"},"modified":"2010-02-13T06:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T11:58:00","slug":"project-pink-turtle-phone-passes-through-fcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/315351","title":{"rendered":"Project Pink Turtle Phone Passes Through FCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D13194\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D13194\" height=\"61\" width=\"51\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/turtlefcc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"turtlefcc\" border=\"0\" alt=\"turtlefcc\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/turtlefcc_thumb.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a>FCC certification have always been a major barrier to keeping a phone secret, forcing companies to announce phones well before they actually become available.<\/p>\n<p>It seems Microsoft\u2019s rumoured Project Pink Turtle phone has suffered the same fate a few days before its suspected public announcement in 2 days, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zuneboards.com\/?p=vB49097\" >ZuneBoards<\/a> has noticed a Sharp CDMA slider trying to slip through the FCC unnoticed.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>The Sharp <a href=\"https:\/\/fjallfoss.fcc.gov\/oetcf\/eas\/reports\/ViewExhibitReport.cfm?mode=Exhibits&amp;RequestTimeout=500&amp;calledFromFrame=N&amp;application_id=793354&amp;fcc_id='APYNAR0067'\" >filing with the FCC<\/a><b><\/b> for a &quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/fjallfoss.fcc.gov\/oetcf\/tcb\/reports\/Tcb731GrantForm.cfm?mode=COPY&amp;RequestTimeout=500&amp;tcb_code=&amp;application_id=793354&amp;fcc_id=APYNAR0067\" >CDMA Slide Phone with WLAN &amp; BT<\/a><b><\/b>,&quot; will remain mostly <a href=\"https:\/\/fjallfoss.fcc.gov\/prod\/oet\/forms\/blobs\/retrieve.cgi?attachment_id=1241654&amp;native_or_pdf=pdf\" >confidential until March 29th<\/a><b><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Zuneboards were quick to notice the FCC label profile matched the shape of the leaked device pretty well, confirming most of the leaks rumoured by the Wall Street Journal yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Those leaks suggested the Project Pink phone will be released in the Spring, on Verizon and Vodafone and will be manufactured by Sharp, who currently makes the Sidekick.<\/p>\n<p>In many ways the purported Zune phone is a diversion from Windows Mobile as we know it, and is certainly not directed at the same market as currently supports the OS.&#160; The Turtle phone, according to Wall Street Journal, is aimed at teens, which may very well explain the restrictions we have heard of recently.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.istartedsomething.com\/20100213\/microsoft-pink-turtle-crawls-hfcc\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+istartedsomething+%28istartedsomething%29&amp;utm_content=Bloglines\" >istartedsomething.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D13194&amp;linkname=Project%20Pink%20Turtle%20Phone%20Passes%20Through%20FCC\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\/Bookmark\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FCC certification have always been a major barrier to keeping a phone secret, forcing companies to announce phones well before they actually become available. It seems Microsoft\u2019s rumoured Project Pink Turtle phone has suffered the same fate a few days before its suspected public announcement in 2 days, as ZuneBoards has noticed a Sharp CDMA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}