{"id":388458,"date":"2010-03-04T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=27441"},"modified":"2010-03-04T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:05:08","slug":"project-pink-microsoft-phones-coming-to-verizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/388458","title":{"rendered":"Project Pink Microsoft phones coming to Verizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/340x_verizonleak.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/340x_verizonleak.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"340x_verizonleak\" width=\"340\" height=\"239\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27442\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRemember <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/search\/project+pink\">Project Pink<\/a>? Whatever Microsoft&#8217;s secret hardware initiative was? Well, it&#8217;s real and it&#8217;s coming to Verizon. You&#8217;ll see the Turtle, shown here, first, and it will be sort of a Sidekick that <i>won&#8217;t<\/i> run Windows Phone. Verizon will launch this like they did the Droid, aiming the might of their armies at flogging this to the feature phone user.<\/p>\n<p>Giz has information that says that this isn&#8217;t a Windows Phone phone. But what does that mean? <a HREF=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5485554\/confirmed-microsofts-project-pink-lives-and-its-coming-to-verizon\">John Herrman<\/a> opines:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> It&#8217;s suggested that the platform has apps of some sort. For a phone like this to share apps with Windows Phone 7 is pretty much impossible, so this one&#8217;s a big question mark. Is it another SDK? Or closed app development like we&#8217;ve seen on the Zune HD?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Could it be a branch of Windows Phone designed for the feature\/Java phone market? Will we ever know?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/pnErTTYZ-Jjev5Q3IErtfI1d06A\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/pnErTTYZ-Jjev5Q3IErtfI1d06A\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/pnErTTYZ-Jjev5Q3IErtfI1d06A\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/pnErTTYZ-Jjev5Q3IErtfI1d06A\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=QXMmWLG0_bQ:K2oV07dx-wQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=QXMmWLG0_bQ:K2oV07dx-wQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=QXMmWLG0_bQ:K2oV07dx-wQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=QXMmWLG0_bQ:K2oV07dx-wQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=QXMmWLG0_bQ:K2oV07dx-wQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Project Pink? Whatever Microsoft&#8217;s secret hardware initiative was? Well, it&#8217;s real and it&#8217;s coming to Verizon. You&#8217;ll see the Turtle, shown here, first, and it will be sort of a Sidekick that won&#8217;t run Windows Phone. Verizon will launch this like they did the Droid, aiming the might of their armies at flogging this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388458","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\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}