Microsoft covets Apple’s iPhone – well not really but they obviously have strong opinions on it and apparently a sense of humor about it. At last week’s Mix ’07 show, the folks from Redmond showed their funny side by running this video on the mythic Microsoft oPhone – a combination phone, music player, ninja star and well, everything you wanted in a hand-held device.
The InsideMicrosoft Website describes thusly:
The oPhone, in standard mode, is a thin, curvy device topped by a round screen and with the phone keypad surface below. Two other surfaces, the same size and shape as the keypad, can be flipped out. One has a full keyboard, the other a music player control with a wheel control and a few buttons. Flip out all three surfaces, and you have a device shaped like a three winged boomerang, and Microsoft claims it is aerodynamic enough to work exactly like that. It also supports three-way Pong games and a blank keypad that you can fill in numbers in the order YOU like them. Be the ballerina.
Michael is a senior editor with Network World focused on deciphering the strategies of many core high-tech vendors such as Cisco, Arista, Juniper, HPE and IBM. Michael has been writing about the industry for more than 33 years and has won coverage awards from ASBPE and FOLIO. He has a BA in Journalism and Technical Writing Certificate from The Pennsylvania State University.
