Microsoft also announced a partnership with Intel Corp to deliver a Smartphone concept design for hardware makers. Based on the Intel Personal Internet Client Architecture (Intel PCA), the concept design includes a 176×220 color screen, XScale processor, integrated camera, and up to five hours of talk time.
Microsoft and South Korea-based Samsung Electronics Co Ltd also unveiled the new Windows Powered Samsung MITs SGH-i700 Pocket PC for GSM/GPRS networks, a Pocket PC device that features cell phone capabilities.
Separately, Orange this week said sales of the Microsoft-based SPV phone, launched last year, had already climbed to 40,000 units. The company, speaking at the 3GSM World Congress, in Cannes, France, predicted the device would contribute to the sale by Orange of an estimated one million customized telephone devices by the end of 2003.
Source: Computerwire
