A man looks at his phone as he walks past a Verizon wireless store in New York, Jul 30, 2009 record photo.
Credit: Reuters/Brendan McDermid
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is aiming to launch dual phones that will be sole by tip U.S. mobile user Verizon Wireless in late open or early summer, a chairman briefed on the make a difference pronounced on Thursday.
The phones would be targeted at complicated users of amicable network sites, according to the chairman who asked not to be identified as the inclination have not nonetheless been announced.
The phones are being grown by Microsoft underneath the formula name Project Pink, the chairman said. Representatives for Microsoft and Verizon Wireless declined comment.
Microsoft essentially competes in the wireless industry by offered the Windows mobile program to mixed handset makers, but it has been losing marketplace share to Apple Inc, Google Inc and others.
The program association additionally sells the Sidekick phone, that is made by Sharp Corp. The Sidekick came from the merger of start-up Danger Inc.
Microsoft has prolonged denied rumors that it is building new cellphones over the Sidekick, but speak about Project Pink has persisted.
Technology blog Gizmodo on Thursday posted photographs of a black phone with dull edges that slides open and includes a mini-keyboard. (link.reuters.com/pes33j)
Gizmodo pronounced the photographs, that show Microsoft branding and the Verizon Wireless logo, were piece of selling materials that a tipster had sent to the blog.
(Reporting by Sinead Carew and Bill Rigby, modifying by Tiffany Wu, Gary Hill)
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