Cingular will begin selling a cellular phone utilizing Microsoft’s latest mobile phone software package.
It will be the U.S. first phone based on Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 software that has a typical cellphone dial pad instead of a tiny computer-style keyboard.
Palm Inc and UTStarcom Inc. already sell phones in the United States using Windows Mobile 5.0 but these are aimed mostly at business customers and have small computer-like keyboards.
In the first half of the year Microsoft plans to provide a software upgrade that will let the phone automatically deliver e-mails from Microsoft’s office e-mail system, potentially helping it compete better with Research In Motion.
Source: Reuters
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