http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/ Engadget Comments for Microsoft Pink targeting teens and twenty-somethings, devices launching in Spring? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Jan 25th 2010 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
It's okay, Jon. Come cry on my shoulder. I have cake...]]>Jan 25th 2010 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Jan 25th 2010 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
To basically all of you.

Its an OLD render. And use some common sense if you have any. If they can make a Zune HD, i doubt their going to put out something fuggly, especially considering their target audience.

Haters]]>Jan 25th 2010 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/lol, i hope you know that I almost peed my pants with "The cake is a lie!"

Portal FTW!]]>Jan 25th 2010 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/They're being facetious! Basically everyone (ESPECIALLY Palm's CEO) knows that's an old render. However, Engadget used it because it is A) pretty much all that we have and B) because they're tired of the image of the Zune Phone that they've used so much lately.
]]>Jan 26th 2010 12:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Jan 25th 2010 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
Dude, it's just an old render. We have no clue what it, whatever it is, will look like.]]>Jan 25th 2010 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
Worse. It was designed by several committees of 40+ men.

The first rule of marketing to teens and twentysomethings is that they do not like things designed for "teens and twentysomethings".

I imagine this will be nothing more than a modified Windows Mobil 7 install where instead of clicking on "Media Player" you will click on "My Jamzzz" or other such nonsense and will function as Kid Kryptonite.
]]>Jan 25th 2010 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/I think I get it,
get the software right, will get the manufacturers noticed
get the hardware all wrong, and the manufacturers will be clamoring to make something better
]]>Jan 25th 2010 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
it will look fugly, and Pink.

Remember the Brown Zune?]]>Jan 25th 2010 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
I think you're exactly right. I mean look at Toyota's Scion brand that was developed to be targeted squarely at younger car buyers. IIRC as of a year ago, more people aged 40+ bought scions than young people did.]]>Jan 25th 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Remember the Zune HD?]]>Jan 25th 2010 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Jan 25th 2010 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
Actually, I happen to be a teen myself. I'd much rather see something labeled Media Player rather than My Jamz. In fact, such spelling of Jams is idiotic, especially considering Jams isn't even used as a term for music. Regardless of the look or OS or UI of the phone, I most likely wouldn't want it as it would be a Microsoft branded phone, with WinMo, which is notorious for batteries. Even MS computers have crap for battery life. Not only, I've become extremely used to Nokia, iPhone, and generics such as UT Starcomm phones UI and OS.

So, being as most of other teens are too worried about their appearance towards the rest of the world anymore, and will be just fine if their phone is all the rage, but I'd rather have a GOOD phone. Personally. To each their own though.

Remember, not all teenagers equate. ;)]]>Jan 25th 2010 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
And that's much different from having one 40+ y/o old man at Apple calling the shots how?]]>Jan 25th 2010 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
Microsoft doesn't have computers nor do they have anything to do with battery life. If you don't want a Microsoft branded device, just say. You don't have to make up an excuse.]]>Jan 25th 2010 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://bit.ly/microsoft-project-pink-details]]>Jan 28th 2010 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
Wow this is a long time after this thread seems to have died, but actually, you know well what I meant by MS computer, no need to twist it. If you look at battery life on any computer or phone running a Microsoft OS, typically runs dry faster.

Sure most happenings with shortened battery life are user-warranted, but there's a semi-big difference in the battery life of WinMo versus iPhone or Symbian battery life, or anything of the like.]]>Mar 1st 2010 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Jan 25th 2010 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Jan 25th 2010 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Jan 26th 2010 1:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Jan 25th 2010 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Dude . . . layoff the meth.]]>Jan 25th 2010 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Jan 25th 2010 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
That, and teens and 20-somethings will actually buy it; all the adults will just come and post trolling comments about it on tech blogs.]]>Jan 25th 2010 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Jan 25th 2010 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
They're not, it's just an older render (a very old one at that). I'm sure Microsoft will take design cues from the Zune HD.]]>Jan 25th 2010 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Come on. They made the Zune HD. I bet they can come up with something tasteful that that chunky thing. Reminds me of the Palm Pre though.....]]>Jan 25th 2010 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Jan 25th 2010 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/7v=tv
z=zune]]>Jan 25th 2010 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
2010 - WinMo7
2010/2011 - Pink (Zune/XBox/MC/etc) for WinMo7

Sort of like how Windows Server 2003 and Windows 7 are basically the same core OS but have vastly different services and experiences layered on top. ]]>Jan 25th 2010 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Jan 25th 2010 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
(and although I'm not a tween, I would pick up one if they had XBL/Zune integration.. )]]>Jan 25th 2010 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Jan 25th 2010 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Jan 25th 2010 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
And as if everybody hasn't noticed yet: when it's not Apple, Engadget chooses the ugliest possible picture "related" to a story. The worst lightning, the worst angle, the fugliest render possible. No matter how tenuous the connection.]]>Jan 25th 2010 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/microsofts-pink-phones-revealed/]]>Jan 25th 2010 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
Have a coffee, you're not making any sense.]]>Jan 25th 2010 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Jan 25th 2010 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
"Gizmodo has gotten its hands on two images allegedly of the Pink smartphones that we've been hearing about lately. If you believe your orbs, these represent two distinct iterations of devices which the big M is looking at".

Gizmodo: reliable source for MS-related news, obviously.

"allegedly" - yeah, sounds pretty concrete to me

"if you believe" - why should I?

So, a shitty render only tenuously linked to the story. You owned me. I give up.
]]>Jan 25th 2010 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
You're right, I apologise for my unchilliness. :D

]]>Jan 25th 2010 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
Dave Brubeck should Take Five. :-)]]>Jan 25th 2010 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
I just don't see how/why MS would release it's own device. Maybe some sort of reference design but nothing for actual consumers. What about the MS execs completely bashing Google for releasing their own? No way they make statements like that and then only a month later go and do the same thing.

Even IF they do there's no chance they would be the ones shown in the pictures as those are massively outdated now. Besides, how do you go from something as thin and sleek as the Zune HD to a chunker like those? Not gonna happen.]]>Jan 25th 2010 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
same reason they did a Zune...

WinMo = Dead
PlaysForSure = Dead...

They have to do it themselves.]]>Jan 25th 2010 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Jan 25th 2010 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Jan 25th 2010 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Jan 25th 2010 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/Jan 25th 2010 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/microsoft-pink-targeting-teens-and-twenty-somethings-devices-la/
Go figure. They can't even think of original code names 15 years later.]]>Jan 25th 2010 10:27AM