The puzzle pieces are all fitting together now, aren't they? Just a few days after
regulatory passage of the PB10ZU from Sharp -- a device that could very well be the pebble-shaped
Turtle -- we're now seeing a separate filing for the PB20ZU. The label document isn't terribly detailed here, but if you squint your eyes, you can definitely see how this lines up perfectly with the concept of a landscape QWERTY slider which is exactly what
Project Pink's rumored second phone, the
Pure, is expected to be. Despite Microsoft's blowout announcement at
MWC earlier this month, there was nary a mention of Pink or the Danger-influenced hardware and software said to surround it, so we're expecting to see this stuff soon -- especially now that we've got FCC certification under our belts.
CTIA, perhaps? Notably, this phone rocks CDMA with Bluetooth and WiFi, so if it sees duty on an American carrier -- which it almost certainly will -- it's gotta be either Verizon or Sprint. Stay tuned.
posted February 25th 2010 4:59PM
Landscape QWERTY? Count me in.
Fanboy1: Oh, man! Those barcodes are SWEET! So much better than the iPhone's sucky barcodes.
Fanboy2: The iPhone doesn't have barcodes, you dork.
Fanboy1: So this is even more better.
Maybe they will show something at MIX2010?
I know it's a developers conference, but hey - aren't we all in for little surprises?
Won't be so Pure when I'm done with Project Pink.
@Ducman69
zing!
@Ducman69 That was all sorts of awesome! ...and here I thought I was the king of that's what she said jokes.
Hmmm. I think I remember the sidekicks (from sharp) always preceding with PB* but as we all know those are almost extinct?
Hop the keyboard has gaming controls built in.
its going to be on Verizon, screenshot shows that it is set up for verizon
I'm really interested to see where microsoft is going with this, and I must say, WPS7 (I think) is salivatingly nice.. sounds perfect for a teenager like me, for a sweet interface, with a nice music player (biggest complaint with android), and good social network integration these pink phones could be replacing my INQ chat 3g...
So won't the guys at HTC/AT&T not like the name "Pure" to be used?
http://www.htc.com/us/products/pure-att
FYI, the Sidekick LX (original, not 2009 remix) has the FCC ID: APYNAR0063. The LX 2009 has APYNAR0065, so I think we are going to be looking at something very similar indeed. Count me as in.
And in response to POZ, no- I still use an original Sidekick LX. Partly because I'm too cheap to buy a new phone, partly because I like the sidekick keyboard so much. And I've been using the platform since 1.0.
One can only assume this will be packing Zune marketplace to handle the music.
:-) if palm dies... wp7 has alll of my money hahaha
I was wondering why MS would go to Sharp, since MS has a close relation with HTC... then I read the comments above and saw that Sharp did the Sidekick... so, this is Sidekick 2, 3 or whatever version they are on?
I think that it's sad that most reviews will go something like "OMG, MS is horrible, how they bring this cheap crap to market against the iPhone?" (seriously, when is anything, and I mean anything, not compared to the iPHone?). Dear Engadget, when you do your review, could you abstain from comparing it to the iPhone? since this is not what it's meant to be? could you do that for me? compare the LG WPS7 to the iPhone... not this one.
WM7 All the WAY!