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Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger phone for France is hardly Pink
Microsoft's a pretty big company, and while we've been focused on its Windows Phone 7 Series and Pink mobile projects over here in the Land of the Free, its Live Messenger arm has apparently teamed up with French mobile carrier SFR for a branded phone. The Messenger Edition 251 handset looks to be based on Windows Mobile 6.5 (or something older), with no word on who the hardware partner is, and is taking on the youth market just like Pink will presumably be doing Stateside sometime this year. Of course, Messenger is much more popular in Europe than it is in the States, so it makes sense to brand a phone around it, but underneath that candy QWERTY shell we're sure those hapless Europeans can find plenty of legacy Windows Mobile to be desperately disappointed in. [Thanks, Bibo]
New QWERTY slider from LG coming to Sprint?
QWERTY is a good thing for all our sore thumbs, so even if you're not into smartphones and all that, should just a decent thumb-board still gets you excited? Possibly, but if you're a Sprint fan, definitely. There are currently no slider handsets with full QWERTY goodness available from Sprint, but is word on the street is true, an LG unit may be up to bat soon. We're of the mind that a QWERTY non-smartphone would be a home run for Sprint, although availability is rumored for this model-less unit for Q4 of this year. The usual suspects on onboard: digicam (no rez available), Bluetooth, microSD and that nice slide-out texting interface. Unknowns? Screen resolution, digicam resolution and even EV-DO. Although, we gotta believe 1xRTT is dead with Sprint's newer phones.
