Microsoft announces its first company's smartphone called "Pink" soon

Katherine Egbert, an analyst at Jefferies & Company under Jefferies, a major international securities and investment bank,We announced a report on whether Microsoft will embark on sales of in-house smartphonesWe announced in January, but it became clear that we will finally make an official announcement.

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According to the Wall Street Journal and Reuters news agency, Microsoft is planning to announce a new mobile phone product on April 12 in local time in San Francisco and has already sent invitations to the media stakeholders .

A new product scheduled to be announced is expected to be a smartphone that has been developed with a code name called "Pink" that emphasizes SNS function. Although the OS will be software similar to that of "Windows Phone 7" to be released this year, the application will be different.

In addition, Microsoft's software, online service, and hardware development of new products, Sharp is responsible for manufacturing. The release will be after the summer, and it will be sold only in the U.S. via Verizon Wireless at the beginning of sale, but relationship makers will reveal it when they are released overseas later.