First Microsoft smart phone hits U.S. stores
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
AT&T Wireless on Tuesday began selling Motorola's MPx200, the first smart phone based on Microsoft Corp. software to be sold in the U.S. The MPx200 is also the first Microsoft-based phone to be offered by a major handset maker, which analysts have said may help Microsoft establish its long-sought-after credibility in the mobile phone market.
Microsoft's entry onto the U.S. market comes a year after it introduced the world's first Windows Powered Smartphone in the U.K., manufactured by Taiwan's High Tech Computer (HTC). Since then, Microsoft Windows Mobile phones have been introduced in several European and Asian countries.