While avoiding the juicier questions surrounding the mystery of Project Pink and its potential ties to Verizon for maximizing Pink's launch, a Microsoft spokesperson has issued new comments that reiterate the stance Redmond has held from time immemorial: there's no Zunephone , and furthermore, there won't be any Microsoft-branded phones. Of course, the devil could lie in the precise wording, and ...

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April 29 (Bloomberg) -- Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile-phone company, has held talks with Microsoft Corp. about offering a handset that may include the Zune music-player software, a person familiar with the matter said.

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Verizon Wireless has held talks with Microsoft about offering a phone that may include Microsoft's Zune music-player software, a person familiar with the matter said.

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Microsoft is planning to launch an iPhone rival as early as 2010, according to a new rumor. The project is supposedly code-named "Pink" and aims to extend Windows Mobile with new features and capabilities, as well as make use of the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Microsoft, for its part, would not confirm the rumor when contacted about it by Ars.  Microsoft is currently in talks with Verizon to ...

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Verizon Wireless is rumored to be making plans with Apple, Microsoft, and makers of Google Android phones to get cool new devices on its network. So who is next?

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If the Wall Street Journal's sources are correct, Microsoft and Verizon are in talks over "Pink," Microsoft's code name for a new mobile device that's being called an "iPhone rival." Why does every new smartphone have to be an iPhone rival? The label alone raises the bar on how the device will be judged and anything short of being an iPhone equal will make it look like a dud. What makes this ...

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April 28, 2009 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R. We couldn't somehow believe that Project Pink is only services and that Zune HD will not have phone part... and latest information confirms it!

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Microsoft is teaming with Verizon on a direct rival to the iPhone for early 2010, according to a purported leak. Few details are forthcoming, but the Wall Street Journal believes the effort relates to Microsoft's project "Pink," which outside of the report is believed to involve creating a Zune-themed reference phone design. The newspaper echoes this by saying the hardware design would have ...

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Now the rumor is that Microsoft is working with Verizon on a touchsceen smartphone.

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The Wall Street Journal believes Verizon and Microsoft are discussing plans to launch a touch-screen smartphone early next year, amid reports that Verizon and Apple are talking.

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