Microsoft and Verizon join forces against the iPhone

According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft and the U.S. operator Verizon is negotiating a joint development of a decent competitor iPhone. Release the device is planned for 2010. The project was code-named Pink, on the creation of the device employs a team of designers from the company Danger, which Microsoft acquired a year ago. The idea of design, hardware and software provided with Pink Microsoft, and the production of the device will be third-party company. Perhaps, in the development of rival iPhone will use a number of inputs to the project Zune (may Communicator will be similar to Zune HD).

Most likely, the communicator from Microsoft, and Verizon will run the operating system of Window Mobile 7 support service Windows Marketplace. Announcement Pink may occur, for example, 15 February 2010, before the Mobile World Congress. As the Wall Street Journal, the information came from the insider source, but an official confirmation, it has not yet been received.