Anti-iPhone by Nvidia and Microsoft
Leave all hope ye who … There tiles. It could be recast as the famous phrase that receives the souls at Inferno Dante, but this time referring to companies that have undertaken so far in developing anti iPhone smartphone. Many emulates, some very successful, some less, but the simplicity of use and design of Melafonino remain unattainable.
Until yesterday, when the site The Inquirer has found some reliable information showing that Nvidia and Microsoft are working hard to present a true rival of Apple’s phone already to the next 3GSM in Barcelona. The characteristics of this fantomatico appliance is a clear interface, a flexible operating system, a superior design and fashion.
With more secret in the body: a chip that Nvidia does not only graphics but also to handle the functions of the smartphone. And this anti iPhone will be marked even by Microsoft itself, again according to rumors gathered from the site The Inquirer, to focus on brand as opposed to that of Apple.
You can already make some assumptions. For example, the chip that will drive this Microsoft-phone should be the Tegra, so the operating system would be more appropriate to Linux. However difficult the Redmond company will fall to such compromises. In addition, the multimedia department could be entrusted to Zune, the audio and video player that Microsoft sells in the United States to counter the hegemony dell’iPod. Even in this context, it is clear the analogy between the Cupertino company and that of Redmond.
Zune, despite everything, has very simple menu and Intute, besides being cleverly embellished by graphics cared. In short, this could be the basis for the smartphone that is going to be at the forefront of the next exhibition in Barcelona. Provided that everything is proved to be not only a great conjecture.
It goes without saying that to counter Apple on the same ground, Microsoft has to build an ecosystem of partners that develop software and hardware. But here the ability have already been demonstrated with Windows, the operating system for PCs that can function as a driving force for the smartphone.
Instead least strange that this phone has not yet talked about Windows Mobile: perhaps because it is still too soon or because the intent is not to deliberately distract business from this platform? The answers to these and other questions could arrive in the coming weeks.
