Microsoft Wants Your Mobile

If Microsoft gets its way, then Windows Mobile won't be the only thing in your phone that carries the tech giant's name.

While the PDA has existed as a sort of mini-PC for years, Microsoft said it would encourage phone manufacturers to formalize the transition of the phone to a mobile PC.

Microsoft Research chief Craig Mundie said that Microsoft has a research project called "Fone+" that would allow the phone to work with a TV as a secondary display, and one that could allow video stored on the device to be played back on the television.

For Microsoft, the challenge is extending the PC platform into new applications and form factors. For many years, the WinHEC confeerence here has served as the underlying foundation for hardware initiatives for the Tablet PC and the more recent UMPC, both of which have struggled. Microsoft's penetration into the smartphone market, however, has been more successful.

Have you ever asked yourself what it would take for you to buy a UMPC or a high-end smartphone? If you take a look at the technology that's been rolling out over the last couple of months you'll notice that they've been transitioning everything to what PCs are capable of. Audio and video playback, recording, VOIP, Bluetooth and gaming...heck, they've even got QWERTY keyboards on phones these days. It's only natural for Microsoft, the name behind the world's most popular operating system, to introduce ideas that would strengthen its grip in the ever-expanding world of technology. Will this Fone+ initiative take off? We'll keep you updated.

Source: Physorg

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