Microsoft Working On Own Smartphone

Perhaps Microsoft is about to apply the adage “if you want something done, you gotta do it yourself” where smartphones are concerned after not making much headway with its Windows Mobile operating system. Multiple unidentified industry sources claim that a Microsoft-branded smartphone will be released sometime in the second half of this year, and this model will feature tight integration between hardware and software. Nice to see Microsoft step up to the plate and not give in just like that, and let’s keep our fingers crossed that this model won’t suffer the same fate as the Zune. Hopefully the hardware of this Microsoft smartphone will include an NVIDIA Tegra chipset and possibly run on Windows Mobile 6.5 (might not be 7 as that will be out only next year).