Microsoft not a very long while back released the two social networking phones with a windows 7 themed operating system. These phones were targeted at 20 something’s and teens who feel the need to stay connected all the time. Sadly now Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on these two phones and merge this division into mobile windows 7’s direction. This decision was taken just a few weeks after the launch of these two phones saw little sales and the migration of Andy Lees to the Windows Phone 7 development section. It most probably will be followed by a large number of pink slips who were working on the pink phone. Hence the supposed launch of the phone in Europe this fall is scrapped and eventually to the rest of the world.

The phones were forced to launch before their complete development and were filled with shortcoming. And the data plan charges were too high for the demographic it was targeting, hence it never took off. And the absence of a dedicated application store along with no release of developer package had to see the phones to the grave.

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