HP has announced it will not build any phones for Window mobile 7.  Not this is not a major surprise given HP bought the webOS, but HP was Microsoft’s largest customer.  That does not mean its over for Windows, they say they have other major manufacture in the pipline, but with Android really picking up steam, HP pushing WebOS and even Samsung getting in the game with their bada OS, which for a 1.0 is not too bad, I can only see MS as a minor player from here on out.

Lonely times.

You HAVE to imagine that even the brain dead at MS mobile knew this was a loss leader.  I don’t think they were ever that committed to the kin.  Instead what I think they were really interested in was on the online integration effort, and from what little I have seen of it, its an interesting effort.

I have the new samsung bada phone and they have made a very nice effort in integrating socMed messages with email and contacts to provide a single experience.  The MS Kin site is a bit like that but with multimedia streaming included.  An interesting effort.  And you know that is what we will see in Windows 7 mobile.

Still, that is a LOT of money and lost reputation to test out a market idea.  But this is Microsoft, they play the long game and do not feel worried about trying 1 2 or even 3.11 times to get something right.  But the question we have to ask is; in a world where Apple and Google (with exception to wave) tend to get it right the first time, can MS afford to be so obtuse?