T-Mobile has NOT dumped MS Smartphone, just delayed it a bit

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Original plans of launching the MS Smartphone by T-Mobile were: June 2003, but T-Mobile decided that the device code named "Tanager" and produced by HTC from Taiwan is not mature enough yet.

Although this decision about delaying MS Smartphone by T-Mobile may be considered as a setback for Microsoft's plans to enter cell phone industry, one must keep in mind, that it has nothing to do with T-Mobile abandoning plans to release MS Smartphone.

A quote from WSJ.com:

A spokesman for T-Mobile, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG, said that the phone isn't ready to be launched because it is "not of the quality we expect." He said that the handset, which runs Microsoft's Smartphone software and is to be made by HTC Corp. of Taiwan, should still go on sale this year.

A spokesman for Microsoft said the "exact launch date" of the T-Mobile phone "is still to be confirmed" and the two companies still have a "good working relationship."

T-Mobile spokesman said also: "We won't market this handset for the time being". Make no mistake: Microsoft is on track to enter cell phone industry big time, and these initial teething problems will be soon over....

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