Microsoft and the mobile [phone]

The author questions wether mobile phones avoid the fate of the PC or is 'Microsoft-isation' inevitable. Microsoft has handful of mobile phones on the market built around its Smartphone 2002 operating system (OS) including O2's XDA and Orange's SPV (both built by Taiwanese firm HTC), and it hopes to increase its presence through further handset deals. A smartphone is a cross between a PDA and mobile phone that you can use to connect to the Web, check e-mails, organise your appointments, link to your PC, edit spreadsheets and word-processor files, and download new applications and services.