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.