Microsoft Spoof: The 'Windows Mobile oFone'

Microsoft Spoof: The 'Windows Mobile oFone'

Posting from Las Vegas: Apple has the iPhone, Microsoft has the ... oFone? No, not really, but the company clearly put a lot of effort into a spoof video depicting such a phone -- a fold-out device with circular text display and variable number placement, depending on user preference. It also doubles as a boomerang.

Microsoft showed the video during a keynote address by Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division, at the company's Mobile and Embedded Developer Conference this morning. Some current and former Windows Mobile team members make appearances in the spoof.

Just in case somebody didn't get the joke, Bach offered a disclaimer when he came back on stage. "I'll be clear: Any press in the audience, we are not announcing the oFone. Don't want anybody to get confused about that."

On a more serious note, Bach added that the spoof did point out, in an extreme way, the challenges of creating an operating system for a variety of different mobile device styles. Here are some images from the video:

Posted by at May 1, 2007 12:03 p.m.
Category: Mobile Devices

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#31465

Posted by unregistered user at 5/2/07 2:04 a.m.

:-)

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#31564

Posted by unregistered user at 5/3/07 9:12 a.m.

[:totoz]

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#31705

Posted by unregistered user at 5/4/07 9:38 a.m.

Brilliant!

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#31735

Posted by unregistered user at 5/4/07 1:02 p.m.

really great

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#31937

Posted by unregistered user at 5/7/07 10:06 a.m.

If you are interested, I just ran across the full video at :
http://www.southdowncreative.com/southdown_home.php?video_detail=ofone&content=video&popover=ofone_fl&

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#31984

Posted by unregistered user at 5/7/07 7:14 p.m.

oPhone video:

microsoft.blognewschannel.com/archives/2
007/05/07/the-windows-mobile-ophone-vide
o/

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#32018

Posted by unregistered user at 5/8/07 9:02 a.m.

Makes Me Want To Stab One of Those Windows Users in the Eye with a Lit Cigarette or Something... [Maynor macbook pseudo-hack... get it?!]

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#32196

Posted by unregistered user at 5/9/07 6:31 p.m.

Ghey. This is what your spending your stock investments in? Wonderful, looks like good use of time. The moral must be sooo low at the M$ Campus.

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