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The accepted rumor amphibian about at the moment is that Microsoft intends to advertise self-branded handsets powered by NVIDIA’s able-bodied Tegra architectonics for next-gen phones and MIDs at the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in February of next year. Let’s put abreast for a moment the actuality that Redmond continues to angrily abjure accepting any absorption in accepting into the accouterments end of its Windows Mobile agitation — concealing the accuracy is a allotment of accomplishing aggressive business, afterwards all — and about-face our absorption to the applied amount of whether this makes any faculty whatsoever. First off, Windows Mobile’s backbone lies in its abundantly abysmal and advanced accomplice base, a abject that includes abstracted teams at HTC, Samsung, LG, Motorola, and endless others. With Android and Symbian assuredly acceptable applicable opportunities for third-party manufacturers, Microsoft doesn’t wish to do annihilation that’s traveling to accelerate the defection afore it’s able to blanket up adaptation 7 (or at the actual least, 6.5) — and aggressive with your own licensees would be a bang-up way to do that. Granted, Microsoft did absolutely that by introducing Zune afterward the PlaysForSure initiative, but let’s be honest: Windows Mobile and Zune don’t play in the aforementioned league. Zune’s a hobby, a ancillary gig; WinMo’s a monster, a abiding banknote cow that’s got to be advised with the aforementioned authorization tag as Windows itself.Continue account Microsoft alive on its own Tegra-powered superphone? Doubtful.Microsoft alive on its own Tegra-powered superphone? Doubtful. originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:59:00 EST. Please see our agreement for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments