According to the FCC filing, Sharp has built a new phone that approximates the rumored Turtle design. Sharp built the Sidekicks for Danger back in the day and the suggestion here is Sharp is again building phones for Danger, now a part of Microsoft. If this rumor proves true, we should see an announcement from the Mobile World Congress.
The image above is from the FCC filing and it looks similar to a slider phone dubbed Turtle that Gizmodo has floated. While not the prettiest device out there, it seems a bunch of the MS Danger team has been tweeting with “from Danger” and the hashtag #Tmdp. Danger did pretty well with the Sidekick bringing lots of kids into the fold, Microsoft could use some of that mojo again.
The Turtle device they have been testing has 4G of memory, at least the prototype does. Tester Wojtek Chmielewski (poor kid had to learn to spell that growing up) tweeted this:
cleaning a 4gb inbox sucks!!! #tmdp
1:59 PM Jan 9th from Danger
Interestingly, my unofficial research has shown that kids prefer flip-style phone instead of the slider form factor which this Sharp phone seems to have. So what gives? Also, and this could just be coincidence, but Xbox comes up an aweful lot in the tweets, could Xbox have a tie-in with this new phone?
Read: [FCC filings] via [Neowin]
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