Microsoft’s secret “iPhone Killer” mobile phone design stolen

Posted by Tanya Hall

February 20, 2009

If you’ve ever had your mobile stolen, software giant Microsoft may now be able to empathise with you. Its prototype mobile phone dubbed the “iPhone killer” has been stolen from the pocket of a top executive hours after the handset’s launch was announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. microsoft2

Microsoft bosses now fear that hackers could dissect the highly confidential Windows Mobile 6.5 software and leak the information on the internet. There is also talk that this was a deliberate act of industrial espionage.

The phone prototype was given by Microsoft to the chief executive of communications firm Telstra. He is then understood to have passed it on to an executive within the company, before it disappeared.

Microsoft had hoped its new operating system would be a threat to the dominant iPhone and Google Android. It features similar touch-screen technology to the iPhone.

New features on the prototype handset include a version of Windows Market-place for Mobiles, which will allow users to easily download music and products, similar to Apple’s App Store.

It will also have a new synchronisation feature, which will allow you to back up files on your mobile on to a separate website, which will help you recover data if the phone is lost. Like one is now for instance.

Source: Daily Mail

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