phone
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by Sendo, designed in 2002 and never launched as Sendo sued Microsoft.
Background
After Microsoft bought shares of Sendo, they started together to develop the new devices operating system called Stinger.
Microsoft and Sendo showed a first prototype at the
3GSM World Congress
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The event is held in Barcelon ...
in Cannes in February 2001. The Sendo Z100 was the first prototype implementation of the renamed operating system
Smartphone 2002
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Its origin dated back to Windows CE in 1996, though Windows Mobile itself first appeared in 2000 as Pock ...
presented at the
CeBIT
CeBIT was the largest and most internationally representative computer expo. The trade fair was held each year on the Hanover fairground, the world's largest fairground, in Hanover, Germany. In its day, it was considered a barometer of cur ...
2002.
Because the phone was multiple times announced and shunted to new release dates, Sendo canceled the phone in November 2002. Although Sendo didn't give an official reason for cancelling the launch of the Z100, the company had been promised an exclusive by Microsoft, however, Microsoft had also approached HTC to make a competing device which was launched by Orange in the UK as the
Orange SPV
Orange SPV was a series of smartphones built by HTC and Amoi for the European mobile operator, Orange.
The first HTC model was installed with Microsoft Windows Mobile 2002 and launched late 2002.lawsuit between Sendo and Microsoft which ended with an out of court settlement that required all Z100s manufactured to date be destroyed. Sendo announced that the
Series 60 platform
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would be used for future phones.
Other technical specifications
*Speakerphone Yes
*MEMORY Phonebook
*Call records
*DATA GPRS Yes
*Bluetooth No
*Messaging SMS
*Browser Yes
* Streaming video Yes
*Clock No
*Alarm Yes
*Games Yes
*Java Yes
*mobile Internet with Pocket Internet Explorer
*Organizer
*Voice dial
*Voice memo