Prototype Windows Mobile Pocket PC Phone, ca. 2003

This prototype, developed in 2003, is part of a collection donated by a Microsoft employee who worked at the software company from 1999 to 2004. Microsoft would develop the software and prototype devices and then work with a manufacturing company to build the phones. This prototype features a hard plastic detachable keyboard sleeve that attaches to the bottom of the device.
ID Number: 2018.99.6
Date: 2003
Physical Description: 1 Telephone, Cellular; metal, plastic; 7 in.H x 3 in.W x 1 in.D
Credit: MOHAI, 2018.99.6