While those devices could have been appealing to teenagers - at least in combination with a cheap data plan - i really don't understand why microsoft wanted to

While those devices could have been appealing to teenagers - at least in combination with a cheap data plan - i really don't understand why microsoft wanted to go into that niche market with a stripped down OS that shares some interface similarities with its big brother windoes mobile 7. Add those experimental devices and the average, non-geeky customer, which this is clearly aimed at, is totally confused. We, of course, know that this isn't WM 7, but the average Joe who read 4 lines of text about WM 7 in some magazine could easily assume that this is microsofts next big thing, which of course it isn't. It just feels so unnecessary, dead before it launched.