Microsoft to revive handset business with new models

Microsoft plans to launch a new mobile phone series in order to revive the ailing handset business.　　These phones are primarily for young consumers, playing with social functions.　　According to people familiar with the matter, Microsoft's new mobile phone will be launched in the US market through its cooperative operator Verizon Wireless.　　Analysts believe that Microsoft's launch of these new handsets further shows that the company is more deeply involved in the mobile phone business in the hardware sector, with a view to developing a more seamless use of consumer products. It is said that Microsoft's new mobile phone project designed software, online services and hardware, the manufacturer of sharp company in Japan.　　But Microsoft eventually decided to push new handsets to consumers by working more closely with wireless carriers. Microsoft now needs to boost its mobile business, which has been hit in recent years by the company's smartphone operating system, which has been stolen by Apple's iphone and mobile phones using Google's Android operating system. Research firm Comscoreinc.　　Smartphone use of Microsoft's operating system has fallen from 19.1% last November to 15.1% in February this year, according to a recent report.　　Microsoft is betting on a bigger boost in its market position this autumn, when the first batch of phones called WindowsPhone7, which uses the company's new mobile operating system, will be available. (People's Posts and telecommunications)