Apple says "Hello" with iPhone, Microsoft says "Oh" with oPhone

Okay don't get conned into believing this as a competitor to the iPhone or an iPhone Killer from Microsoft. Its a spoof video on Microsoft's answer to Apple's iPhone, its quite funny. Microsoft employees do have a sense of humor.

Microsoft showed the video during a keynote address by Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division, at the company's Mobile and Embedded Developer Conference this morning. Some current and former Windows Mobile team members make appearances in the spoof.

As you can see from the video below the oPhone, the oPhone is a fold out variable device with three different usable surfaces and a circular display.

In standard mode, it is a thin, curvy device topped by a round screen and with the phone keypad surface below. Two other surfaces, the same size and shape as the keypad, can be flipped out. One has a full keyboard, the other a music player control with a wheel control and a few buttons. Flip out all three surfaces, and you have a device shaped like a three winged boomerang, and Microsoft claims it is aerodynamic enough to work exactly like that.

Just in case somebody didn't get the joke, Bach offered a disclaimer later saying "I'll be clear: Any press in the audience, we are not announcing the oFone. Don't want anybody to get confused about that."

I must say Microsoft seems to have put in a lot of effort into a spoof video depicting such a phone. 

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