Sendo (1998 - 2005)

a birmingham handset maker that built cheap phones for operators and then bet its future on being first out with microsoft's smartphone platform. microsoft paid for a tenth of the company and took a board seat in february 2001, the software never arrived in a state anyone could ship, and the z100 was canceled weeks before its november 2002 launch. sendo sued, settled in september 2004 on terms…