08 July 2010 by Liam
There has been plenty of WP7 related news updates recently. In order to provide readers with a clear view of what things we should be expecting from Microsoft’s upcoming mobile platform, here is a quick list of all the big news headlines of the past few days.
First off, there are now rumors that the WP7 might launch by a full year ahead of schedule. A recent leaked document reveals that the first WP7 handsets might be expected to arrive by Q3 ...
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Microsoft Kin One deals on contract
The first Microsoft-branded mobile is neither a Windows Mobile or a Windows Phone 7 smartphone but just a feature phone with beefy features that could easily be mistaken as a smartphone. The new Microsoft Kin One, earlier rumored as the “Turtle” from its Project Pink initiative has some hints of the upcoming WinPho7 and certainly none of the archaic Windows Mobile features.
The Kin offers a 3rd alternative to the two MS Windows mobile platforms which came after its acquisition of the phone maker Danger Inc with its famous Hiptop handset rebranded as T-Mobile Sidekick. It is based on a bespoke OS halfway between a true OS and a feature phone and was originally meant to be based on the WinPho7 but due to delays, settled with the Windows CE kernel.
Near-Smartphone Features
For starters, it has a display that supports 16 million colors – something you’d never get from a Windows Mobile handset. While it sports a rather outdated QVGA resolution on a 2.6-inch screen, it uses cutting edge capacitive touchscreen technology with multi-touch support as well as an accelerometer for auto rotate and a proximity sensor for auto turn of its touchscreen sensitivity when in a call.
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Positioned by the Redmond giant as a social phone, the Kin’s UI shows its social networking bent. The homescreen is called the Loop which aggregates SNS connection to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Windows Live and web content from web feeds.
Updates to these SNS are done every 15 minutes which approximates real time updates though it certainly flies in the face of MS claims that the Kin is “always” connected. Its media file sharing feature is centered on the Spot at the center bottom of the display where any phone content can be dragged and sent to contacts via email, SMS/MMS or uploaded to your social networking sites, except that it doesn’t yet support uploading of videos and photos to Twitter.
The defining highlight is its Cloud computing feature which automatically backs-up all the files and updates you do on the phone on the Kin Studio website via browser. Phone messages, call history and multimedia files are backed up in full resolution and can be viewed like a timeline grouped into collages on the site.
Geo tagged images can be viewed on the MS Bing map. Music and video is supported by Zune with full Zune Pass access for multimedia streaming over 3G and WiFi. Its imaging is upscale with 5 megapixel autofocus snapper with dual LED flash, geo tagging, face/smile detection and VGA video recording at 30fps. The Kin One has a generous 4 GB of internal memory with 256 Mb RAM but that’s all you get as it has no card slot for external memory expansion.
There’s just the issue of form that may not appeal to people with a mindset on what a handset should look like. But as Microsoft has suggested in its unveiling, it has its sights on the young social networking crowd. It sports a nearly squarish full-QWERTY slider form that any fashion geek might mistake for a compact make-up kit but it’s just perfect in your hands when closed.
Measuring 82.6 x 63.5 x 19.1 mm and weighing 110.6g, the Kin One has the unique look that shatters the conventional handset form and just might get away with it. While not being a smartphone, the Kin One is arguably the first handset to advertise that it uses the Nvidia Tegra processor running at 600 MHz. Such a feature is something you’d expect to find only in some powerful smartphone. But on a feature phone, it’s got to be the first.
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27 April 2010 by Caroline
A smartphone designed for simplicity and affordability has been launched by LG in the shape of the LG Optimus GT540. Run on the Android 1.6 OS, the LG Optimus comes with various Google apps and features including Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube. And of course you’ll also be able to download additional apps from the Android Market. A popular focus for phones – for example, the Sony Ericsson Zylo and Spiro, and the Microsoft Kin One and Kin Tw...
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A smartphone designed for simplicity and affordability has been launched by LG in the shape of the LG Optimus GT540. Run on the Android 1.6 OS, the LG Optimus comes with various Google apps and features including Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube. And of course you’ll also be able to download additional apps from the Android Market. A popular focus for phones – for example, the Sony Ericsson Zylo and Spiro, and the Microsoft Kin One and Kin Tw...
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20 April 2010 by Best Mobile Contracts
It seems like Microsoft’s new video advertisement for the new Kin smart phones, Kin One and Kin Two, has gotten some attention thanks to a few brief moments of suggestive sexting by the users of the phone in the video. While we all know that this is not the intention of the ad director, it seems that the subtle message has been picked up by various super-sensitive groups that have managed to find time to pick on the advert. To quote internet ...
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It seems like Microsoft’s new video advertisement for the new Kin smart phones, Kin One and Kin Two, has gotten some attention thanks to a few brief moments of suggestive sexting by the users of the phone in the video. While we all know that this is not the intention of the ad director, it seems that the subtle message has been picked up by various super-sensitive groups that have managed to find time to pick on the advert. To quote internet ...
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