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 Two deals on contract
It looks like Microsoft is using the Kin to pave the way for the upcoming world’s first smartphone to use its Windows Phone 7 OS. Microsoft is keen to market the Kin Two as a Windows phone and yet it offers an entirely novel mobile phone experience.
Firstly, it’s no smartphone but the way it is built with a full-QWERTY touchscreen form factor and an OS that is not really an OS make it sit halfway between a full smartphone and full feature phone.
It even gets a powerful Nvidia Tegra engine clocked at 600 MHz – a hardware specification you don’t see on non-smartphones. Codenamed “Pure” from its Project Pink effort to bring out a 3rd platform based on the Windows CE, the Kin Two sports a beefier set of features from its smaller brother the Kin One.
Defining SNS Features
Like the Kin One, the Kin Two is a social networking handset that runs on a special OS-like platform derived from the T-Mobile Sidekick/HipTop when MS acquired its maker, Danger Inc in 2008.
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Its homescreen is nothing like what you get from Windows OS as it gets straight to the point by aggregating you social networking links with Facebook, Twitter, Windows live, MySpace and web content from web feeds in what is called the Loop, getting online every 15 minutes to updates your SNS.
Its file sharing feature gets high marks with the Spot, a persistent dot at the center bottom of the screen to where any filed dragged to it gets upload to your SNS via email, SMS or MMS. Unfortunately, uploading images and videos to Twitters is not supported.
But its main attraction is its Cloud computing feature which automatically backs-up your phone and multimedia files automatically via browser connection to Kin Studio website where your files get arranged as collages on a timeline. It’s the most seamless mobile phone-cloud experience thanks to a separate platform called Silverlight.
Upscale Multimedia Features
Firstly, as a Windows phone, this is something you will never get on a Windows Mobile handset – 16 million colors on the screen, same one your get from the Kin One but at a larger real estate at 3.4 inches with half-VGA resolution with capacitive touchscreen and multitouch data input technologies.
It also has the usual accelerometer and proximity sensors. Music and video playback gets the Zune look and feel with Zune Pass access for of audio and video streaming over 3G and WiFi. Imaging is simply up there among the best with 8 megapixel of resolution from an autofocus camera with dual LED flash, face/smile detection and VGA video recording at 30fps.
The Kin Two enjoys a hefty 8 GB of onboard memory with 256 MB RAM but that’s all you get as it has no card slot for external memory expansion. But no matter, all images and videos taken from the handset are not stored in it as they all get automatically stored in a remote MS server in the Kin Studio website.
Some Missed Features
As a 3G phone on the dual band UMTS and a quad band GSM on 2G, the Kin Two does not allow IM nor use IM clients which can be odd for a social networking phone usually meant for the youthful crowd who can’t get enough messaging. There are also no calendar and appointment apps, nor does it have any synching ability with Outlook.
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Latest Microsoft Kin Two News
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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