Verizon unveils Microsoft’s new Kin phones
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Microsoft’s new Kin social media phones will be available online from May 6 and will arrive at Verizon Wireless retail outlets a week later.
Project Pink effort, the Kin One and Kin Two- the three long rumored product of Microsoft has been designed expressly for mobile social networking and multimedia sharing. The gadgets have been manufactured by Sharp and automatically bring together feeds from services including Facebook, MySpace and Twitter via the Kin Loop.
An always-on home screen known as UI automatically prioritizes status updates, messages, feeds and photos from contacts identified by users as their favorite people. The Kin phones are touch screen-based and camera-enabled and introduce a new version of Microsoft’s mobile operating system.
Kin One is available for $49.99, while the Kin Two (which adds HD video) is priced $99.99. According to the operator, customers will need to subscribe to a Verizon Wireless Nationwide Talk plan and an Email and Web for Smartphone plan to maximize the Kin experience.
Microsoft’s new handset to launch next week
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Targeting youngsters, new line of cell phone is planned to be unveiled by Microsoft accompanied with social networking facilities next week. An event will be organized by the company on April 12 but the whereabouts of the event are still not disclosed.
It has also been revealed by the people familiar with the matter that Microsoft plans to unveil new mobile phones manufactured by Japan’s Sharp Corp. Software, online services and hardware for the new mobile phones has been designed by Microsoft as part of a development project code-named “Pink.”
Verizon Communications and Vodafone owned Verizon Wireless might offer the phones in partnership with Microsoft. Before making the phone available internationally, the handset will be made available in the USA. The software used will resemble new Microsoft mobile phone operating system due out later this year called Windows Phone 7.
