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**fishepa** · 03-15-2010, 01:53 PM

Re: Microsoft Windows Phone 7

Originally posted by Pared

Yeah but it's still just an app. Netflix has been considering putting something like that in the App store and App Marketplace for a while.

Is it exclusive?

I really like the Push Notifications thing though. It's a must after having my iPhone.

I'm not sure if it's exclusive or not.

**Steel5** · 03-15-2010, 03:28 PM

Re: Microsoft Windows Phone 7

After seeing the info from today I am completely sold. I'll be getting one of these in the fall.

**Pared** · 03-15-2010, 03:31 PM

Re: Microsoft Windows Phone 7

Originally posted by fishepa

I'm not sure if it's exclusive or not.

Reading more into it, it seems like it might be. It's using MS' Silverlight technology.

**ExtremeGamer** · 03-15-2010, 06:50 PM

Re: Microsoft Windows Phone 7

Originally posted by Pared

Yeah but it's still just an app. Netflix has been considering putting something like that in the App store and App Marketplace for a while.

Is it exclusive?

I really like the Push Notifications thing though. It's a must after having my iPhone.

Yeah, push notifications are a must have for any phone. Having a Blackberry for the last year and seeing other phones, I don't know how I would handle not getting email, facebook, twitter, and other notifications on my home screen.

**ExtremeGamer** · 04-12-2010, 12:38 PM

Re: Microsoft Windows Phone 7

It's called The Kin, and it's coming to Verizon.

Live from Microsoft's 'It's Time To Share' event!

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/live-from-microsofts-its-time-to-share-event/?sort=oldest&refresh=0

We've been ushered out to lovely San Francisco today (well, actually, not so lovely -- the weather is uncharacteristically yucky) to learn all about this mysterious "It's Time To Share" thing that Microsoft has been cooking up. The popular rumor is that a new line of handsets (Pink? Kin?) are en route. Stay tuned!

Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two announced: Windows Phone roots with a social slant (updated with video)

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/

It's finally official: Microsoft Pink -- the product of Redmond's acquisition of Danger -- has just been unveiled as a pair of handsets sourced from Sharp (which made most of Danger's Sidekicks) known as the Kin One and Kin Two. The devices are being marketed as Windows Phones, and while they're ultimately based on most of the same underpinnings of Windows Phone 7, it's a distinctly and totally different experience -- the entire user interface is custom to Kin with a heavy social media slant, a custom browser (we're told it's based on the Zune's browser), and surprisingly, zero support for third-party apps. The displays are capacitive with support for multitouch (yes, you can pinch and zoom in the browser), but there's no support for in-browser Flash or Silverlight. Kin One -- the phone we'd seen rumored as "Turtle" -- is basically a curved square slider with a QVGA display, 4GB of internal storage, 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, and a full QWERTY keyboard. Kin Two, meanwhile, is the phone leaked as the "Pure," upping the ante with a HVGA display and a more traditional landscape QWERTY slide form factor. It also moves up to an 8 megapixel cam and 8GB of internal storage, but otherwise, the experience is roughly the same as what you get on the One; both phones have WiFi and Bluetooth in addition to their 3G cellular radios. For what it's worth, Microsoft is emphasizing that internal storage really isn't a big deal with the Kin phones, because your entire photo and video collection that you capture using the onboard camera is synced seamlessly with your bottomless online storage; you can access the entire collection from your phone at any time by browsing thumbnails, and if you want the full content, you can download it. Kin comes bundled with a desktop web experience that's entirely based on Silverlight for viewing and sorting just about all of the major stuff that you can see on your phone -- contacts, social network status updates, images, and so on -- and we've got to admit, it looks pretty slick. Keep reading after the break for a lot more info and video! %Gallery-90314%

Very social media network heavy, and has a full Zune interface. 8MP camera, but only 4 or 8GB storage.

**Pared** · 04-12-2010, 12:44 PM

Re: Microsoft Windows Phone 7

They basically took a Palm Pre and made it look worse.

**CaptainZombie** · 04-12-2010, 12:45 PM

Re: Microsoft Windows Phone 7

Originally posted by Pared

They basically took a Palm Pre and made it look worse.

OMG, that thing is ugly as sin.

**Pared** · 04-12-2010, 12:48 PM

Re: Microsoft Windows Phone 7

Seems to be be for teeny boppers and the like.

This isn't the sole basis for Windows Phone 7. It's just a terrible, terrible end result of MS trying to cash in on the Tweet generation.

Just... strange all around.

**ExtremeGamer** · 04-12-2010, 12:51 PM

Re: Microsoft Windows Phone 7

Originally posted by Pared

Seems to be be for teeny boppers and the like.

This isn't the sole basis for Windows Phone 7. It's just a terrible, terrible end result of MS trying to cash in on the Tweet generation.

Just... strange all around.

Agree.

Why have the Zune interface, yet only offer maximum of 8GB of storage? Dumb.

**fishepa** · 04-12-2010, 12:53 PM

Re: Microsoft Windows Phone 7

UGLY

**ExtremeGamer** · 04-12-2010, 12:54 PM

Re: Microsoft Windows Phone 7

I just re-read it, zero support for 3rd party apps. LOL, yeah, this is capitalizing on the teen crowd for sure.

**CaptainZombie** · 04-12-2010, 12:57 PM

Re: Microsoft Windows Phone 7

Originally posted by Pared

Seems to be be for teeny boppers and the like.

This isn't the sole basis for Windows Phone 7. It's just a terrible, terrible end result of MS trying to cash in on the Tweet generation.

Just... strange all around.

It's like they took the PSP Go and/or Sony Mylo, making it even smaller and uglier.

**Pared** · 04-12-2010, 12:59 PM

Re: Microsoft Windows Phone 7

I don't understand what MS is doing. It's like they just don't "get it."

So many bright minds over there... and they pay someone to come up with this? It almost seems like a joke. No wonder they have UI issues with windows and other types of software they sell.

*sigh*

I think the XBox is the only thing they've really, really done right to lead the pack of their respective field.

**Gotmadskillzson** · 04-12-2010, 01:21 PM

Re: Microsoft Windows Phone 7

Ugly.............too small.....I can't do small phones.

**p_rushing** · 04-12-2010, 01:44 PM

Re: Microsoft Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 is going that way anyways. They are trying to make it like the Iphone, but from the UI I have seen, have failed. Android looks to be the only option now.

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