Consider this when you are thinking of buying the new Microsoft Kin phone – the social networking update for Kin is not exactly real time, it is scheduled to update every 15 minutes. For a phone that is emphasizing social networking and media, this sound a bit strength to me. “We didn’t want the device always pulling data from the network,” said one engineer, citing battery life and immature social network APIs as primary reasons [...]

It is official now.  Microsoft has announced the babies from its Danger acquisition.  2 social networking centric Windows Phones, KIN ONE and KIN TWO have been announced. The two new phones are built with the same Zune HD foundation.  The entire UI is built surrounding social media.  However, it has a very different user experience compared the Windows Phone 7.  It supports OTA software update but it is not exactly a smartphone.  It is missing [...]

There have been rumours for Microsoft project Pink, a project from Microsoft to create its own smart phone since after its acquisition of Danger, a smart phone company.  Microsoft is holding an mystery event later today and it is rumoured to be the announcement for project Pink.  And even before the event, someone has spotted a smartphone that looks like the phone from project Pink, and it is likely the “Turtle”. And we shall see [...]

Microsoft is telling everybody that it listens.  The Windows Phone 7 Series is dead even before it is launched.  The name has been changed to Windows Phone 7, dropping the “series” at the back. The name “Windows Phone 7 Series” has been a hot topic on Internet since it was announced.  Hatred of the “Windows Phone 7 Series” moniker has been nearly universal — it’s too long, it trips you up every time you try [...]

Many of the high end Windows Mobile device (like HD2) owners are hoping to get Windows Phone 7 upgrade when Microsoft releases Windows Phone 7 later this year. Device like HD2 has a snapdragon CPU with high resolution capacity touch screen, 5MP camera and enough RAM seems to be one of the devices that qualified for Windows Phone 7 hardware requirement and likely to receive Windows Phone 7 upgrade. However, here is a piece of [...]

This came out to be a surprise during one of the Engadget show.  The Microsoft executive actually brought an LG made prototype Windows Phone. The device shown was running the early version of Windows Mobile 7.  And it has a side sliding QWERTY keyboard with back, home, search and camera dedicated buttons.  The camera is found to be 5MP.  And the device has an impressive thickness.  It is just slightly thicker than iPhone and Nexus [...]

Are you excited about the Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Series announcement?  Do you want to know more about it? Engadget has a pretty comprehensive article regarding this latest creation from Microsoft.  It covers most of the information available now from Microsoft and the net. Follow this link to view the article.

Interested to know more about the recently announced Windows Phone 7 Series?  We have a 22 minutes video here to show you lots of things you would like to know about the new platform.  It is really interesting to see what Microsoft has been doing to the new mobile OS. Enjoy!

Yes, it is official now.  Microsoft has officially announced its next generation Mobile OS platform – the Windows Phone 7 Series, to the world during the press conference in MWC. Yes, it is completely rewritten from ground up and it has nothing similar to the current Windows Mobile 6.5.  The entire platform, from the core to the UI, will give the smartphone market a tough competitor. It is a completely new mobile OS to the [...]

So is Microsoft getting ready the big launch event for the new Windows Phone / Windows Mobile 7 in MWC? According to Engadget, by looking at the decoration and banners, Microsoft seems to be ready to push the Windows Phone’s brand name in the event.  And guess what, Steve Ballmer will be there for the event.  And hopefully Microsoft is ready for the Windows Mobile 7 announcement. MWC 2010 is going to be an interest [...]