Microsoft has created a smartphone, which are oriented to social relationships, for friends and family. This is evidenced by the very name of smartphones KIN (kin - relatives, family), the producers stress that the new phones will make communication easier and more convenient.New smart phones have many interesting and even unique features.
All were submitted to two smartphone KIN (KIN ONE and KIN TWO), are running a special simplified version emerging in this year Windows Phone 7. The company calls these smartphones a combination cell phone, Internet services and PCs.
"We created a KIN for people who live, wanting to stay in touch, share, reflect and interact with their friends and family. This social generation wants and expects more from your phone. KIN provides information about the people who are most concerned about the user in the moment "- said president and Devices at Microsoft, Robbie Bach (Robbie Bach).
KIN have a convenient and intuitive interface, which seeks to help people create a log of his life.The interface of these phones are preferred for people and the things that they love, rather than icons and all sorts of menus.
Hardware innovations developed by Sharp. Both models are equipped with touch screens and pull-out keyboards.
Model ONE compact and small, it is ideally placed in the pocket and is easily operated with one hand. Smartphone TWO has increased by half a screen and keyboard, and also doubled the amount of memory (in ONE - 4 GB available to the user, and have TWO - 8 GB).
Manufacturers in particular emphasize embedded 5 - and 8-megapixel camera (for ONE and TWO, respectively) with image stabilization, video recording quality (ONE - in the SD-solving, TWO - in HD) and make clear pictures in dark rooms thanks to a powerful outbreak LumiLED, brightness is approximately 8 times higher than used in other smartphones.
The main menu of the phone - it is home KIN Loop. It displayed the updating of the social world "device owner: the latest blog entries, or social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace or Twitter, received text messages from friends, emails, instant messages and more. KIN automatically combines tape of various services into one, simplifying communications. The owner of the phone can also choose their "chosen" people and KIN will automatically give them priority in the derivation of updates, messages, photos or diary entries.
Another unique feature is the KIN Spot, a new method that allows people to quickly tell your friends about what is happening in "their world". This feature makes it easy to choose the people, and then - that should give them. KIN automatically offer the easiest and most efficient way to transfer data. You can Send videos, photos, text messages, web pages, different location and status, simply dragging the data into one place, which is called Spot. When all the people and the data are in Spot, the user can choose which way to send information and initiate the transfer.
Another interesting new feature of Microsoft Smartphone is KIN Studio. In fact, KIN Studio - a phone that is available online. All of the owner of the phone: photos, videos, messages, contacts, call history can be recorded and be available to him online in any Internet browser. A special interface allows you to easily as on smartphones KIN view the activity and send the necessary data to friends. In fact, KIN Studio - is a huge own interactive digital magazine, which you can capture events for a specific day, month, year. The main thing - the owner of the phone no longer need to worry about that end memory or loss of data: it can with 3G EV-DO or Wi-Fi to download everything you need in an online store through KIN Studio, and then with all facilities to work with the magazine on big screen of your computer.
KIN was also the first phone based on Windows Mobile, which have the full functionality of portable media player Zune, including music, video, FM-radio show and podcast. With a subscription Zune Pass, users can listen to your KIN million songs through the Zune Marketplace service, or download your own personal collection.
Smartphones KIN also offer other features, including an excellent Web browser program for reading RSS-feeds, easy local and internet search engine with Bing and others.
In the presented video demonstrates smartphones Microsoft KIN ONE and KIN TWO in normal operation, as well as the appearance and content of their boxes.
Smartphones will appear in the U.S. in May and will be distributed via mobile operator Verizon Wireless, which has a dense covering broadband 3G EV-DO across the country. In Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK smartphone will come in the autumn and will be distributed through the company Vodafone. When the phones will appear in Russia and whether there is an operator capable of domestic spaces to reveal all possible KIN, - is still unknown.
Source: ® with the assistance KIN
