This is quite a surprise! According to Engadget, the KIN series of feature phones available on Verizon have been cancelled for release in Europe and the product team responsible for KIN has been merged back into the Windows Phone 7 team. Here’s Microsoft’s official statement: “We have made the decision to focus exclusively on Windows Phone 7 and we will not ship KIN in Europe this fall as planned. Additionally, we are integrating our KIN …
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Samsung Galaxy S vs. HD2 vs. Zune HD
As we learned at Samsung’s Galaxy S event in New York City last night, Samsung is very proud of their Super AMOLED screen. We took it for a spin and compared it with the old HTC HD2 and the Zune HD. The contrast and black blacks are comparable to the Zune’s regular AMOLED screen, but the Samsung Super AMOLED screen seems much nicer under the lights. It looks to have deeper contrast as well. Generally …
Continue readingSamsung Galaxy S Event with B.o.B
We just got in from the Samsung Galaxy S event in New York City featuring a great performance by B.o.B, and demo Samsung Galaxy S phones for us to play with. At first glance, there’s nothing special about the Galaxy S series. They look like your average Android phones with crazy colors and ugly widgets all over the place. However, Samsung has done some great optimizations to the hardware to improve the graphics processing by …
Continue readingShoot 1UP Windows Phone 7 Game
Here’s a very cool looking game that’s in the works for Windows Phone 7. Developer MommysBestGames is “currently targeting to release the game with the launch of the phone.” Not only will the graphics be improved for Windows Phone 7, there will also be a “special game play mode just for that platform, and a new playable ship.” Below are a couple videos of the game in action both on the Windows Phone 7 emulator …
Continue readingHTC Sense for Windows Phone 7
On Windows Mobile, equipment manufacturers are generally allowed to create any kind of user interface replacement that thay want. With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is taking more responsibility for the user interface design and that means less flexibility for companies like Samsung, HTC, Sony, LG, Motorola, Dell, etc. to differentiate. On the plus side, that means more consistency from the user perspective. However, it would seem that the Windows Phone 7 hardware partners are allowed …
Continue readingBGR was at the Windows Phone 7 Preview Event Too
Boy Genius Report has posted their write-up of their experience with the Windows Phone 7 demo that was shown off at the Microsoft Preview Event last week and they sounded pretty impressed with the operating system’s smooth speed, even on an underpowered 666Mhz processor (which will never see public release.) Andrew Munchbach noticed a few shortcomings too however. He was unable to see any type of unified inbox for reading all messages in one big …
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