If you’re curious about Rosa as she takes her journey with the new Kin phones, here’s something fun. She also raps! Take a look at her Salt n Peppa’ cover of “Let’s talk about Sex” on College Humor (if you dare). Microsoft has already had some issues with old people complaining about Kin’s “Sexting” features, so it’s good to see that the Kin social networking spokeswoman promotes responsible and safe picture messaging. Originally published on …
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Kin’s Fan Count Growing Very Quickly
The new Kin phones and service were just announced a few days ago, but already the Kin Facebook page has over 30,000 fans. Earlier this morning it was around 24,000 fans. Of course, most of us smartphone power users don’t see much appeal in the Kin, but we said that about the original Danger Sidekick devices as well. Could these new phones actually be a hit despite the naysayers? Originally published on Pocketnow on April …
Continue readingCharlie Kindel Promises Fixes to Windows Phone 7
Remember when we asked how exactly do you multi-task?Tweakers.net managed to interview Charlie Kindel about Windows Phone 7 recently, and he gives us some answers about certain real-life user multi-tasking scenarios that we care about. “For example if you have an application in the background a GPS position to other applications, can pass, it is required that the application can run in the background. For such scenarios, we build multi-tasking again.” So it looks like, …
Continue readingProject Pink’s Past Problems
The results of Project Pink and Microsoft’s aquisition of Danger, Inc. are expected to be revealed tomorrow. Neowin has a write-up of some of Project Pink’s rumored issues and difficulties that the platform has gone through. We’ll see soon enough wether the political and development issues of the Project Pink initiative have been resolved or if these new “Pink” phones are destined to fail as Neowin seems to think. Originally published on Pocketnow on April …
Continue readingWindows Mobile is Still in 3rd Place
If you read most technology blog reviewers and their commenters, you might think Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system was the worst thing ever. According to ComScore’s, Windows Mobile is still in the top 3 smartphone operating systems in the European Union. It’s even second place in countries like Spain, Italy, and Germany. Android’s market share is still in last place with about 2%. Well what about the US, you say? Windows Mobile is still in …
Continue readingT-Mobile’s HTC HD2 is Sold Out Again!
While the first shipment of the HTC HD2 sold out on release day in 4 hours, the subsequent shipments lasted a little longer. Unfortunately, they’re sold out again today. T-Mobile has more information on their forums here in case you’re still looking for an HD2, and you should probably consider it because they’re pretty awesome, especially considering all you get for the $200 price. Meanwhile, you can see our review of the European HD2 or …
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