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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 readingHow to Speed Up HTC’s Twitter Tab
HTC’s Sense on the new T-Mobile HD2 has a few bugs that may make the device appear to freeze, or slow down considerably. Another one is the HTC Peep application for Twitter. The Twitter app works great for a while, but it doesn’t ever clear out old tweets from the database. So depending on how many people you’re following and how often they tweet, sooner or later, that twitter timeline is going to get very …
Continue readingMicrosoft Kin: Danger is My Middle Name
The new phones from Microsoft’s Project Pink have just been announced and they’re called the Kin One and Kin Two. If you missed the live stream announcement that just ended, check out the Kin website for more information, or the cache of Engadget’s live blog. The phones were demo’d by pocketnow.com alum, Derek Snyder, and they are directly targeted at the social crowd of users who love to share the lives. Robbie Bach calls this …
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 readingWin a Windows Phone 7!
Are you a student who wants to win a Windows Phone 7 and a few grand in cash? It won’t be easy! Imagine Cup is running a Windows Phone 7 Rockstar competition where developer teams (up to 4 people) can win up to $8000, a trip to Warsaw Poland for the Imagine Cup Finals, and a Windows Phone 7 for each team member if you can write one awesome program that will run on Windows …
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