September 5, 2010
Microsoft, News
Microsoft managed to ship the vendor’s cell phone about two million handsets with Windows Phone 7 from the end of December. It remains unclear just one thing: how many smartphones have been sold to end users.
Chief Product Manager Microsoft, Greg Sullivan (Greg Sullivan), noted that the WP7 is still at an early stage of the life cycle: “When we develop this phone , people will be stuned! One of the key indicators of success, we believe Windows Phone Users love. And 93 percent of customers satisfied or very satisfied with their choice, and this is a really big number. ”
Cellular operator AT & T refused to share sales, but insisted that they are steadily growing: “We believe that this reflects a bright future in WP7 intensely competing space.”
However, according to ABI analyst Kevin Burden (Kevin Burden), the above-mentioned number of shipments of smartphones is not talking about an indisputable success. “This number shows that the Windows Phone 7 having a hard time in such a crowd – said Burden agency Bloomberg, referring to the high competition in the niche of high-tech smartphones. – They (Microsoft) can build on this number? Yes. But they should show growth in the first quarter and compare it with the growth in the second. ”
April 12, 2010
Microsoft
Officially announced by mobile devices from Microsoft, which had previously planned to be published under the names of Turtle and Pure.
It should say at once that the development of these models have made his hands and those least well-known brands such as: Sharp and Danger, so half-baked phones rightly be called the fruit of collective work, which also involved the company and Microsoft.
Manufacturers of some changed their plans and the names of socially oriented sliders changed to, and Kin One Kin Two, but their original idea remains the same. With phones, you can easily use such popular web resources such as: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and many others. Both devices, as previously assumed, working under the operating system Windows Phone 7. In the specifications Microsoft Kin One is touch-screen display with a resolution of 240×320 pixels, 4 GB of memory and built-in 5-megapixel camera with flash. Also on board the slider has a FM-receiver modules, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth of communications.
The elder brother Microsoft Kin Two compared to its predecessor is equipped with a solid display, the resolution which is 320×480 pixels, increasing the internal memory of 8 GB and 8-megapixel camera. It is worth noting the possibility of the camera to record video format HD, which also can be attributed to rather to measurable advantage.
Sales Kin One and Kin Two take mobile operators Vodafone and Verizon Wireless, and the cost of the sliders will be approximately $ 400.
