Can’t live without family and friends? Or just love being a social butterfly? For those who get sweet on staying connected all the time, Microsoft Corporation has just doffed the wraps of KIN, a new Windows Phone designed specifically for users who are actively navigating their social lives.
In collaboration with Verizon Wireless, Vodafone and Sharp, KIN emerges as a great choice for social bugs. Quite innovatively, the new mobile device blends the phone, online services and the PC with simply incredible new experiences entitled the Loop, Spot and Studio.
“Working closely with our partners, we saw an opportunity to design a mobile experience just for this social generation – a phone that makes it easy to share your life moment to moment,†explained Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft. “We built KIN for people who live to be connected, share, express and relate to their friends and family. This social generation wants and needs more from their phone. KIN is the one place to get the stuff you care about to the people you care about most.â€
The new kind of social phone, KIN, sports a fun, simple interface, which is sketched out to topple a completely different user experience. Just to notify, there are two models namely the KIN One and KIN Two. Both the gizmos embrace a touchscreen and slide-out keyboard.
Specifying individually, the One handset is designed to be small and compact, making it a perfect fit for a pocket. It hugs a 5 megapixel camera for those in love with flashing their smiles. On the other hand, the Two phone features a larger screen and keyboard, a high-resolution 8 megapixel camera, and the ability to record high-definition video.
To make users stay connected with a sense of ease, the KIN automatically brings together feeds from Microsoft and third-party services such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter all in one place. The handset also sports a unique feature, the KIN Spot, which enables users to share what’s going on in their world, and share their videos, photos, status updates and web pages.
The new Microsoft KIN Windows Phone will be exclusively available from Verizon Wireless in the U.S. beginning in May and from Vodafone this autumn in Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. The pricing details are yet to be announced.
