Microsoft has announced that they are going to terminate expansion in Kin Line and now they will work only on Development of Windows Phone 7 OS. All the resources of Microsoft Corporation will be invested only on Operating system improvement and perfection.The official statement from Microsoft is as follows:”Microsoft has made the decision to focus on the Windows Phone 7 launch and will not ship KIN in Europe this fall as planned. (more…)

Microsoft’s Project Pink has finally borne fruit with the two leaked phones Microsoft Pure and Turtle set to arrive via Verizon and Vodafone. Of course they are now known as the Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two which is, lets be honest, better than owning a Turtle. In any case, this new breed of social phones are made by Sharp for Microsoft and have a whole host of new features that are sure to delight customers and indeed, even us. More below including link to the site as well as specs and pics for the Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two. (more…)

Windows pretty much revolutionized how the world works, not only did it introduce a GUI that was so simple that anyone could work it, it also introduced the copy-paste technique possibly used by millions of people throughout the world. On the latest mobile version of Windows (that is Microsoft Windows Phone 7 series), it seems that the copy paste function will not be available, this was revealed by Microsoft at its MX10 conference where Windows Phone Marketplace and free Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools were also unveiled. (more…)

After Google threatened to pull out of China, Motorola started to search (yes, weak but glorious pun) out a new partner to provide search and maps on their Android devices sold in China. The result, though slightly unexpected, can perhaps be labeled the logical step as Microsoft’s Bing search is the second largest search engine after Google and is also set to power Yahoo search in the future. The Motorola i1 is a so far unannounced cellphone that works on the iDEN network, more on this below. (more…)

This story initially reported by Gizmodo has since been all but confirmed and most folks are now waiting for an official confirmation from Microsoft and Verizon. Few specifications are available for the Microsoft Pure and Microsoft Turtle, both of which are QWERTY style phones based on Microsoft Pink although the Microsoft Pure smart phone looks like a regular side-slide QWERTY smart phone and the Microsoft Turtle is a vertical slider of sorts and you can take a look at the renderings below. (more…)

So amongst the horde of news generated everyday regarding cellphones and related topics, here are our picks for today. Firstly AT&T has decided to cut wastage and become more eco-friendly. Next Opera has made Opera Mini compatible with Microsoft Windows Mobile 5 and 6 without the need for Java. Last but not least T-Mobile is planning on launching what they call “very fast mobile web” on March 14th. (more…)

This one is unconfirmed at the moment but it seems that the Windows Phone 7 series LG pre-production prototype (that we checked out in an earlier post about the LG Windows Phone 7 series smart phone) might have a name. The name according to to UK website that seems to have somehow inveigled the name out of LG and it seems to be the LG Panther. LG Panther to us sounds like a name that could quite possibly be the real one for the Windows Phone 7 series LG smart phone for which as of yet relatively little is known. (more…)

By all accounts, one would find that users feel that Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.x.x is positively ancient, drab and even when made to appear to look good (for example HTC phones with SenseUI) has still very limited functionality and is not at all the thing. Microsoft it seems is ready to please the masses and recently introduced their new mobile OS, the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 series at the MWC (Mobile World Congress) held at Barcelona, Spain.

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