Kin Phones and Services Mark Microsoft's Entry into Mobile Hardware

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At an event in San Francisco on 12 April 2010 Microsoft unveiled the results of a project formerly known as Pink: two phones, the Kin One and Kin Two, and a Web-based service designed specifically for social communication.

The Kin phones are made by Sharp and are the first mobile phones to use Nvidia's Tegra APX 2600 chipset, enabling HD video playback and recording at 720p resolution. Both devices feature full qwerty keyboards and run a proprietary software platform. All content on the handset is automatically synchronised to Kin Studio, a Web site that orders contacts, messages, calls, video and images in a chronological sequence.

Kin will be available exclusively from Verizon Wireless in the US from May and from Vodafone in Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK during "autumn 2010". Pricing was not disclosed.


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