The best phone of the best phones » microsoft http://the-best-phone.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:29:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two Available for Pre-Order May 6 and Launching May 13th http://the-best-phone.com/2010/05/02/microsoft_kin_one_and_kin_two_available_for_pre_order_may_6_and_launching_may_13th.html http://the-best-phone.com/2010/05/02/microsoft_kin_one_and_kin_two_available_for_pre_order_may_6_and_launching_may_13th.html#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 22:55:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=17275 As we looking back to the beginning of Apr, we see Microsoft launch their socially-connected handsets: the Kin One and Kin Two. Two very different, distinct devices in of themselves, they ar either woefully ignored or highly anticipated. If you fall into the class of the latter, then we’ve got some goodness newsworthiness for you. We’ve got an effigy of an internal Verizon reputation that shows the dates for pre-order, and functionary launching onto the Verizon meshwork.

Microsoft told us at the launching of the 2 devices that they would be launching in May, along with Vodafone across the pool later in the year, but we didn’t imagine it would be this soon. According to the images, the Kin One and Kin Two ar both departure up for pre-order on May 6th, on the Web, and then becoming available in all channels on May 13th. That agency that it’ll be available online, in Verizon stores, and third-party retailers on that date.

So, you’re only four years away from being able to drop your hard earned money on the next handsets from Redmond. While the Kine One (formerly known as the Turtle) whitethorn be single of the more interesting look handsets we’ve seen in awhile, we tin’t aid but think that the Kin Two is going to be somewhat of a hit. With that 3.4-inch capacitive touchscreen, the 8MP camera on the backrest, and 8GB of flashbulb store, it’s definitely not the worst earphone in Verizon’s line of work-up. Let us know in the comments if you architectural plan on pre-order, or picking one of these sociable networking devices at all.

[Thanks, Dave!]

]]> http://the-best-phone.com/2010/05/02/microsoft_kin_one_and_kin_two_available_for_pre_order_may_6_and_launching_may_13th.html/feed 0 Ultrabrief: Rumour: Apple to liberation 5 to 7 inch iPad in Q1 2011 for under $400 http://the-best-phone.com/2010/04/09/ultrabrief_rumour_apple_to_liberation_5_to_7_inch_ipad_in_q1_2011_for_under_400.html http://the-best-phone.com/2010/04/09/ultrabrief_rumour_apple_to_liberation_5_to_7_inch_ipad_in_q1_2011_for_under_400.html#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:20:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=15178   Share

Digitimes Analyst Mingchi Kuo, based on talks with constituent suppliers, is predicting that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is going to launching an iPad in Q1 2011 that’s between 5 and 7 inches large and will retail for less than $400. It’s meant for users who father’t really wish to input a lot of text. Judging from the many reviews I’ve read on the net, plus a few discussions with my American English IntoMobile colleagues, the already 9.7 in iPad is hard enough to character on, plus it’s freaking heavy.

As always when it comes to Digitimes, this rumor should be taken with a grain of salt.

]]> http://the-best-phone.com/2010/04/09/ultrabrief_rumour_apple_to_liberation_5_to_7_inch_ipad_in_q1_2011_for_under_400.html/feed 0 HTC reaffirms ‘committal’ to Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform http://the-best-phone.com/2010/02/21/htc_reaffirms_8216_committal_8217_to_microsoft_8217_s_windows_phone_platform.html http://the-best-phone.com/2010/02/21/htc_reaffirms_8216_committal_8217_to_microsoft_8217_s_windows_phone_platform.html#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:47:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=11557   Buzz it Share

HTC has seemingly fallen in love with Google (NSDQ: GOOG)’s Android mobile operating organization – they’ve been launch Android phones left field and right, as of late – but the troupe that got its beginning construction smartphones powered by Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s Windows Mobile chopine hasn’t forgotten its roots. At Mobile River World United States Congress, HTC chief executive officer Simon Peter Chou reiterated his company’s committal to all things Windows Phone. That’s goodness newsworthiness for Windows Phone fans, especially considering the impressive new Windows Phone 7 Series drug user interface that Microsoft demonstrated at Mobile World Congress.

“Our committal to Microsoft has never changed,” said HTC Chief Peter Chou, adding that HTC is “very committed to Android as wellspring. We are very long-terminus committed to those 2.” It’s open that HTC is retention their options open (and why shouldn’t they – Android is gaining steam and Windows Phone has proven that Microsoft still has a future tense in the smartphone space).

Last week, HTC unveiled triplet new phones in Barcelona, two of which were Android phones. The unity Windows Mobile gimmick that was announced is a miniaturized variant of HTC’s HTC HD2, aptly called the HTC HD Mini. The chomp-sized Windows Phone volition run on Windows Mobile River OS 6.5.3, which basically represents the shoemaker’s last stop on the upgrade roadmap for “Windows Mobile.” The good newsworthiness for Windows Mobile fans is that, departure forward, HTC will apparently make room for Windows Phone 7 Series handsets in their increasingly Android-heavy smartphone lineup. HTC’s commitment to Windows Phone should also be goodness newsworthiness to Microsoft, as it will guarantee Microsoft a sizable partner willing to pay licensing fees to use the Windows Phone platform.

We had a chance to swordplay around with a prevue of Windows Phone 7 Series, and we have to give Microsoft due course credit for creating a truly innovative UI that provides an intuitive drug user experience. Check out the video here and let us know what you think!

[Via: Reuters]

]]> http://the-best-phone.com/2010/02/21/htc_reaffirms_8216_committal_8217_to_microsoft_8217_s_windows_phone_platform.html/feed 0 Namco to bring best-selling iPhone game Flight Control to other platforms http://the-best-phone.com/2010/02/20/namco_to_bring_best_selling_iphone_game_flight_control_to_other_platforms.html http://the-best-phone.com/2010/02/20/namco_to_bring_best_selling_iphone_game_flight_control_to_other_platforms.html#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:17:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=11486   Buzz it Share

Namco Networks is teaming up with Firemint to interface the highly popular iPhone claim Flight Control to other mobile chopine. The game has launched yesterday on Nintendo DSiWare, and is exercise set to strike mobile (Java, Windows Mobile, Brew and Android) in July 2010.

If you haven’t heard of Flight Control, it agency you not only father’t rich person an iPhone or iPod Touch, but really hate meter reading any iStuff. After Pocket God (which got its comedian volume), Flight Control is the most popular game in the AppStore, having sold over two meg copies. Hence, we ar no surprised to see Namco jumping in and trying to get its contribution of the action.

And that’s about all we got from Namco’s pressure liberation. Plus we have Firemint’s chief executive officer Henry M. Robert Murray River’s words who’s obviously excited about the deal. He said: “…It will be a great deed to see our game reaching an even broader demographic with the mobile edition.”

Flight Control ($0.99) [iTunes link]

]]> http://the-best-phone.com/2010/02/20/namco_to_bring_best_selling_iphone_game_flight_control_to_other_platforms.html/feed 0 Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Series http://the-best-phone.com/2010/02/19/microsoft_unveils_windows_phone_7_series.html http://the-best-phone.com/2010/02/19/microsoft_unveils_windows_phone_7_series.html#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:53:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=11224 At Mobile World Congress 2010, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the next propagation of Windows® Phones, Windows Phone 7 Series. With this new chopines, Microsoft offers a fresh approach to phone software system, distinguished by smart design and truly integrated experiences that bring to the aerofoil the depicted object people care about from the Web and applications. For the first base time ever, Microsoft will bring together Xbox LIVE games and the Zune music and video recording experience on a mobile phone, exclusively on Windows Phone 7 Series. Partners have already started building phones; customers volition be able to leverage the first phones in stores by vacation 2010.

“Today, I’m proud to introduce Windows Phone 7 Series, the next generation of Windows Phones,” said Steve Ballmer, chief executive military officer at Microsoft. “In a crowded market filled with phones that look the same and do the same things, I challenged the squad to deliver a different kind of mobile experience. Windows Phone 7 Series marks a turn point toward phones that truly reflect the hurrying of people’s lives and their need to connect to other people and all kinds of seamless experiences.”

Designed for Life in Motion

With Windows Phone 7 Series, Microsoft takes a fundamentally different coming to phone software. Smart design begins with a new, holistic design organisation that informs every aspect of the earpiece, from its visually appealing layout and motion to its function and computer hardware desegregation. On the Start blind, dynamically updated “live tiles” appearance users real-metre content directly, break the mold of atmospheric static icons that service as an intermediate measure on the agency to an diligence. Create a tile of a friend, and the substance abuser gains a readable, up-to-engagement sight of a friend’s latest pictures and posts, just by glancing at Start.

Every Windows Phone 7 Series earpiece volition come with a dedicated hardware push for Bing, providing I-mouse click approach to hunting from anywhere on the earpiece, piece a special implementation of Bing search provides intent-specific results, delivering the most relevant Web or local results, depending on the eccentric of query.

Windows Phone 7 Series creates an unrivaled set of integrated experiences on a earpiece through Windows Phone hubs. Hubs bring together related content from the Web, applications and services into a single sight to simplify commons tasks. Windows Phone 7 Series includes VI hubs built on specific themes reflecting activities that matter most to people:

•People. This hub delivers an engaging social experience by delivery together relevant depicted object based on the someone, including his or her live feeds from social networks and photos. It also provides a exchange place from which to berth updates to Facebook and Windows Live in one measure.

•Pictures. This hub makes it easy to share pictures and video recording to a social network in one step. Windows Phone 7 Series also brings together a user’s photos by integrating with the Web and PC, making the earpiece the ideal place to view a person’s stallion painting and video collection.

•Games. This hub delivers the first and only functionary Xbox LIVE experience on a earpiece, including Xbox LIVE games, Spotlight provender and the ability to see a gamer’s incarnation, Achievements and gamer visibility. With more than 23 one thousand thousand active members around the world, Xbox LIVE unlocks a world of friends, games and entertainment on Xbox 360, and now also on Windows Phone 7 Series.

•Music + Video. This hub creates an incredible media experience that brings the topper of Zune, including content from a user’s PC, online music services and even a built-in FM radio into I simple post that is all about medicine and video. Users can turn their media experience into a social one with Zune Social on a PC and part their media recommendations with like-minded medicine lovers. The playback experience is rich and easy to navigate, and immerses the hearer in the depicted object.

•Marketplace. This hub allows the substance abuser to easily discover and load the earpiece with certified applications and games.

•Office. This hub brings the familiar experience of the world’s leadership productiveness software system to the Windows Phone. With access to Office, OneNote and SharePoint Workspace all in I post, users can easily read, edit and part documents. With the additional power of Outlook Mobile River, users stay productive and up to date piece on the go.

Availability

Partners from around the earthly concern wealthy person committed to include Windows Phone 7 Series in their portfolio plans. They include mobile operators AT&T, Deutsche Telekom AG, Orange River, SFR, Sprint, Telecom Italy, Telefуnica, Telstra, T-Mobile River USA, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone, and manufacturers Dell, Garmin-Asus, HTC Corp., HP, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Qualcomm Inc. The first base phones volition be available by vacation 2010. Customers who would like to receive additional entropy about Windows Phone 7 Series and be notified when it is available tin can register at http://www.windowsphone7series.com.

]]> http://the-best-phone.com/2010/02/19/microsoft_unveils_windows_phone_7_series.html/feed 0 Windows Mobile River 7 North Korean won’t come with Flash support, at least not initially http://the-best-phone.com/2010/02/18/windows_mobile_river_7_north_korean_won_8217_t_come_with_flash_support_at_least_not_initially.html http://the-best-phone.com/2010/02/18/windows_mobile_river_7_north_korean_won_8217_t_come_with_flash_support_at_least_not_initially.html#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:44:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=11195   Buzz it Share

Abandoning Flash is a smash these days. Apple is known for its anti-Flash moves, Firefox for Maemo disables Flash by default option, and now we rich person Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) saying that Windows Mobile River 7 won’t documentation Adobe’s criterion as well. Actually, they said that volition be spot at launching but will be changed in due course of action. Here’s what they said:

“Microsoft and Adobe ar workings closely together. While the newest version of Windows Phone won’t support Flash at initial handiness, both companies are working to include a browser plug-in for the full Flash player in future versions of Windows Phone. More details will be shared at Microsoft MIX next month.”

Are Flash’s twenty-four hours numbered? HTML5 is around the street corner and I do believe more and more companies will rely on W3C’s criterion instead of Adobe’s proprietary matter…

[Via: PhoneScoop]

]]> http://the-best-phone.com/2010/02/18/windows_mobile_river_7_north_korean_won_8217_t_come_with_flash_support_at_least_not_initially.html/feed 0 A look at Windows Mobile River 6.5.3 from CES 2010 http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/10/a_look_at_windows_mobile_river_6_5_3_from_ces_2010.html http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/10/a_look_at_windows_mobile_river_6_5_3_from_ces_2010.html#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:11:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=9033 At this breaker point, microsoft.html’ title=’Consumers winnings in the EU lawsuit against Microsoft’>Windows Mobile 6.5 is still a far ways off from being the intuitive mobile operating organisation it needs to be to take on the finger-friendly offerings from iPhone, Android and webOS. Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s latest update to the Windows Mobile River 6.5 platform is incremental at best, but shows that the company realizes that their smartphone OS doesn’t wealthy person the aesthetic charm to compete with other platforms. The company is at CES 2010 to show off, among other things, their Windows Mobile River 6.5.3 OS update. As you tin can see from the video recording below, the new WM6.5.3 UI is slightly updated to reflect the design philosophical system we first base saw in the new Internet Explorer Mobile. The new homescreen moves the “Start” button to the bottom of the screen, in much the same agency that IE Mobile displays its navigation buttons.

]]> http://the-best-phone.com/2010/01/10/a_look_at_windows_mobile_river_6_5_3_from_ces_2010.html/feed 0 Thor gets its iPhone game http://the-best-phone.com/2009/12/30/thor_gets_its_iphone_game.html http://the-best-phone.com/2009/12/30/thor_gets_its_iphone_game.html#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:34:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=8366

The Thor biz is in the AppStore and it doesn’t have to do anything with the upcoming megahit movie, exercise set to hit the theaters (if everything goes as planned) in 2011. Rather, it’s a animated cartoon-ish biz, based on a CGI animated funniness lineament from Icelandic studio apartment CAOZ.

The biz is a side-scrolling platformer, which sees you in-directly controlling Thor as he runs through 13 levels across Little Joe elemental worlds (ice, air travel, earth and firing). It’s your “line of work” to collect all the lightning bolts and energy orbs that you spot on your way. You do that by swiping a finger on what’s effectively a power-up, only to manipulation it later to bash things. In addition, you’ll have to jumping across obstacles, and you do that with a I tap.

Of course of action, there ar big bosses to rhythm at the end of levels, combo bonuses and additional might-ups which, for instance, could slow down the time to shuffle your efforts easier…

If all this sounds entertaining to you, record hop over to this varlet (iTunes) and grab the Thor game for 99 cents.

[Via: PocketGamer.co.uk]

]]> http://the-best-phone.com/2009/12/30/thor_gets_its_iphone_game.html/feed 0 Steve Jobs may return to Apple for new iPhone launching http://the-best-phone.com/2009/10/11/steve_jobs_may_return_to_apple_for_new_iphone_launching.html http://the-best-phone.com/2009/10/11/steve_jobs_may_return_to_apple_for_new_iphone_launching.html#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:16:00 +0000 admin http://the-best-phone.com/?p=2312 Steve Jobs retention an iPhone

Tim James Cook has been manning the helm at Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s Cupertino, CA headquarters since Steve Jobs went on hiatus due to his declining personal health. Cook has been doing a bang-up job in keeping Apple at the top of its biz, but new reports tip at Steve Jobs’s return to Apple as the iPhone-manufacturer prepares to belly laugh the world again with yet another iPhone-dominated WWDC.В  In fact, Mr. Jobs whitethorn be returning to the WWDC tonic leg in ordering to launch the new iPhone, or perhaps another Apple device.

The Wall Street Journal is coverage that the Apple CEO’s doctor has said that “Mr. Jobs’s recovery “is coming along” and he is on schedule to reappearance to work later this calendar month.” Jobs is not expected back at Apple until the remainder of the month, but insiders familiar with the position say that Apple is trying to coordinate Steve’s reappearance to Apple with an upcoming product launch.

The only product launch we tin think of advent out of Apple this calendar month would be the new iPhone, an iPhone Nano, possibly two new iPhones, or even an Apple Tablet of some sort.

Stay tuned for IntoMobile’s live reporting of Apple’s WWDC 2009!

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