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After HP acquired and killed the WebOS Smartphone platform, another one bites the dust. As we reported in march, the Danger group Microsoft acquired — a Java-based smartphone platform that pioneered messaging-oriented phones targeted at younger people — has been working for two years on “Pink,” a top secret project operating independently from Windows Mobile, released as the “KIN” platform.
KIN was pulled off the market in just 48 days after only selling a reported 500 units.
In an effort to compete with itself, Microsoft is preparing a new smartphone based on the Danger Sidekick. Microsoft recently relaunched the future of Windows Mobile under the name “Windows 7 Phone Series” which it hopes to ship as a product by the end of the year. Microsoft has taken the route of deemphasizing mobile apps to instead focus on an experience that melts together the most popular web-centric features like Facebook and Twitter, while also directing attention toward Microsoft’s own Bing search and Zune media player properties.
Just four months after Windows Mobile 6.5 hit the market, Microsoft has officially introduced Windows Phone 7 Series, the new multitouch-capable mobile operating system designed to defeat Apple’s iPhone.
We were all looking at the iPad and suddenly, Microsoft comes with this new, impressive, and I would dare to say “original” take on the mobile phones with a whole new OS. Yes, you read it well, I, the guy coming from Apple’s EvangeList, am saying Microsoft has done something “new” and “original”… How’s that? Read on to find out.
Microsoft’s search engine Bing has now its own iPhone App. The native app is free. It offers search of images, movies, maps, businesses, news and directions. Users can check their flight status, view the image of the day and use voice search.
“Make decisions and get where you need to go with Bing,” the official description reads. “See the Bing daily image and related trivia on the home screen. Search maps or
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