Buried deep within Kin’s software is a provisioning file directory, which has uncovered a list of carriers who will potentially support Microsoft’s One and Two handsets. These are no guarantees that the carriers will actually be picking up the phones, only that they’re technically capable of running on these networks. It’s entirely possible these were built solely for demos. In any case, without further ado…
- AT&T (US)
- T-Mobile (US)
- Verizon (US)
- Fido (Canada)
- China Mobile
- China Unicom
- O2 (Germany)
- T-Mobile (Germany)
- Vodafone (Germany)
- Vodafone (Spain)
- Vodafone (France)
- Vodafone (Portugal)
- Vodafone (Italy)
- DoCoMo (Japan)
- Softbank (Japan)
- Telia (Sweden)
- Three (Sweden)
- Orange (UK)
- O2 (UK)
- Vodafone (UK)
That’s quite the list, and even if the Kin only finds its way onto half of these networks, the Kin One and Two stand to do reasonably well despite a lukewarm reception. If you haven’t a chance to check them out, the Kin One is the smaller slider, packing a 5 megapixel camera, 4 GB of internal memory, and a QVGA display. The Kin Two is slightly beefier, including an 8 megapixel camera, HVGA touchscreen, and 8 GB of storage. Both are built for heavy social network users, and come loaded with full Zune functions. Expect them sometime on Verizon (and hopefully a few other carriers) sometime in May.
[RT @Coinflipper via MobileCrunch]