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As its final, parting wave to the KIN lineup of pseudo-smartphones, Microsoft has pushed out updates to the small fleet of KIN One and KIN Two handsets that actually managed to make their way out of Verizon stores. Before you get excited – not that it’s actually possible to get excited for Verizon’s ill-fated handsets…
There’s one way to ensure your mobile platform will get some market share: give away phones for free. That’s exactly what Microsoft will do with its upcoming Windows Phone 7 smartphones, as the more than 90,000 employees will be getting a free handset, according to Microsoft reporter extraordinaire Mary Jo Foley. “90K down … just…
Windows Phone 7 is coming very soon, especially since Microsoft recently announced the fact that it hit a major internal milestone – its technical preview completion. Now the software companies have confirmed what we mostly already knew, its hardware partners. LG, Samsung, Dell, Asus and HTC will be building out any number of the three…
The HTC HD2 is already a beast of a smartphone with a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor but an app will let you extract even more power out of the Windows Mobile handset. The Leo Auto CPU app lets you overclock the HD2 and bring it to higher levels. The latest version also includes auto-apply at…
We know that the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 operating system will be available on hardware in the next few months but we’re already seen an early look at the upcoming smartphone platform. Our version is still in the mail (right Microsoft?) but our pals over at Engadget, BGR and MobileCrunch have been tooling around with…
We had heard rumors yesterday that Verizon Wireless would be throwing the Microsoft Kin phones in the grave today and the nation’s largest wireless operator has confirmed this. “Verizon Wireless will no longer sell the Kin One and Kin Two in our company owned stores. Existing customers should not be impacted. There are no current…
Windows Phone 7 news is continuing to stir as some sites have been able to get their hands on test units that are running software nearing final build. Today, Microsoft announced on its Windows Team Blog that it has hit another milestone in Windows Phone 7 development – something it is calling “technical preview.” What…
We all knew the Microsoft Kin phones weren’t long for this world after the software giant said it would be focusing on the upcoming Windows Phone 7 but we’re hearing word that Verizon Wireless may be cutting off sales entirely tomorrow. The folks over at WMExperts have been told that all the remaining devices and…
Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone 7 will be a “disaster” that’s not worth your time, InfoWorld said after spending some time with it in a hands-on demo. Some of us at IntoMobile (mostly me, though) are cautiously optimistic about Windows Phone 7 and the lust-worthy hardware it’s going to be on. Writer Galen Gruman pulls no…
It seems Samsung is getting serious to keep its devices, even those that are kinda old-ish these days, up to date. After releasing the Windows Mobile 6.5 update for the Epix (i907) which is sold through AT&T, another WinMo smartphone made by the Korean company is getting the same treatment. It’s MetroPCS’ Samsung Code that…