12 Apr, 2010
Camera Phone Kin Studio Kin1 Kin2 Microsoft Qwerty
Every company seems to get a pie of cell phone market and MS known for its mobile OS launched two new phone models, called Kin 1 and Kin 2, the Kin brand is designed for teens and Social is part of the DNA of this phone.
Kin 1 and Kin 2 have similar features, and run the same Kin version of WinPhone7, with touchscreens, slideout QWERTY keyboards, etc. Differences include size – the Kin 1 being the smaller, squarish one, with a 5.0 megapixel camera/SD video, mono speaker, and 4 GB of memory built in, compared to the Kin 2’s larger screen and keyboard, stereo speakers, 8.0 megapixel camera/HD video and 8 GB of memory.
In terms of softwares , first the basics – has a browser, Bing search, and Zune software built in – so it should be pretty nice for music. But it’s NOT a smartphone – Microsoft built the Kin for Social. The camera software with social features built in – allowing you to upload straight from your phone to your social sites.
But the coolest feature is Kin Studio which allow user to access, sort, and most importantly, backup everything on your phone – from Contacts, to texts, to pictures and videos.
MS has launched Kin website also.
-Hitesh, vcBytes.com
9 Jul, 2009
Chrome OS Google Microsoft Open Source
Google is challenging Microsoft in its strongest product portfolio- OS. Google has announced its engineers have started working on project called Chrome OS. Microsoft literally having a monopoly in the OS segment and which Google wants to reduce, Google intends to be one stop solution for accessing the internet.
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. In later part of 2009 it will be available as open-source code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.
Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. Google is designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. Like Chrome browser, Google is going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.
Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and Google is working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.
Do you thing Google will be successful in invading at MS OS marketshare? Say it loud
Hitesh, vcBytes.com
Every company seems to get a pie of cell phone market and MS known for its mobile OS launched two new phone models, called Kin 1 and Kin 2, the Kin brand is designed for teens and Social is part of the DNA of this phone.
