- Microsoft's Kin: Why Apple Should be a Little Worried
- My Five iPhone OS 4.0 Forecasts
- Top 5 Camera Phones
| Microsoft's Kin: Why Apple Should be a Little Worried
Microsoft this week unveiled their own branded mobile phones, the Kin 1 and Kin 2. The phones are being marketed at social networking devices, aimed at teenagers who are living the online social life on services like Twitter, MySpace and Facebook, but who aren't interested in buying a smartphone device. They're affordable, stylish, and cleverly fill the gap between a feature phone — a "basic" phone — and a far more high-powered smartphone. The plan would be for the Redmond giant to introduce teens to their mobile ecosystem with the Kin range of phones, and later graduate them to their range of business-orientated and powerful Windows Phone 7 devices (due to release later this year). A quick overview of the Kin mobiles: there are two of them, the Kin 1 and Kin 2. Both are stylishly designed to appeal to the youth demographic. They both have Facebook, MySpace and Twitter integrated into their user experience.
This eliminates the need for teens to be tied-down to an app store, as is the case with the Apple iPhone. The Kin mobiles focus largely on social networking, and even have some cool features like allowing users to "prioritize" their friends, so that they can receive status updates more frequently from their closer friends, and at the bottom of the list, for online acquaintances. Interestingly, Microsoft has chosen to use their Zune platform to serve music on these devices. This is a clever move on the Redmond giant's part, as it captures a lucrative market — teenagers and young adults, being so immersed in the online scene, are prone to purchasing the latest trends — and this extends to the music scene as well. Even better, users of the Kin have the ability to access unlimited music tracks for only $15 a month via Microsoft's Zune Pass. This is the part where Apple perhaps should step back from their endlessly raging feuds with Abobe and Google over trivial issues, and take stock of what Microsoft's unleashed into the tech world.
Currently Apple doesn't have an "unlimited" pass for their iTunes store that allows users to download as much tracks as they want for a fixed price; Nokia has one, and now Microsoft's gotten themselves one too. If Apple's clever enough, they should catch on to what Microsoft's done quickly. The Kin devices, whilst novel in their approach at selling to a niche demographic, are sure to take off quickly, earning Microsoft a good place in the mobile scene. Apple should have realised this earlier on, when the iPhone became a hit with the young adult demographic. Sure, they're marketing it more towards the gaming and business side, but small things like an unlimited pass to their music store can go a long way towards securing profits in the long run. |
| My Five iPhone OS 4.0 Forecasts
Trust Apple for always leaving the public stunned and awed. Even while there is still hubbub about the iPad, Apple has managed the media to gather together as they unleash yet another heat wave for the iPhone's next generation operating system and assumed brand new iPhone hardware. While there is a great difference between a wish and prediction, it would really be awesome if both can come true and really be included in the real iPhone 4.0 OS.
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With the advent of technology and everlasting desire to get something new , the mobile phones of today serves the purpose of camera, music player, gaming console and even a PC. Camera is one of the most admired features in any phone model. The launching days camera phone were capable of capturing images but the quality of their prints were not satisfactory. But at present you can get a mobile phone with a camera that can surely give a touch competition to any of the standalone digital camera or even proves to be better then them. Now with the latest camera phones you will not have to bother about carrying a separate digital camera as the phone's camera is well equipped with all the needed features like high pixel resolution, auto focus, flash, face detection, smile detection, photo fix and wide assortment of others. Though there is no dearth of good camera phones in the market but here we have picked up the top most 5 for you which will always be ready to capture your special moments in form of high quality images. iPhone 3GS: There is no category where you will not find iPhone making a place for itself and its 3GS model that proudly stands in the list of best camera phone with its 3MP camera having additional sleek features as well.
Samsung Instinct HD: This is a good looking sleek and stylish camera phone which is loaded with wide variety of camera as well as additional features.
It has 5MP of digital camera which captures images having high resolution. Sony Ericsson Cyber Shot C905: When it comes to imaging technology there can be no competition to Sony who has proved their credentials with their excellent quality.
Sony Ericsson Cyber Shot C905 is one such phone that will never let you miss your special moments from being captured. It has 8.1 MP camera with additional features like automatic flash, 16x digital zoom and flash. Palm Pre: Get ready with the 3.2 MP camera of this phone to capture your exciting and fun filled moments.
Samsung Memoir: This top notch camera phone has 8MP camera offering amazing picture quality with its additional features like 16x digital zoom and flash.
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