Today, Robbie Bach and my good friend Derek Snyder launched Microsoft’s newest Windows Phones at an event in San Francisco. Two phones for the socially-connected crowd with multi-touch screens and slide-out keyboards. We worked with Sharp on the hardware plus Verizon and Vodafone for the wireless networks.
KIN ONE
Compact keyboard for one-handed texting + 5 megapixel camera + shoots standard video + mono speaker + 4 GB of storage for 1,000 songs + Zune
KIN TWO
Large keyboard for two-handed texting + 8 megapixel camera + shoots HD video + stereo speakers + 8 GB of storage for 2,000 songs + Zune
KIN STUDIO
Cloud storage to keep all those photos, videos, contacts and texts so you’ll never run out of space on your phone and lose a memory
If you’re a heavy texter and a regular on Facebook and Twitter then these phones are for you.
- Rob
About Rob Tiffany
A bestselling author of fiction and non-fiction books, Rob Tiffany combines his military past with his high-tech present to take readers from the depths of the ocean to the world of mobile apps. Rob served with the Navy SEALs (SOCOM) on a special ops delivery vehicle and patrolled the seas on a Trident submarine. Beneath the waves is also where he taught himself to become a Software Developer with REXX on OS/2 and Visual Basic on Windows.
After the Navy, Rob spent most of his career as a serial entreprenuer and an IT executive. A pioneer of the Smartphone revolution, he drove the development of the all-important mobile app ecosystem. As a Software Architect at the world’s largest software company, he’s in-demand as an advisor to executives and a speaker at conferences all over the world. Through books, articles and workshops, he helps to empower developers and IT professionals in areas of mobile, wireless, data replication, the cloud, and highly-scalable infrastructures.
Rob lives in the Pacific Northwest and you can learn more about him by subscribing to his blog and following him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/robtiffany.
