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  • Microsoft’s Project Pink Phones Now Official, Known As “Kin 1″ And “Kin 2″

    Microsoft’s Project Pink Phones Now Official, Known As “Kin 1″ And “Kin 2″

    Posted on April 12, 2010 | No Comments
    We're live in San Francisco, where Microsoft has at long last unveiled the project previously known around the Internets as "Pink", which they've now given the name "Kin". So what is Kin? Much like the rumor mill had projected, it's two different social-network oriented phones: Kin 1, and Kin 2 (How very Seuss of them). Kin 1 is the phone previously known as "Turtle", a little palm (as in the body part, not the company) sized portrait QWERTY slider with a 5 megapixel camera. Kin 2 was previously known amongst the whisperers as "Pure", and is a landscape QWERTY slider with an 8 megapixel camera. Both phones are launching on Verizon.

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  • Project Pink Microsoft phones coming to Verizon

    Project Pink Microsoft phones coming to Verizon

    Posted on March 4, 2010 | No Comments
    >Remember Project Pink? Whatever Microsoft's secret hardware initiative was? Well, it's real and it's coming to Verizon. You'll see the Turtle, shown here, first, and it will be sort of a Sidekick that won't run Windows Phone. Verizon will launch this like they did the Droid, aiming the might of their armies at flogging this to the feature phone user.

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