You may or may not have heard of the Microsoft KIN phones. It’s Microsoft’s forray into the social media friendly smartphone market aim directly at the digital natives who can’t live a day in their lives without being connected to some form of social network.
The people at iFixit has just finished tearing down one and shared with us the inner workings of the KIN.
You can read all about it directly from iFixit here but we’ll just save you some time and list down the juicy findings from the teardown.
- The QWERTY slider KIN Two is almost 7mm thicker than an iPhone 3GS and the Motorola Droid/Milestone.
- It packs an 8MP camera with LED flash utilising a Sony CMS sensor that’s one of the smallest in its class. We’ve always been impressed by the imaging capabilities of SonyEricsson phones, so it’s safe to expect pretty good pictures and videos coming from the KIN Two at the very least. But it’s not going to be as good as the HD awesomess of the Nokia N8. Nevertheless, still pretty good.
- Finally there’s an NVIDIA Tegra APX2600 graphics processor making sure the UI runs slick.
That’s pretty much it from the iFixit teardown. Still no word on the international debut of the KIN phones though.
Unbelievable: 2 weeks to get Streamyx installed!
Local funnyman Patrick Teoh shared on his blog his wife’s experience with TM and Streamyx when she went to apply for a fixed phone line along with Streamyx broadband.
Patrick was told by Malaysia’s number one telecommunications company that it would take a whole week to have his fixed line installed and a ridiculous two weeks to get Streamyx up and running.
In the man’s own words “I mean this is 2010. One week to get a phone line and 2 weeks to get Streamyx? What does TM have to do? Dig trenches and lay cables? Do some re-wiring so my wife’s shop can get a line in? What?”
So TM, we’re all wondering, why does it take so long for you to install fixed line and Streamyx?
In this day and age of social media, TM is primed to earm some very valuable brownie points if they respond to Mr. Teoh and have everything installed within the day. But going through the comments thread in Patrick Teoh’s post and TM’s official Twitter account, it appears that Mr. and Mrs. Teoh’s venting has gone unoticed.
Wonder if TM will actually sort this out.
With big name manufacturers like HTC, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and now LG jumping onto the Android bandwagon, the future of Google’s smartphone OS is looking very rosy indeed.
And the influx of Android devices coming into the market looks like it’s not going to let up anytime soon. Just announced to be available soon are two new Android handsets, one, a high-end 1Ghz Snapdragon packing LG slider and the other a somewhat lower mid-range device coming from what could be the world’s most prolific Android device manufacturer – HTC.
Here’s a run down on these two new Android devices.
A few sharp-eyed iPhone users have noticed that one of the best Twitter apps for the iPhone is no longer available for download.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Tweetie 2 app is now missing from the App store.
What could this mean?
Developers often remove their apps voluntarily to ensure the newest version is released when they choose. What this likely means is that Apple has already approved the new Twitter for iPhone, and now Twitter just has to put it in the store.
In a blog post about a month back Twitter announced that it had acquired Tweetie and will rename it Twitter for iPhone, thus announcing the makings of an official Twitter for the iPhone. On top of that Twitter has said that it will be making the app free (Tweetie is a US$2.99/RM10.00 app at the moment) and will be releasing it “in the coming weeks”.
Twitter posted the announcement on April 9…it’s now over a month, so is a launch near?
Well, it sure does look like it. In fact the net’s buzzing with predictions that Twitter for iPhone will be launched sometime today or tomorrow.
We’ve been using the official Twitter for Android app and we’re liking it very much. Judging by that, Twitter can only improve on the awesomeness of Tweetie. Even before it’s launched, Twitter for iPhone is already better priced (assuming that the official app will indeed be free).
In any case, we’ll keep you posted once it is available. We can’t wait to try it out!
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