Microsoft Kin vs Windows Phone 7
Kin is the new phone by Microsoft which is also know as “pink” although their is nothing about pink in this phone. This little phone is meant for social networking to keeping people connected all the time.
In the KIN launch webcast, the difference was put this way:
“Windows Phone 7 is designed to simplify your life; KIN is designed to amplify it.”
One of the main KIN designers says,
“the magazine became the metaphor for KIN phones. It was a theme that would guide them the rest of the way. The team was struck by the ability of magazines to transcend all different types of content, yet discuss and elevate individual stories, represented by pictures, articles and layout.
“Some metaphors feel like they’re really powerful, but they don’t extend,” he says. “The magazine metaphor extended. We had to start thinking more like we were writing an article and less like we were designing a phone.”
Like a magazine, KIN phones are designed around publishing stories — in this case, the ones created by friends and family in status updates, text messages, group photos and everything else people share every day.
“We saw an opportunity to treat your friends as contributors and editors of your storyline, and make you an editor and a contributor to your friends’ storylines,” Friedman says. “Only instead of being published month to month, your story is published from moment to moment.”
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