Microsoft’s Project Pink – sorry, Kin – in a sentence: It’s the phone I’d beg my mum for if I was 15 again. And didn’t want an iPhone.
Microsoft’s going to reveal a bunch of Project Pink social networking-centric phones at an event tomorrow. We’ll be covering it, but you can watch along at home with this handy live webcast. So social of them!
Microsoft’s sent out invites for an event on April 12, plastered with the phrase “It’s time to share.” It’s double entendre about their leaked “Pink” social networking-centric phones, see!?!
Pink gadgets are generally a cheap attempt to lure in some extra girly buyers where they’d otherwise have never paid attention to your product. And the new JVC Everio GZ-MS215 is no exception. The “simple buy stylish experience” (ungh) might be claiming some moral high ground with donations to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, but it’s still just another pink gadget.
After the Windows Phone 7 launched passed without so much as a mention, Project Pink, Microsoft’s other new phone project, started to fade into memory. Today, we can confirm: Pink is coming, and Verizon’s the carrier.
OK, OK, OK, rewind a few weeks. Before WinPho 7 trundled into the daylight, the strongest evidence we had for a new product from Microsoft actually centred around something else: The long-rumoured, utterly mysterious Project Pink. So, err, what happened?
Rumours about Microsoft’s mobile plan are evolving, weirdly! Today, we’ve got duelling speculation: from Twitter, evidence of new “Danger” hardware; from Microsoft, mention of “the next generation of Windows Phone”. It’s mystery meat, this stuff, but at least it’s juicy.
