Kin one and kin two

Well in the more resent days two new phones have been released on Verizon’s network the Kin one and the Kin two. Both phones are running windows phone O.S. for Kin. I will start off with the Kin one. This phone being smaller than a sticky note pad is very small for a Smartphone . The screen on it is a 2.6” high res TFT, QVGA (320x240) capacitive touch screen. Personally for me this would be way to small for me to even get use to, for a touch screen device. It does however have a slide out qwerty keyboard which does come in handy on a small device like the Kin one. On the very top it has a 3.5mm headphone jack. This phone also has a camera a 5mp camera! This comes to a surprise to me because a lot of even bigger smart phones like the Motorola Droid and the Droid Devour only have a 5 or 3 mp camera. Also the Kin one and two supposedly have new flash technology that makes the flash two times brighter so even though the kin one only has one led flash it supposedly does the work of two. I noticed as well the hardware buttons for the camera, volume rocker, and the lock button are oddly placed. The camera button is on the top right hand side of the phone but its placed on the curve of the top as well as the volume rocker that’s on the opposite side on the curve of the top. As you all know most phones have the lock button on the top this phone has it on the right side under the camera button. I would find myself hitting the lock button many times considering the phone is round and I would have my fingers right were the lock button is but that’s just my opinion.

Ok now lets get into the O.S. of the phone as I said in the beginning both Kins are running on Windows phone O.S. for Kin. This is a very clean O.S. everything is very strait forward. Once you unlock the phone you are greeted to a nice green and black double column of apps messages, phone, email, browser, music & more, settings, alarm, camera, feed reader, search, contacts, and help. At the bottom right hand of the screen there is a clock button, if you tap this you get to see your service bars your ringer volume time and battery life. Directly in the middle there is a green circle this is called the spot were you can drag all the info you want from your facebook twitter myspace or any other social networking site to and than send to whoever you want, also you can share pictures right from the camera application witch is nice. All you do is drag a picture from the list to the spot and presto you can send it to whoever you want! The phone also has three panels that you can switch to. If you slide your finger to the left you will get the loop now what the loop does is integrate all your social networks together and have everyone’s latest posts, tweets, or updates all in one place on your phone. As I said before you can drag and drop anything you want from the loop to the spot and share it with anyone. Than if you slide your finger to the left again you will come to your favorites were you get to set anyone you want to that panel. The phone also comes with Zune player were you can play your music, buy songs, and import them from your computer. Overall the phone really isn’t that bad I personally give it a thumbs up for its O.S. features and good use of real estate for the keyboard.

Next I will give you a brief look at the Kin two. Since the Kin two runs the same O.S. I will just give you a overview of the outside of the phone. First thing I noticed about this phone is that the screen was definitely bigger. The Kin two has a 3.4” high res TFT, QVGA (320x240) capacitive touch screen much bigger than its little brother the Kin one. This phone has a 3.5mm headphone jack as well as the Kin one (considering it runs zune player). Now this phone (apposed to the Kin one) has a 8mp camera! That is as good as the droid incredible some would say. Also it shoots 720p video that is truly amazing for a phone. The Kin two also has a slide out qwerty keyboard just like the Kin one but instead of sliding from the bottom it comes out of the side making for a much larger keyboard. The camera button is on the bottom right hand side of the device and you have the volume rocker to the top of the same side. Than you have the lock button on the opposite side of the camera and volume buttons. I give this phone two thumbs up because of its larger size and its bigger qwerty keyboard (even though it doesn’t use all the real estate it could have for the keyboard).

Well this is my review on the Kin one and Kin two this is joshontech and I will see you in my next review