There was also the HTC 7 Pro, which packed a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, as did the HTC Arrive, which hearkened back to the "communicator" style devices that HTC was building in the early days. There was the HTC HD7, a successor to the legendary HD2. Let's have a look at those early offerings. Since we're on the topic of hindsight, Microsoft employees were a bit premature when they held a mock funeral for the iPhone, certain in the success of Windows Phone. Would this be the end of the fledgling Android OS? Well, with the benefit of hindsight, no, not at all. All of them were already making Android devices, but now the maker of the dominant desktop OS (and one of the standout mobile OSes of years prior) had joined the game. The Cons list tells the story of a severely undercooked OS - no copy/paste, no multitasking, no USB mass storage mode, no system-wide file manager, no Wi-Fi tethering and so on and so on.ĭespite all that, later in 2010 the first WP7 phones launched, hailing from several different makers - HTC, Samsung, LG and even Dell. You can read our early review of Windows Phone 7. There was also an approved list of chipsets, which made WP7 handsets lag behind Android in the CPU core count race. For example, only WVGA (480 x 800px) resolution was supported initially. The company did set some requirements for the hardware, which held back early WP7 handsets. Originally Microsoft thought it could follow the same game plan as with Windows Mobile and indeed the PC - license the software, let others worry about the hardware.
Well, Kin's fate was sealed from the beginning it seems, since the Windows Phone 7 platform was announced in early 2010. We've covered the Kin story before, now we wanted to focus on what happened in the decade that followed. Danger was home to the likes of Andy Rubin and Matias Duarte, which people familiar with Android history should know quite well.
The first generation came out in 2010 and was designed by Danger - the company behind the Hiptop (aka T-Mobile Sidekick). Microsoft and Verizon somehow managed to kill the Kin phones twice.
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