Looks like Microsoft's not-so-pleasurable experience with the Kin hasn't affected the tech giant's ultimate mobile phone plans.
What then would be the reason behind this latest prototype smart-phone it has come up with? The phone, known as the "Menlo" internally, is a touchscreen smart-phone with a capacitive touch screen (4.1-inch diagonal, 800x480).
The phone and its spec details appeared on a Microsoft Research Paper (PDF) titled "User Experiences with Activity-Based Navigation on Mobile Devices". The phone runs Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 which incorporates a Bosch BMA150 3-axis accelerometer and Bosch BMP085 digital pressure sensor (barometer). The paper also comes with something known as "Greenfield", which happens to be an activity-based navigation app that helps users find a specific parked car.
While, all this does sound impressive, can we take this development as a hint towards the chance of Microsoft opting to make its own smart-phone? True, the Kin experiment proved to be a disaster - but then, that wasn't a smart-phone platform.
We have our fingers crossed!
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