{"id":525652,"date":"2010-04-13T07:24:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T11:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=15318"},"modified":"2010-04-13T07:24:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T11:24:22","slug":"kin-to-be-exclusive-to-vodafone-in-europe-no-kin-for-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525652","title":{"rendered":"KIN to be exclusive to Vodafone in Europe, no KIN for Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"kin14\" border=\"0\" alt=\"kin14\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/kin141.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"227\" \/> Lena Goh, a spokeswoman for Microsoft in Singapore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/194093\/no_kin_phones_for_asia_microsoft_says.html\" >told PCWorld<\/a> Microsoft has no plans to bring its newly announced Kin handsets to Asia, despite the large size and relative sophistication of Asian cell-phone markets.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is not holding talks with Asian operators to offer the Kin, she said, noting that distribution agreements signed with Verizon Wireless and Vodafone were exclusive. <\/p>\n<p>While Kin is slated to be released in the U.S. and Europe, Microsoft is focusing its Asian mobile efforts on the upcoming release of Windows Phone 7, Goh said.<\/p>\n<p>Vodafone will be carrying the KIN the UK,&#160; Germany, Italy, Spain and Spain by Fall later this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMobile social networking is increasingly having strong appeal for our customers,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweekeurope.co.uk\/news\/vodafone-to-bring-microsoft-kin-to-uk-6382\" >said Patrick Chomet<\/a>, group director of terminals at Vodafone. \u201cKIN has a unique and intuitive way of engaging with the user, enabling them easily to share experiences and stay in touch with their friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vodafone has not revealed exact delivery dates or price information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-6210711459792056\";\n\/* 336x280, created 1\/7\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0551502062\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lena Goh, a spokeswoman for Microsoft in Singapore told PCWorld Microsoft has no plans to bring its newly announced Kin handsets to Asia, despite the large size and relative sophistication of Asian cell-phone markets. Microsoft is not holding talks with Asian operators to offer the Kin, she said, noting that distribution agreements signed with Verizon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}