Microsoft shows-off with KInect and Window 8/Phone at their last Consumer Electronic Show – Part 2

The presentation was very interactive but Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer asserted that the utility of Kinect is not limited. He said that programmers at MS are working hard to develop more applications that will implicate changes in the usage of Kinect as a gaming device, PC peripheral and also in the home entertainment.

This was the biggest announcement by Microsoft in years. Ironically, the last big launch by the company staged at CES was the release of original Xbox in 2001. This however, gives the company a perfect closure to a 15-year association with the event.

Microsoft did not assert much on Windows and Windows Phone. They were cautious this time around, with the unhappy experience of the flop launches of Slate PC and Hewlett-Packard Slate in the history. Therefore, they handed over the ball to their partners-in-business. Samsung, being the biggest partner of Microsoft’s Windows (desktop version), announced a new line of laptops and all-in-one tablets that would embrace the Windows 8 with Metro interface.

On the other hand, Nokia, Microsoft’s new partner in smartphone industry, announced a new LTE Windows Phone 7.5 Mango-based handset, the Lumia 900. The smartphone is the first Windows-based device that will incorporate LTE technology, meaning the fourth generation (4G) network from AT&T.

The handset has inherited all the features from its sibling, Lumia 800, except for two things; the 4Gcompatibility and a front-facing camera. The smartphone has the same single-core processor clocked at 1.4 GHz with 512 MB of RAM. Although this is a bit low tech, Microsoft insists that their mobile operating system does not need heavy duty dual-core processors and GBs of RAM, which eventually lowers down the costs of the devices.

For the first time Nokia is launching the smartphone in the US market with the advanced 4G network.

There were many other companies at the show which displayed their versions of Windows and Windows Phone-based devices but Samsung and Nokia shined out.

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Posted by Usman Khalid on Jan 10 2012. Filed under Sci-Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry