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Microsoft has announced a new update of its browser for the unit staff MSN Direct. MSN Direct provides information such as traffic, gas prices, weather, movie times and more navigation devices like the Garmin Nuvi 880 and Mio Moov S556M, but the improvements that will add more features to the driver’s seat sits more like a cabin.

Doppler Weather Maps

Improvements include full Doppler weather maps that provide weather updates, allowing you to view as text or images in all weather radar and map overlays. You will be able to see if the storm of rain in the front of the light, medium or heavy, you will make a decision on whether to stop and wait out the storm of miles before they need to run the risk of driving through him. More impressively, you will be notified if the conditions of ice or snow storm ahead are the light, the mixture of heavy and light ice or heavy snow. We are particularly impressed by these changes, which are most relevant to driver safety than ever.

Flight Status Updates

The system also allows you to check the latest status of flight. This is ideal when you need to pick up a friend at the airport and have to choose between going through McDonald’s, or try to get to time to see your friends of flight is delayed. You can check flight departure or arrival in the city or the flight number and the system will tell if the plane is on time, late, or if the flight is canceled or redirected to another airport.

Microsoft also announced that MSN Direct is available in 134 markets in 26 personal navigation devices, and air traffic service is available in two metropolitan areas, as usual.

Today, we were invited to lunch by some picturesque Microsoft New York, where we have been able to get your hands on the new phones Kin. Although we only had very little time with the devices, our overall impression is that they are well constructed, and certainly can see what Microsoft will do with its role MOTOBLUR Loop-esque for the dissemination of social networks changes. We also like the design of small separate Kin One, even if you have a camera of low resolution and smaller screen. It’s like a hippie with a keyboard better, at least from the outside.

Our favorite feature is Kin Studio, which automatically backup photos, videos, updates, and contacts to the cloud and present your material in a calendar. In fact, we believe to be baked in Windows 7 Phone. Unfortunately, there are some areas that lack large enough functionality in both devices.

There is much that we like the Microsoft approach to their new handset Kin, especially when it comes to ease of sharing content with other Studio users and the functionality to view all the photos and videos that have entered into a slick calendar . However, in some respects, Kin feels incomplete, even given its target audience of the demons of social networks.

1. No applications and games from third parties: It’s just really strange omission, given that applications have become a form of social currency. We found that Twitter, Facebook and MySpace are integrated, but not games? N Foursquare?
2. N IM: Microsoft has told us that SMS is the primary means of communication with the target of Kin. But there are many people who want to make direct contact with people using other media such as Twitter.
3. No calendar application: Kin users live in the present, and apparently has no place livestreaming to plan too far. You can set an alarm if! And you can also use the online calendars.
4. No GPS: Although you can know how to reach the addresses on the cards Bing, step-by-turn navigation is not part of Kin-at least not at launch.
5. You can not share images on Twitter: This is a head scratching. Given how easy it is to share photos via email, MMS, and Facebook, we also see Kin owners post photos (and video) and its updates.

Lack Bonus Feature: Only relatives will automatically download the videos you capture with your camera online Kin Studio. The Kin Two high-resolution images (720p) is too large to download, but I do not see why Microsoft can not compress the images in the process.