![]() ![]() Microsoft killed the Kin phone line a few months later and said at the time that the Kin development team, reputed to be the Danger team, would move to support Windows Phone 7. Supposedly, Microsoft's short-lived Kin Windows Phones, announced in April 2010, were to be the successor to the Danger devices. Danger became part of Microsoft's consumer phone business under the Entertainment and Devices Division. Microsoft first announced the acquisition of Palo Alto, Calif.-based Danger Inc. A spokesperson for Microsoft said on Monday by e-mail that Microsoft had no information to share. ![]() ![]() It's unclear if Microsoft will play a role in providing data services for T-Mobile's Android-based Sidekick successor product, possibly the HTC HD2. However, no subsequent information seems to have appeared about that deal. Microsoft had announced a partnership with HTC and T-Mobile USA in January 2010 that was supposed to have been centered on HTC's forthcoming HD2 Windows-based phone. Microsoft later restored much of the missing data. The outage affected Danger data storage, causing many T-Mobile Sidekick users to temporarily lose data. The Danger service suffered a setback on Octoafter a system failure occurred on Microsoft's servers. In any case, Microsoft's Danger effort would appear to be dead in the water if there's no carrier to support it. HTC plans to distribute its HD2 smartphone exclusively through T-Mobile sometime in the spring of this year. The upcoming Android-based Sidekick is rumored to be Project Emerald, which is in turn rumored to be HTC's Desire HD and Vision smartphones. ![]()
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