On Monday at about 10 AM PT/1 PM ET in San Francisco, Microsoft is scheduled to host a “Share” press conference at the “Mighty” club in San Francisco. Although the invitations have been somewhat cryptic, the event is largely expected to be the unveiling of the so-called “Pink” phones, the successor (at least in spirit) to the Sidekick phones.
Mark Hachman will be at the event in San Francisco, live-blogging the announcements as they are made. Oddly enough, Microsoft is holding a smaller version of the same event in New York on Monday as well; our understanding is that this is geared more toward hands-on time than a flashy news announcement. Our top phone analyst, Sascha Segan, will at that event.
Since the dual presentations are somewhat odd for the industry, we’re playing it a bit by ear. At this point, we’re not sure if Sascha will be able to step in and comment — or whether he’ll have all the news in hand by the time the San Francisco event begins.
Supposedly the new phones will be released for Verizon Wireless, and manufactured by Sharp. But what flavor of operating system will they use: Windows Phone 7, or something else? We won’t know until the announcement.
The event’s over, but see a transcript of our live blog with details on the Kin phones after the jump! –Ed.
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