“Windows Mobile”and “iPhone-like”are not two phrases you tend to see together (other than in the sentence “Windows Mobile is far from iPhone-like”).
Nevertheless, a group of ex-Apple engineers are aiming to bring a touch of the iPhone’s UI class to smartphone multimedia browsing, starting with Windows Mobile.
Kinoma Play is a tool for finding and playing multimedia on your mobile. You can aggregate RSS feeds of podcasts and other media, index your movies, music and pictures and access them all through a single interface. It’s a vit like the desktop ‘Internet TV’ player Miro but optimised for mobile and with a borader remit.
The initial beta is WInMO only, but Kimona have working code for Symbian and Linux-based phones and are explicitly aiming at people who like the idea of the iPhone’s multimedia capabilities, but aren’t sold on the iPhone itself.
“If you are going to buy an iPhone you buy an iPhone,” Kimona’s Peter Hoddie told The Register, “But there are also people who will never buy an iPhone. They have something that’s already interesting and they want to do something their browser can’t.”
Hi Stuart,
Just an FYI, Kinoma Play is not in beta. The product is fully launched and open to all.
Thanks!