Much more than a children's museum or family entertainment center, KidZania takes interactive entertainment and learning to an entirely new level by combining role playing with real life.
KidZania creates a kid-centric city experience designed to educate and inspire 4- to 14-year olds - from arriving at the airport, to visiting a city center to exploring the city streets. We replicate the real world in a safe and self-contained over 7,000 square meter kid-sized city. As in the real world, children choose activities - such as being a police officer, doctor, journalist or a shopkeeper - and earn money which they can then spend or save. KidZania operates just like a real city complete with buildings, paved streets, vehicles, a functioning economy and recognizable destinations in the form of "establishments" sponsored and branded by leading multi-national and local brands. The facilities are designed to educate through experience, fostering the development of life skills, but from a kid perspective - it's all about fun.
KidZania, Inc., headquartered in Mexico, is privately held. This award-winning concept is recognized globally for its unique blend of entertainment and education for children. The first KidZania opened in Mexico City in 1999. There are eightother locations including, Monterrey, Mexico; Tokyo, Jakarta,Koshien, Lisbon, Dubai, Seoul and Kuala Lumpur. To date, more than 20 million kids and parents have visited the facilities globally. The trajectory continues with 13 facilities in development, including a new facility in Mexico City where kids can drive from point-to-point.
KidZania Kuwait is a (7,000 square meter) facility, located inthe Phase 3 extension of The Avenues.
Nokia, Huawei, Samsung and HTC developing next-gen Windows Phone 8 handsets - Pocket-lint.com
The next generation of Windows Phone 8 devices will be coming from Nokia, Huawei, Samsung and HTC, sitting on new Qualcomm hardware, Microsoft announced today at the Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco.
There has been a question over which manufacturers will continue to develop for Windows Phone following the big step made by Nokia to support the platform. We now have confirmation that we'll be seeing new devices, not only from the Lumia family, but also from others.
Currently there are no details about what to expect from the announced "hardware" partners, but with Windows Phone 8 ushering wider support for hardware, we can expect to see some exciting devices launched.
HTC was criticised for the resolution of its giant HTC Titan handset, but with Windows Phone 8 offering support for 1280 x 720 resolution displays, we could see Windows Phone evolutions of the HTC One X like our mock-up above, or Samsung's Galaxy S III, arriving on the Microsoft platform.
NFC support and support for multi-core chipsets will of course appeal to manufacturers using both on Android devices, but we're still left wondering who'll include microSD card support. We're backing Samsung on that one...
You can see what's new in Windows Phone 8 in our round-up. Sadly, if you're an existing Windows Phone user, you'll have to get a new handset before you can get all the benefits, as there is no upgrade path for existing devices.
UPDATEFollowing the details from Microsoft today, HTC has confirmed its love of Windows Phone, but also made clear that we'll have new hardware in with a 2012 launch date. "HTC is committed to Windows Phone more than ever and we are excited to be bringing new Windows Phone 8-enabled smartphones to customers later this year," said Peter Chou, CEO.
Returning the compliment,Terry Myerson, corporate VP of Windows Phone, said: "HTC is one of our closest partners and we share a common goal in driving people-centric innovation, which makes it easy to work together. We can’t wait to see how HTC brings Windows Phone 8 to its product portfolio."
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