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Verizon slashing Microsoft Kin prices
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article published on 27 June, 2010
According to a leak reported by BGR, Verizon is already slashing the prices of the Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two devices, part of a wider promotion that starts tomorrow.
Just last week, it was rumored that Verizon had only sold 500 Kin devices since launch in May, an unexpectedly low number, even by most conservative standards.
If the rumor is true, which seems likely, Verizon is slashing ... [ read the full article ]
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DoomLight
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27. June 2010 @ 16:54 |
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i dont think those Kin phones were a success. i know a lot of people with smartphones and no one has one of those KIN things.
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bbbob
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27. June 2010 @ 17:11 |
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My wife switches phones about every 3 months (SPOILED) and was going to get one of these until I told her it was a Microsoft phone. Then she asked me aren't they the ones with the blue screen of death,the screw up that is/was Vista and the 20 or so rrod 360's in the basement. I told her yes and now she has a blackberry
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bomber991
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28. June 2010 @ 00:40 |
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Those kin phones look like ugly pieces of crap, and as those canadians would say, they also have a dumb name to boot! If anything thing, I'd except them to be the free / entry level phone verizon offers you when you sign up on a 2 year contract.
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28. June 2010 @ 01:16 |
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these things should be sold at an "everything for 1$" store" as phones for children. just big enough not to swallow
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DSWarrior
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28. June 2010 @ 07:03 |
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LOL @ bomber991 and Josipher!
To be honest I haven't even seen a real Kin...only on the web. Almost everyone I know has a smartphone and most of them have HTCs or Blackberries ... but NO ONE owns/wants a Kin. What were Microsoft thinking when they designed this (supposedly) for teenagers? Kids nowadays only want expensive smartphones, like: iPhones, or Android based devices...
Oh well...Looks like yet another failed attempt for N$...They should really stick to computer OSes and programs and let the Kin, the Zune, the Xbox and so on, a graceful death...they will never learn.
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28. June 2010 @ 07:12 |
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Actually a lot of their revenue is generated from Xbox and game sales and Xbox Live.
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DoomLight
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28. June 2010 @ 09:19 |
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The Xbox is still number one as far as hardcore games go.
but this Kin. i just never seen one. Microsoft needs to make a smartphone that can compete with android and iphone. and Windows Mobile 7 isn't gonna do it either. it looks so plain and boring. that i can bet the reviewers are gonna flame it when its released.
the Kin is supposed to be a networking phone for social sites like facebook, twitter, etc. but u can do it so much better with an HTC, apple, blackberry, etc!
Msoft just stick with computers and xbox. Windows Mobile 6.5 was it. its dead now.
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dEwMe
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28. June 2010 @ 11:04 |
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I think they hit a real good point on the crazy high monthly fees required by these smart phones...
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28. June 2010 @ 18:30 |
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Wait a minute, should I have notice the whole Kin one - Kinect thing days ago.
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28. June 2010 @ 18:49 |
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The conventional wisdom is that the kin's were released in order to test some of the new Windows phone 7 stuff and were never really expected to be hugely popular.
I guess this doesn't bode well for the Windows phone 7... (due to be out this winter and already out dated by current Android and iPhone phones)
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28. June 2010 @ 23:41 |
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If those prices were without any contract, they would be about right...but a 2-year contract (with data) makes the Kin a bad deal at any price; even free.
Microsoft thinks that they can do what they did with PCs to the cell phone market; that is, beat Linux and Apple...but they just can't compete with Android or iPhone OS...at least not by making windows 7 the most restrictive smartphone OS in history. Heck, their smartphone sales are lower than Palm; and palm got bought by HP because they couldn't sell enough phones...now PalmOS is replacing windows on some new HP devices; Microsoft can't even hold onto the mobile market built by their own supporters!
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