Microsoft has confirmed today that they are pulling the plug on the Kin One and Kin Two smartphones, after sales fell well below expectations.
Additionally, the Kin phones will not make it to Europe as promised, and the entire Kin team has been moved over to the company's Windows Phone 7 division.
Says Microsoft: "We have made the decision to focus exclusively on Windows Phone 7 and ... [ read the full article ]
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The text plan is not needed. If it was then it would be the minimum talk plan 450 min plan with unlimited text is $59.99 plus the data plan at 29.99. that would equal $89.98, not $70. Anyways, I'm glad that phone is no longer going to be made.
What would be awesome is if these phones were dumped on the pay as you go providers like Tracphone, Net10, Straighttalk, etc who could have a nice-ish smartphone and a cheap plan. I have to agree...I only grudgingly got my daughter a cell phone, but I refuse to pay more than $20-30/mo for the service.
LMAO, I really like to hear micro$haft dropping the ball yet again, as if Billy G hasn't got his fingers in enough pies already, he tries to monopolies the pc market, games console market, then wants a slice of the phone and mp3 player market, they should learn by now people like ipods not zunes, and lets face it, u can get loads of phones which look like an iphone, plenty with the same features, but anything that don't have that famous apple logo on is just a poor imitation!!!
