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Stumble itMicrosoft and Verizon helped me get my hands on the Kin before launch so I could test it out and tweet about the features. This video is a review of the three pro’s and con’s to the Kin One.
Update: Microsoft Kin was discontinued after only 48 days. Whew! That didn’t take long at all. That’s about the shortest product life-cycle we can remember for this little “smart” phone. Now they are practically giving them away on clearance. Microsoft is discontinuing to use resources and build a tablet computer that will compete with Apple’s iPad. Clearly, they didn’t plan out this early discontinuation. If that had been the case, Microsoft would have launched some super high end fancy product as the end of the life-cycle of the Kin drew. That way they would lure everyone in for a clearance sale and advertise the new (already launched) product for sale.
(New York Times has the story).
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Way too much makeup, Sarah.
Where is the con from last night, “how do I make calls from this phone?”
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I want one when they get their bugs worked out! Great Video as usual Sarah!
Hey Sarah … Microsoft discontinued the Kin today. It is considered the biggest social failure ever. In the first six weeks only 500 were sold. With the 30 extra surcharge for the social features and the inability to host twitter and download aps the Kin is over. The group that developed it will be working on the windows 7 phone but don't expect anything special. Windows operating systems control less than 6 percent of the smart phones. You should update the story.