Microsoft kills the KIN, refuses to sell it in Europe

thank fucking Christ!!!

Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

R.I.P. P.O.S.

When they showed these at work prior to release I thought it was the biggest error we made since passing on iPhone. From the crappy user interface to the $30 for data. I hated it from the start.
Several weeks later we received formal training on it and I began to see a market for it. I still felt like the lack of smart features and presence of the smart data plan still would not work. The correct market for a device like this was 12 – 18 year olds who live and breathe social networking, but lack disposable income.
In a seperate training class recently we went to the web to read reviews on the Kin, there were 33 for Kin, and 39 for Kin II. I think 500 sold is an inflated number.
Horrible concept, cheap product, ridiculous data plan, half-witted marketing.

It’s not that they they refuse to sell it
It’s that customers refuse to buy it
OBVIOUSLY
Because it’s crap

This phone was supposed to replace the sidekick?! Yea right. Even after they tried to scare everyone away by crashing their servers and database for a whole month. They’re better off making a new sidekick.

This phone was supposed to replace the sidekick?! Yea right. Even after they tried to scare everyone away by crashing their servers and database for a whole month. They’re better off making a new sidekick. That would sell to the thousands of remaining die hards out there. I for myself sold my Sidekick LX 09 and joined #teamblackberry

I have to agree, Verizon is more at fault with the Kins failing. Wrong data plan, $30 for their target market is too high, teenagers don’t work or have a job to pay for it, and adults think twice about paying $30 data plan for any smartphone. They should have done $10 data plan like Tmobile does with the Nokia Nuron.

The smaller one looks like the Pre’s fat sister.

Glad they finally realized the kin is a terrible idea

Hate away, but as a social-network-driven Teen, I’ve like the idea of the KIN. In application, it probably sucks (the interface looks clunky as hell) but a cheap monthly rate for good to great social networking is what I’m looking for. It looks like the iPad’s the closest to that description.

I don’t see how Windows Phone 7 can succeed either(even if they make it open source, which they won’t).

What a joke this phone was from the beginning.

really what was M$ thinking it wasn’t better than any feature phone, like the env touch? It was a brain f&rt at best. Bye bye.

When the Kin was released I thought it was slow, and couldn’t even compare to a voyager or dare or env. It has social networking plastered all over the os it doesn’t even make sense on how to use it. So far from user friendly, who wants to wait for a phone to do what it advertises, and to pay 30$ a month when you can get any number of phones that are faster and have the same features where you have a choice as to whther social networking is scattered all over it or not, this phone was destined to fail.

Its not verizons fault this thing has to be connected to a data network 24/7, but I guess its not microsofts fault that verizon doesn’t allow it to be on their 9.99 data for regular phones. Either way, the phone is too slow and too annoying to use. If you want to make a phone like that at least give it a chance to compete by adding a user friendly interface and some hardware to back it up. Android phones are going to take over soon anyway. They will make cheaper phones that do social networking and no one is going to want anything else since verizon requires a data plan for almost any phone now.

So what now? How many units did MS produce that’s now going to grace landfills en masse? What a waste of money, resource, commodities, talent, rare-earth minerals, etc. This has got to be a window (pun intended, I guess) into how their upcoming flagship mobile OS will sell.

No surprise here. Nobody wants it. It’s a lame phone. With its limitations, it’s basically nothing more than a glorified feature phone, but Verizon is trying to charge close to smartphone plan pricing for it. And the OS itself is just pathetic. One look is all I needed to figure that out. I’d sure like to know who was in their focus groups, because Microsoft is seriously out of touch with reality on this one. Makes you wonder how good Windows Phone 7 is actually going to be.

Didn’t they do any research on the demographic they were trying to sell to?
“Hey guys my daughter said this phone is cool so it’ll sell like crazy!”
NO, your daughter is a lying teenage bitch. You should have gotten a test group and seen how the phone did in the test group. Morons!

Call me a pessimist.. but I’d be surprised if even 1 of these things were actually sold.

alot of money wasted on this phone – they were advertising the crap out of it for weeks – did no one really test this phone in the wild to see how it would be received? plus they released the kin phone a little over a month before the iphone 4 was announced – not good timing! besides the promotions only mentioned social networking features… did anybody else know what the actual features were other than social networking? also the kin would have done better if it was on the anticipated windows 7 op but instead they used windows ce

For all of Microsoft’s arguments for ‘innovation’, it seems anytime they try to make something different, it fails. If the business world wasn’t inundated with Windows and Office, this would be a failing company if they were trying to break into the market. Only by taking a “me too” approach and slapping the Microsoft name on it are they selling products just by brand recognition and regurgitation of existing product lines.

bad……