Microsoft's unveils 'social' phone for Boho hipsters Is it a Palm Pre, a Sidekick, or an iPhone? No, it's Microsoft's long-awaited mobile phone that borrows from all these, and it's called KIN. On Monday, the company unveiled the KIN One and the KIN Two, its so-called social phones that combine the look of the Pre and the teen-popular Sidekick from Danger and Sharp, with the …
Sounds rather ideal for a certain age group who want a cheapish phone that lets them quickly upload their hundreds of pictures and videos. I mean a lot of people of the right age group pretty much just want a phone to do their social networking, take phone calls and take pictures so this is pretty much perfect for them.
Not for me but certainly can see a big market if it's priced right (which is free on most contracts and maybe just over £100 (at most) on PayG).
I'm shocked... Shocked, I tell you, that there are no hysterical Flash fanbois (Flashbois?) screaming their heads off about a lack of Flash and threatening to never buy a Microsoft product again. There's a word for this, people... it begins with an "h" and rhymes with dippocrite.
C'mon Adobe evangelists, don't let me down!
Maybe it's because this is a cheap phone for teenagers to twat each other's mybook uppokes, not a 'serious' (see I can't even omit the inverted commas) smartphone that has had a massive amount of talking-up as the best small object for browsing the web ever and there is NOTHING ON EARTH AS GOOD AS IT. EVER.
Oh, and I expect this will cost about 20% of what the iPhone does.
As usual, if it isn't rabid anti-Iphone bollocks issuing forth, it's rabid fanbois trying to poke the hornet's nest into providing the correct respone.
It's a fucking phone. Are we in any danger of either side getting that tricky fact anytime soon?
A crowded market in which they are encouraging other manufacturers to partner with them to sell Windows Mobile. Now they are competing with those same partners.
If the Kin's price is not competitive, it won't sell. If it undercuts partners, the partners will cut costs by using Android for free rather than licensing Windows Mobile. In which case Windows Mobile either has to become free, or MS has to pay partners to use it.
This is all way too confusing for simple non-MBAs like me to figure out.
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