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Microsoft Unveils 'Pink' Phones As Kin One and Two
adeelarshad82 writes "Microsoft has recently launched two new phones known as the Kin One and Kin Two, previously codenamed 'Pink.' The phones are designed to appeal to social-networking-focused teens, which is probably why the marketing team has tried to spice up the packaging of the phones. According to a Microsoft official the phones are named Kin because they 'knit together ... kindred spirits.' The phones have a keyboard. The Kin One has a 5-megapixel camera, while the Kin Two's 8-megapixel camera can shoot 720p HD video. Both cameras include an LED flash. The One has a mono speaker, the Two's is stereo. One includes 4GB of on-board memory and the Two has 8GB. Both Kin phones have touch screens. According to the hands-on, the Kin phones are based on the same Windows CE core as Windows Phone 7, and they have an IE-based browser. These phones have no downloadable apps, no games, not even a calendar. They're not meant to be expandable smart phones; instead, very good messaging phones."
"No apps. Less functionality than an iPhone. Lame."
See, Taco, this is how you make correct prophecies...
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Trolling is a art,
In all fairness, though, they'll probably sell like hotcakes in the niche market they're designed for.
They'll be the first (and last) phone which has MILEY in its A9 dictionary.
Trolling is a art,
I hope this device will be as successful as the zune.
It's running zunes os after-all.
Maybe they should swap the 'Kin' and 'One' around. Rename it the "One Kin". People wont know what you are 'Two Kin' about. Just wait for the 'Four Kin'.
Maybe then we can have the Microsoft 'fucking' and 'wanking' phones.
microsoft needs to focus on something with broad appeal. There's a reason iPhone beat them in that space, and this is exactly it.
It appeals to broads?
"Kin"?
Well, at least it'll sell well in Appalachia, enabling teens to keep track of which cousins are dating which.
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"No apps. Less functionality than an iPhone. Lame."
Yes, but you get something you don't get with Apple. You get abused by Microsoft.
Is this the Windows Vista of phones, the Windows ME of phones, or the Zune of phones?
IM is basically worthless if you have SMS.
SMS > IM.
Awesome! I can’t wait for the homemade porn.
* For values of “teen” equaling 18 or 19, of course.
I'm guessing that niche is "parents who can be convinced by advertising that they're buying what their kids want".
It worked for Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge...
More Twoson than Cupertino
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle ...in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of incompetence"), and there they remain, being unable to earn further promotions. This principle can be modeled and has theoretical validity. Peter's Corollary states that "in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties" and adds that "work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence".
In the corporate world especially, upper level politics and kickbacks and alliances always end up chucking creativity out the door, grinding it into the pavement, and writing off as an R&D expense as it's scooped into the dust bin.
Google avoids this by letting employees work on their own pet projects that get picked up for major development as they gain popularity in their internal culture, which seems to be quite good at picking winners. Apple has so far escaped this only because it's run like North Korea. There's one maniacal prick and marketing genius at the top of the food chain, and everyone else is meaningless.
And by the way, which one is Pink?
--- squirted from my Zune.
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Tweens and Teens sounds like a pretty big market to me.
Yeah, I was looking at that...
This phone is specifically designed to increase the supply of questionable-legal-age teen pron.
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