The Microsoft Kin Is Coming Back To Life On Verizon

The Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two – which were killed off six weeks after launching – are coming back to life according to a leaked Verizon roadmap. Why, God, why?

The devices are now dubbed KIN ONEm and KIN TWOm and will supposedly be “completely debundled from data services” this time around. [PPC Geeks via Engadget]

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    Travis New

    Friday, November 12, 2010 at 1:44 PM

    The phones weren’t bad. A lot of other people/business have taken ideas from it as well. I think it will help at least to change the perception of MSFTs phones.

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      Simon Reidy

      Friday, November 12, 2010 at 8:33 PM

      You’re kidding right? These phones were DOA. Read up on some reviews of them and you’ll quickly see what a disaster the entire ecosystem is, and how crappy the hardware and UI runs.

      The only good thing to potentially come out of Kin is the online timeline features for your pics and vids etc. Hopefully MS will revive that in some way with WP7, but the Kin phones are so limiting in every other way that you’d be crazy (or just very ill-informed) to buy one instead of any one of the new WP7 phones on the market.

      None of this applies o us Aussies anyway, but it’s still interesting to see that MS hasn’t killed Kin off entirely.

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