Microsoft's KIN: A Eulogy
by Brian Klug on July 13, 2010 3:42 PM EST- Posted in
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- Microsoft
- KIN
- Mobile
Final Words
The reality is that the KIN launched too close to WP7 to be relevant, and too late in the game to be avant garde. Even if Microsoft had kept the platform going, it likely would've required a separate marketplace and different subset of applications. The truth is that Microsoft needs to focus all its resources and and efforts on successful WP7 launch, and build out a Windows Phone 7 Lite device after the core is established. There's a market for devices that are priced like featurephones, but deliver features they can't. Even if the KIN didn't succeed, there surely will be other devices that will if the price is right.
What's unique about KIN remains its unprecedented level of cloud integration. The KIN gave us a brief glimpse of the future of mobile integration with the cloud. Even if the platform itself failed, the KIN's cloud centric data storage and backup model remains the best out there. Android implements a number of similar features, but none of them come close to the level of integration Microsoft pulled off with KIN. Truly smart smartphones should be able to stand on their own - without a desktop they need to be nightly tethered to, synced with, or used to pull photos off.
Even though the KIN were yanked from the market under 3 months after launch, they weren't the abject failures that some have made them out to be. In fact, the competition would do wise to borrow concepts like the KIN Studio and build their own background sync services. The ideal smartphone OS is still floating around out there somewhere, waiting to be realized. Combine iOS' polish, speed, and battery life, Android's open marketplace, flash support, and customizability, WebOS's card multitasking model, beautiful UI, and finally KIN's level of cloud integration, and we might just have it.
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I've seen the like of circular packaging before :)In slovenia one mobile carrier used to sell all of its subsidized phones in tin tubes like those.
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Orbs - Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - link
The comment, "In addition, there's no settings panel for the entire browser to clear cache, cookies, or history" is incorrect.From the home screen, swipe left to the apps pane, scroll down and tap "Settings". In "Settings" swipe right to the app-specific settings and select "Browser". In the Browser Settings, you can clear data cache, cookies and history. You can also turn cookies on/off, JavaScript on/off and browse in desktop mode if you have a need for that.
Smilin - Thursday, July 15, 2010 - link
Bought one mostly for the sake of getting rid of my horrible Win 6x phone. The plan is to give it to the wife in the fall when WP7 ships. She's become familiar with it and is really looking forward to getting it.The phone actually rocks. It's easy to use, does the few things that it does very well, is easy (I said that), the "cloud" offering is something that bigger competitors could learn from.
The Kin turned into a big joke I guess but I just can't get myself to join that bandwagon. I'm sorry but **I LIKE IT**.
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