Questions raised over Microsoft's Kin

Perhaps there are millions of users who simply want to Facebook, Twitter and SMS their friends but don't want to bother about technology, millions of users who won't want to bother about adding other applications to their Kin.
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There will be millions to buy this device AND show it off.

I think the writer could ask the same questions about MS Vista: a dead born baby between two stars.......

People will buy now and 6 months later buy again and again..........

M$ is not stupid.;)
 
Prof.Merlin said:
Somebody will have to pay me to use it
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...but your kid will probably be quite grateful for it. As for me, I will happily stick with Nokia, BB or something with decent reputation and won't bring the house down every time I haul it to make a call. ;)
 
PPJ said:
There will be millions to buy this device AND show it off.

I think the writer could ask the same questions about MS Vista: a dead born baby between two stars.......

People will buy now and 6 months later buy again and again..........

M$ is not stupid.;)
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+1 M$, all about d moolah.....
 
adamr said:
this phone actually trumps the BB in the ugly department ... did not think that would be possible ...
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Listen, it is seriously hard to out ugly the BB and I have to agree - this thing is horrendous.

Aah well - Kines or whatever the nex tone is called will probably be OK.
 
One very likely market for this is the cheaper younger people whose parents don't want to shell out lots of money risking their kids spending excessive amounts of money on apps and data.

It has all the basic social functions many teens would need, and might be intended to gain mindshare more than raw market share.

All this would depend on it being at a low enough price point though. Then, down the line when the kid that's now grown up to afford their own phone, they might opt for a proper Win7 phone. It would be quite similar, but much more powerful.
 
I don't think people know how few people are "technologically capable" (not sure how to describe it). I realized it when after a jool party at a friends house the bunch of us that were still standing wanted to watch a movie and the guy didn't even know you can connect his laptop to their LCD screen that had a D-SUB connection. Afterward everyone "praised me for this marvelous feat" while I was awestruck that I was the only one who knew it in a room of 7-10 3rd year students at TUKS. I wouldn't be surprised if you tell me that of all the smart phones out there only 5%of them are used to their full potential. Now Microsoft probably did their research and only enabled this phone with the essentials not wasting time or money on extra's that only a few will actually use.
 
Kapow said:
I don't think people know how few people are "technologically capable" (not sure how to describe it). I realized it when after a jool party at a friends house the bunch of us that were still standing wanted to watch a movie and the guy didn't even know you can connect his laptop to their LCD screen that had a D-SUB connection. Afterward everyone "praised me for this marvelous feat" while I was awestruck that I was the only one who knew it in a room of 7-10 3rd year students at TUKS. I wouldn't be surprised if you tell me that of all the smart phones out there only 5%of them are used to their full potential. Now Microsoft probably did their research and only enabled this phone with the essentials not wasting time or money on extra's that only a few will actually use.
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I think I am with you on that one. phones are way too complicated for a increasingly large portion of the populous. I saw some recent stats that Blackberry users in the US only accounted for 4% of mobile web traffic (iphone was 50%, Android was 24%). It comes to show how blackberry can offer unlimited email and internet for a flat fee. They know the bulk of the users won't be able to figure out how to surf the web and setup the email on their blackberry.

I know of many people, who use no additional features of their phones, than what they had in their Nokia 5110 10 years ago.

Back to the topic. Microsoft seems to have done good research, came to the right conclusion, but messed up the execution on the the look,feel and marketing side.
 
it is confusing, i'd have to agree.
they certainly seem to be mining a saturated niche of the market and will truly have to do something revolutionary with this device in order to get significant market share.
what os does it run? i'm assuming some version of winmo?
 
murraybiscuit said:
it is confusing, i'd have to agree.
they certainly seem to be mining a saturated niche of the market and will truly have to do something revolutionary with this device in order to get significant market share.
what os does it run? i'm assuming some version of winmo?
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It's one of the first phones running a version of Windows Mobile 7.

One theory is that they're trying to get a device to market as soon as possible, and then bring out a more functional update with the next devices.

This gives them a chance to get feedback from a less demanding crowd of users as well.
 
KIN One


2.6-inch 320 x 240 pixel QVGA capacitive touchscreen display
5-megapixel camera with built-in autofocus
LED flash
4 GB of flash storage
QWERTY keyboard
Wi-Fi b/g
256 MB DDR RAM
FM Radio
Accelerometer
GPS
KIN Two


3.4-inch HVGA 480 x 320 pixel capacitive touchscreen display
8-megapixel camera with autofocus
LED flash
8 GB storage
QWERTY keyboard
1390 mAh battery
Wi-Fi b/g
256 MB DDR RAM
FM Radio
Accelerometer
GPS

Microsoft-KIN,A-G-245320-1.jpg
 
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