“After being labeled as one of Microsoft’s greatest failures having been pulled from sale after only six weeks during its original run, the Kin One and Kin Two are back on sale with Verizon,” Electronista reports. “With the re-release has come a slight name change to the Kin ONEm and Kin TWOm. Microsoft only sold 8,810 units during the initial product run, but hopes to turn the disastrous sales numbers around with more attractive pricing plans.”
Electronista reports, “This time, Verizon is selling the Kin ONEm for $20 on a two-year plan, while the Kin TWOm is being sold for $50 in a buy-one-get-one-free deal; the second phone included for the price is the LG Ally. There is also a $35 activation price. Still included is the Zune Pass option, but downloads are restricted to Wi-Fi and side-loading only. Monthly costs start at $40 for voice and an additional $10 for data.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Masochistsoft.
@Silverhawk… “ONEm and TWOm? Where did that come from?”
how much you wanna bet it’s done by adding a “m” sticker to every phone left over from the previous launch…
Wait, wait wait . . . so Microsoft can’t even get the date right? It’s April 1, right? Because there’s no other explanation for this, other than recycling costs for those Kins produced but not sold was higher than begging Verizon to take them off of your hands.
BM,
Could you at least have bothered to “Google” some info before making up all this:
“On the other hand Cupertino is located in the desert of California near busy highways, the sun is blocked most of the time by heavy smog and it’s hot. Conditions there tend to motivate one to get their ass in gear to make enough money to hopefully buy their way to someplace more climate and health friendly.”
The only thing remotely true is that Hwy 280 is a block from
Apple HQ.
Don’t write about things you don’t know anything about. It just shows how much you don’t know and casts doubt about anything you write about in the future.
Does BM stand for Bowel Movement?
WOW man. That’s TWO Zune déja vus in two days! I’m must be really tripping. Bad acid man.
Ok, so the Kin sucks but no one cares that Verizon is carrying this? Worry that a phone carrier carries junk and then tries to sell it.
Are these the same exact phones as the first release? They might not have had to make any new ones, and might be getting rid of inventory.
Clearly, they can’t do anything else with them that would add any value. The market revealed that ugly reality. I suspect they’re just trying to shift the expense for hauling these things to the landfill to their gullible customers.
Fairly creative, I think.
@bunch of monkeys
I don’t know wher you live. Under a rock? Cupertino has clear skies and a beautiful climate. Among the best in the world. I will admit it is a bit chilly this morning. At nine thirty only 60, but you can see 50 miles. Come visit us someday, we are nowhere near LA BTW.
May he remain at the helm of Microsoft until the rabble of villagers with torches (shareholders) corner him at the top of a burning windmill!
MS spent one quarter of a BILLION $ to
develop this phone? I presume it can be
written off as a “business expense”?
Should the IRS investigate where the
money went?
“m” stans for moron.
Man oh man…ONEm? TWOm? It has to be real….you just can’t dream this shit up.
Kin who?
surprising that it’s not the Kin SEVENm
It seems Microsoft’s biggest business these days is money laundering.
Microsoft have thousands of people who work for them, yet this is all they got? I think they have cancer…. and its terminal
ONEm and TWOm? Sounds like Fester was just stuffing his face and still chewing when his product manager asked how they’re gonna market the surplus inventory. Or maybe he was reprising his role as The Monster in Frankenstein Junior.
M$ is definitely in bad shape…! That’s for sure, now! 😡
So next week the can launch vista again too!?
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I don’t get their strategy, I don’t get it at all
It could be worse ( or better). They were originally going to call the phones the “A” and “B” phones, so now they would be the “Am” and Bm” phones. Perfect!
So, this phone is the “Next of Kin” and that’s who needs to be notified.
This is astoundingly lame, even for Microsoft.
“…downloads are restricted to Wi-Fi and side-loading only.”
Does anyone here know what side-loading means?
I guess they aren’t satisfied with the size of the crater they made the first time.
Microsoft thinks the Kin Moan and the Kin Tomb can be even bigger failures than that.
@ Davidlow:
Side-loading is an euphemism for rear loading, they had to change it because of the sodomy laws.
@R2:
STFU and take your meds.