@Loverock Davidson
1.) Bull! The only people who complain about Microsoft have reason to complain about Microsoft. Lately, that's because Microsoft has done nothing but offer too little, too late. The Kin appears to be bearing out this thought.
2.) $29.99 is really a pretty good price for a feature phone; it's certainly no deal breaker when you compare it to all the other feature phones out there. However, the Kin wasn't announced as a feature phone, but rather as competition to the smart phone and Apple's iPhone in particular.
3.) Microsoft itself, as I said, originally announce the Kin models as a way to draw attention away from Android and the iPhone. That alone puts the Kin in competition with consumer-level smart phones. As such, it is underpowered and insufficient for the task it was given. Honestly, the Kin would have extreme difficulty pulling kids off of Twitter and Facebook.
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