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____/ RonB on Thursday 01 Jul 2010 01:11 : \____
> On Jun 30, 6:30 pm, Tattoo Vampire <sitt...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> RIP the "Kin"... overpriced, featureless junk... killed off by Microsoft
>> after less than 2 months. Now they're buzzing about Windows Phone 7 as if
>> it's going to save them in the cellphone market.
>
>
> "Microsoft to kill off Kin mess..."
>
> "Rumors have been swirling for weeks that the Kin One and Kin Two, a
> pair of QWERTY slider phones aimed at young, social-networking-savvy
> mobile users, had seen disastrously low sales, with some estimates as
> low as a mere 500 units."
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2982
>
> Five hundred units?! If that is anywhere near true, it's incredible.
> Microsoft is flailing, but I didn't know they were flailing this badly.
Microsoft bought Danger for $500 million, so KIN was a million-dollar phone
(a million for each unit sold). :-)
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