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March 16, 2011 4:00 AM PDT
Kin 1 and 2
Nobody we know of keeps track, but the Kin 1 and 2 mobile phones were likely the shortest lived products in Microsoft history. The phones, cute little gadgets (at least cute in the way that pudgy babies are), lasted but 48 days until Microsoft decided, on June 30, 2010, to discontinue the product line.
Nobody we know of keeps track, but the Kin 1 and 2 mobile phones were likely the shortest lived products in Microsoft history. The phones, cute little gadgets (at least cute in the way that pudgy babies are), lasted but 48 days until Microsoft decided, on June 30, 2010, to discontinue the product line.
The phones may have looked great, but they didn't work great. Aimed at the social-networking crowd, the Kins had a fatal flaw. Users couldn't upload photos to Twitter. And it didn't help that Verizon charged $70 a month for Kin's data plan.
Photo by James Martin/CNET
Caption by Jay Greene
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/2300-10805_3-10007066-2.html?tag=mncol#ixzz1Gm8BkHIR
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