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Microsoft's Kin 1 and 2 for Sale May 6 for $50 and $100

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Or for $10.00 less you can get a Palm Pre...

bluecoyote

May 5, 2010, 12:15 AM
Not to sound like a fanboy, but after reading the Phonescoop review, I cannot imagine a single metric which the Kin is even comparable, or better yet, not-embarassingly-inferior. They both require the same data plan, only the Pre lets you tether (legally, too.)

This is a friggin pathetic effort. Even for Microsoft standards.
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Menno

May 5, 2010, 9:22 AM
Gonna have to agree. for the price they want (especially data) there is NO reason someone should get this phone.
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KriisCDW

May 5, 2010, 10:05 AM
Win7, iPhone, Palm, BB, Android... why Kin?

If you want social networks - get one of the smart phones with one of the skins that integrates social networks.

Like say... MotoBlur or TouchFlo...

Doesn't seem to be anything to set "Kin" ahead of the crowd...
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devilvzw88

May 5, 2010, 1:01 PM
Im not a Kin fan, i've got the Moto Droid.
But.... the Kin is unique in the fact that you can use it to monitor your kids or however uses the phone. It utilizes Kin Studio and you can monitor everything from websites visited to text messages sent etc etc. But this phone isn't going to marketed to Business people or to people that want apps, this is going to be for people that have kids in the 13-18 age range, plus for the Verizon side of things it makes it so they can pitch more data packages to more people. Parents can now monitor everything their child does from Kin Studio, its pretty neat.
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Unit22

May 5, 2010, 2:34 PM
That is a very good point. I still think the rest of the phone sucks though.
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bluecoyote

May 5, 2010, 3:34 PM
I understand keeping an eye on what your kids do, but the degree of "big brotherness" provided with the Kin Studio is a bit over the top as a parent monitoring device.

I can tell you just about every high schooler in the country would pass on this and would rather have a dumbphone than give their parents such easy access to every friggin photo they take or web site they visit.

Oh, but what do kids 13-18 like to do? YouTube anyone?
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KriisCDW

May 5, 2010, 4:20 PM
Didn't realize that was something inherently baked into the product...

The next question then is... Does it require *ONLY* $30 for data? Or does it also "require" $5/$10 per month for Parental Controls or Family Locator?

Because a parent can control their phone for $5 via PC... and track via Locator: at a cost.

Included at $30? Optional? Required?

I can see where this is pointed at now tho... Was it something I just missed in the product announcements?
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mannaboy0706

May 5, 2010, 5:03 PM
Because this phone is branded as a "smartphone", the family locator application which you can only download thru the media center or on get it now capable handsets, will not work with the kin phones. Currently smartphones can only work as the locator (which is free) to locate a handset that can download the locatee app thru GIN/media center (which is the 9.99 price).
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KriisCDW

May 7, 2010, 4:06 PM
So... if your on the $30/month data plan, on a smart-phone - Locatee is a free download and no monthy fee? And it operates the same as Locator?

I generally tend to push Parental Controls and stick away from Locator (although I do mention it), so I haven't really looked into how it works on smart phones.
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mannaboy0706

May 7, 2010, 5:24 PM
Not exactly, KriisCDW....Locatee is the 9.99 application you download through any Get It Now (GIN)/Media Center handset (which means it's not a smart phone because no smart phones have Media Center). Anyone can be the locator phone as long as they have internet access, but only the locatee handset pays the 9.99 price monthly. Locator phone (or phones) don't pay the 9.99/monthly cost, it's free to be the locator phone. It is only the phone that has downloaded the locatee app thru media center that pays the cost. You can locate that handset once it's downloaded the app and it's on thru either a home PC or thru my verizon on the handset (or smartphone). So any smartphone with Verizon cannot be the locatee because again no smartphones have me...
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