http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/ Engadget Comments for Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two announced: Windows Phone roots with a social slant (updated with video) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/
It's a couple of phones. Are you blind?]]>Apr 12th 2010 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Kin? as in your hillbilly family, or kin- short for kindle?]]>Apr 12th 2010 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Microsoft still doesn't get "it".]]>Apr 12th 2010 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/'Kin-horrible]]>Apr 12th 2010 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/This naming will help with social slants geared for certain groups

FU Kin for the douche
SU Kin for the skank
DOR Kin for the geek
MUNCH Kin for the little people]]>Apr 12th 2010 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/
Whilst I don't disagree with what you say your post is slightly ironic.

Just sayin'.]]>Apr 12th 2010 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/
Roll back the clock! I'm really diggin' on that oversized Tomagachi.
A+ to MS on that timeless, attractive design.

/s]]>Apr 12th 2010 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/As ugly as on the leaked photos. Damned, wondering if anyone's really going to buy this...]]>Apr 12th 2010 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Barbie: "Kin number one, if we were going on vacation where would you take me?"
Kin1:"well, I like burgers so probably some place that has a mcdonalds."
Barbie: "Kin number two, would you stick up for me if I got in a bitch fight?"
Kin 2: "shit yeah, I would do anything 4 u, even if it meant getting sent to the principals office."]]>Apr 12th 2010 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/
Its almost like whatever phones you guys dont like are destined to be best sellers lol.. These phones are not made for you any kid who lugged around a sidekick 08 would be lucky to have this for an upgrade..

I think this can work given Danger and Sharps past successes, throw in some M$ cash flow.. but games were a huge part of sidekicks.. No games is gonna be a tough sell.. M$ and Danger better figure somthing out fast..]]>Apr 12th 2010 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/
13 YEAR OLD GIRLS REJOICE]]>Apr 12th 2010 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Did you really have to use the N word?]]>Apr 12th 2010 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/
Oh come on, Kin 2 doesn't look that bad.

8 GB of storage and 8 MB HD camera is pretty good for a feature phone. Not to mention both have access to Zune Marketplace.

I think people are overly pessimistic. I'm not a fan of Monday's either but still...]]>Apr 12th 2010 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/
Oh wait, it already started. :(]]>Apr 12th 2010 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/
These phones are for teens that need a phone to call, text, twit and update facebook, they are simply then next gen sidekick phones]]>Apr 12th 2010 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/
I dunno; I think they look pretty respectable. Obviously no one here is going to get this phone for themselves (unless they're already used to Sidekick's ways), but I could see it getting some attention.

Kids these days are getting phones at around the same time that some of us started gaming. The question is if if the iPhone/iPod Touch has wrecked the "tween market" and they won't pick up anything without "a bunch of apps".

It's all about if the tweens are ignorant enough. (And btw, those testimonials about feeling "disconnected" because they spent ONE WEEKEND without a phone is absolutely sad.)]]>Apr 12th 2010 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/i like tuurtles]]>Apr 12th 2010 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y]]>Apr 12th 2010 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Reactions: http://j.mp/microsoft-kin-opinions]]>Apr 12th 2010 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/
It is always painful and creepy watching M$ executives try so hard to be cool and talk to 'the kids'.

In 2010 does M$ really think 'the kids' want a single purpose phone????

I am surprised this project wasn't killed long ago, no wonder Ballmer didn't turn up .....

PS On a positive note some M$ executives will see this as an opportunity to knife their colleagues in the back and progress up the corporate ladder.
]]>Apr 12th 2010 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/1. I'm not definite as to how far the iPhone/iPod touch has penetrated, but from my point of view, not heavily. Whenever I see someone, I ask a few questions, and ask to see it. The applications are normally free, with a few paid ones. Even on the iPhones, there are still free applications(although, if they(parents) can give their child an iPhone, surely they can spare some money for some apps...)
2. I assume at my school, 4 out of 5 people have a phone with a keyboard (including teachers, smartphones and dumbphones). Text-heavy people(Not sure on email...). I don't see that many Sidekick users, and I only know one person who uses the Facebook utility included, but I do see plenty of people using the Mobile Web version.
3. It is sad to see people to text in class, then get expelled over it(My school district's policy is that if they see it, or they hear it, they can take it. If you don't surrender it to the administration, you go to the hearing officer.), over something as simple as a phone. I hear from my friends who have fights with their parents because they want to text someone. It's ridiculous! I wish that my generation wasn't so TIED to it like it's an umbilical cord.
4.I'm(admittedly and prejudice-ly) technology inclined. I'm a big gadget fan. I have a dumbphone with a keyboard. I get out of contract in September 2011, upon that time, I plan to look for a smartphone. I would possibly buy this, but... mmm... not quite what I'm looking for. Plus, I'm not glued to my Facebook all the time so I don't have much use for the constant updating of status feeds.
I could see people my age buying this, and liking it.]]>Apr 12th 2010 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/
I wonder whether people test does phones in a focus group before they release them to the market.

By only asking 20 people on the street, they would have probably already found out that this design is just hideous ...
]]>Apr 12th 2010 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/idiots here think "tweens" have these phones, i live in the most rich spoiled brat area in the world, orange county on the beach, and tweens dont have anything close, the tweens all have the samsung gravity or something like that, the Smartphones come in at age 14+. Those are teens. NO parent gets their 10-13 yr old a phone with internet, they get them an ipod touch for apps and stuff, that way the child doesnt get addicted to the internet yet. Most of the kids that have the option for a phone with internet also have the option to get a much better phone ( Winphone, iPhone, Android, ETC)! All my friends have iPhone or Andriod, i still have a POS phone cause im locked in a contract, gonna get tthe 4G phone in Nov!]]>Apr 12th 2010 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Well, after all, didn't Hello Kitty save mobile broadband?]]>Apr 13th 2010 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/
http://www.fmintheam.com/audio/CaffeinatedCheerleader.mp3

(this was a great commercial!)]]>Apr 13th 2010 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/what does kin means? is it keep in network. like keep in touch?]]>Apr 14th 2010 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/May 25th 2010 1:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/Apr 12th 2010 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-one-and-kin-two-announced-windows-phone-roots-wit/
So, now we're back to square one, with an average normal phone with some data services. I can hardly contain my enthusiasm. ]]>Apr 12th 2010 1:29PM