@FrankTheCrank This is GREAT news for someone like me.
Read: Someone who uses his cell phone regularly, but cannot justify $30 extra each month on a data plan. Feature phones are a HUGE market, and most people want something better than what's out there but don't want an overfeatured hulking smartphone.
MS are following all the right companies' wrong strategies... First no multitasking on WP7 (aka iphone), now they are going to fragment WP7 (aka Android) by introducing another brand of Mobile OS?? To top it off, they release crappy devices like Kin One/Two??
Being one of the last players to jump into the socially connected mobile devices game, MS had a huge opportunity to take what everyone's being doing wrong and make one well-rounded OS/device. But...
Btw, check out "Highlights" video at kin.com and about half way through the video, an asian guy (I think) takes a picture of his man-boobs and sends it to a girl. Or is that a girl taking pics of her boobs?? Oh Microsoft!!
Not every phone has to have all the features of a high-tech smartphone. I see this doing decent considering social networking doesnt seem to be going anywhere and kids are starting to get phones earlier and earlier. What does a 13 year old need tethering for?
Their approach seems very different than Androids. They're not gonna have a bunch of different versions out their running for no reason. They'll have their feature phones for the younger generation, and their smartphones for those who want more. You guys act like mobile phone sales have peaked. They're not even close. And complaints about lack of multitasking are just ignorant, WP7 has multitasking that will work perfectly fine.
@sharms what? fragmentation doesnt matter for this at all, no 3rd party apps on this so who cares? Not like developers have to worry about developing different apps for it with no marketplace.... your just looking for something to cry about.
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Nothing spectacular here.
Wow, what a let down. No tethering? I guess some were overly optimistic that someone as big as Microsoft could push the carriers into allowing this.
So, now we're back to square one, with an average normal phone with some data services. I can hardly contain my enthusiasm.
@FrankTheCrank No tethering? It's a featurephone, amigo. Can you tether with the HTC Smart?
@FrankTheCrank This is GREAT news for someone like me.
Read: Someone who uses his cell phone regularly, but cannot justify $30 extra each month on a data plan. Feature phones are a HUGE market, and most people want something better than what's out there but don't want an overfeatured hulking smartphone.
Thanks Microsoft/Verizon!
@zeroinfinity2
I hope the designers gave their Next of Kin when they were tasked with the job.
@zeroinfinity2
MS are following all the right companies' wrong strategies... First no multitasking on WP7 (aka iphone), now they are going to fragment WP7 (aka Android) by introducing another brand of Mobile OS?? To top it off, they release crappy devices like Kin One/Two??
Being one of the last players to jump into the socially connected mobile devices game, MS had a huge opportunity to take what everyone's being doing wrong and make one well-rounded OS/device. But...
@sharms
Btw, check out "Highlights" video at kin.com and about half way through the video, an asian guy (I think) takes a picture of his man-boobs and sends it to a girl. Or is that a girl taking pics of her boobs?? Oh Microsoft!!
@N900
I was able to tether with my clamshell sprint "multimedia" phone a few years back. Just sayin'.
@All Of You
Not every phone has to have all the features of a high-tech smartphone. I see this doing decent considering social networking doesnt seem to be going anywhere and kids are starting to get phones earlier and earlier. What does a 13 year old need tethering for?
Their approach seems very different than Androids. They're not gonna have a bunch of different versions out their running for no reason. They'll have their feature phones for the younger generation, and their smartphones for those who want more. You guys act like mobile phone sales have peaked. They're not even close. And complaints about lack of multitasking are just ignorant, WP7 has multitasking that will work perfectly fine.
@sharms what? fragmentation doesnt matter for this at all, no 3rd party apps on this so who cares? Not like developers have to worry about developing different apps for it with no marketplace.... your just looking for something to cry about.
@zeroinfinity2
Hey, if I were a tween, I'd be all over these.
@sharms That's not the bad part, wait till that ad releases as a commercial in Belgium, and they change the Asian guy's face into a white guy's face.
@Tommy Five
u must be one of those corporate co**suckers.