@Widgetech Synergy is a consolidator of social media PIM (personal information management), not of social media content (messages, etc.). If you've never used it, it may be a hard concept to grasp, but it's genius.
@Widgetech Um you idiot! How many times am I going to have to see people comparing these phones to SMARTphones??? The whole idea behind this platform is to create multimedia phones that ARE NOT SMARTPHONES! If you look at Verizon's multimedia phone lineup, which you probably have no idea about b/c you're too caught up with the smartphones, you will notice that the best selling phones are the enV3, enV Touch, Rouge, and maybe the Chocolate Touch. These phone are messaging centered and are cheap. That is the idea behind the Kin....messaging/multimedia centered...but still cheap! Verizon's multimedia phones only require a $10/month data plan....a savings of $480 over the duration of the phone's contract when compared to the $30/month charge for smartphones, which these would have fallen into had apps and ,useless for non-smartphone owners, calendars. Take a little time and look at the sales numbers for those multimedia phones and you'll see what Microsoft can expect with the Kin.....hint much more than if these were smartphones!
@weg This is exactly what's happening - the evolution of the dumbphone. Sure, no email or calendar, but who cares? Kids don't communicate through email, they do it through texting, IM & Facebook - they sure as hell don't call anymore either. It sounds like Microsoft has done their research - this will be the kind of thing, if priced right, that kids will love. Their older siblings and parents won't understand, and eventually, they'll grow out of it - but there's something refreshing about the simplicity.
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Consolidate your social networks? In addition to BLUR, wasn't that Palm's Synergy thing?
@Widgetech no.
@Widgetech Synergy is a consolidator of social media PIM (personal information management), not of social media content (messages, etc.). If you've never used it, it may be a hard concept to grasp, but it's genius.
@Widgetech I think the INQ1 started it..
@Widgetech Um you idiot! How many times am I going to have to see people comparing these phones to SMARTphones??? The whole idea behind this platform is to create multimedia phones that ARE NOT SMARTPHONES! If you look at Verizon's multimedia phone lineup, which you probably have no idea about b/c you're too caught up with the smartphones, you will notice that the best selling phones are the enV3, enV Touch, Rouge, and maybe the Chocolate Touch. These phone are messaging centered and are cheap. That is the idea behind the Kin....messaging/multimedia centered...but still cheap! Verizon's multimedia phones only require a $10/month data plan....a savings of $480 over the duration of the phone's contract when compared to the $30/month charge for smartphones, which these would have fallen into had apps and ,useless for non-smartphone owners, calendars. Take a little time and look at the sales numbers for those multimedia phones and you'll see what Microsoft can expect with the Kin.....hint much more than if these were smartphones!
@weg This is exactly what's happening - the evolution of the dumbphone. Sure, no email or calendar, but who cares? Kids don't communicate through email, they do it through texting, IM & Facebook - they sure as hell don't call anymore either. It sounds like Microsoft has done their research - this will be the kind of thing, if priced right, that kids will love. Their older siblings and parents won't understand, and eventually, they'll grow out of it - but there's something refreshing about the simplicity.
@alexlipford
Okay, so basically the Kin is a POS that I don't want. Got it.