Microsoft Nukes Kin Studio, Leaves Users Stranded

[exfileme]

Verizon is offering to replace KIN phones for free.

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[house70]

Not cool, MS....

 

[usfs]

Kins will be buried next to ET in the desert.

 

[g00fysmiley]

^ I have a copy of ET terrible game btu a good collectable ... doubt the kin will be a collectable though

 

[quantum mask]

Who didn't see this coming? really? Well, apparently about 500 people. I knew those were junk when I first saw them on Tom's.

 

[tipoo]

It could have been a great featurephone if it wasn't so misnamaged and didn't have that insane initual contract.

 

[mtyermom]

That's just... wow. The Studio was the whole selling point of the Kin. I don't see how Microsoft can do this to their customers, with not a hint of remorse. Well... really... I'm not surprised... at all. Good on Verizon for going the extra mile for the consumer, creating the walkthroughs for people to retain their media/data and offering a free trade up sans contract renewal. (Obviously it's not all good-will and charity by Verizon, as they stand to profit from pricier smartphone plans, but still good to see something offered to the MS jilted customers)

 

[jhansonxi]

The new Kin - coming soon to a recycling center near you.

 

[commandersozo]

How dare Microsoft cut support for all 8 KIN phones!

 

[Guest]

The worst part about the KIN was that it did NOT work with Windows Me! =(

 

[Caffeinecarl]

The KINs were made with fairly powerful hardware, so if you can hack the software/firmware, they could make decent phones yet, just not as KINs.

Best idea I can come up with is closing the studio the way they plan and pushing an OTA upgrade to kill the whole KIN interface and replace it with WP7 or Android (or if you're REALLY crafty, iOS) designed to work with the KINs' hardware. Make it a bit more useful, rebrand the phones that were already made, and turn lemons into lemonade!

If I had a KIN, this is what I would do.

 

[jalek]

Nothing new, just Microsoft making more loyal customers.

 

[tpi2007]

So, call logs are lost ? Not even available to be downloaded ? There goes the trust these companies are trying to sell to the consumer that the "clod" thing is a good thing.

And wasn't there a news article that stated they has restarted selling these Kin's.. like tow weeks ago ? Microsoft really screwed this one big time!

 

[liveonc]

Sell it to Nokia, or RIM, they want in. Maybe there's something they could use...

 

[megamanx00]

fail

 

[RADIO_ACTIVE]

EPIC FAIL

 

[dogofwars]

Wow, now ask people to trust cloud computing!!!

 

[dogofwars]

Also thinking about cloud computers, they had the Sidekick phone that was cloud base and they also pull the plug on that one if I remember correctly. They will do the same to the rest of their futur products they will pull the plug sooner or later(probably sooner).

 

[ethaniel]

They should "open" the phones and let people have fun installing Android or something. You have Tegras in there, not cheap, generic hardware.

 

[bunz_of_steel]

Micro$oft ...Kin whatev... never bought into their crap. I bet some exec's got bonus money and boosts because it was a grand idea that took off at the table. And wrote off any losses but the higher ups got their Christmas presents untouched.... they suk.