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A throwback of the ill-fated and commercially disastrous Kin One.
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Kin was a short-lived mobile phone line from Microsoft designed for users of social networking.Microsoft described the phones' target demographic as men and women between ages 15 and 30.It was manufactured by Sharp Corporation and sold through Verizon Wireless.
Microsoft invested two years and about US$1 billion developing the Kin platform,beginning with their acquisition of Danger Incorporated The Kin was based on Windows CE.
The Kin ONE and TWO went on the market on May 14, 2010. Within two months, Verizon stopped selling the phones because of poor sales. Microsoft scrapped its planned European release, stopped promoting the devices, ceased production, and reassigned the Kin development team to other projects.
Microsoft updated its unsold Kin inventory with firmware that removed their social and web-based features, and in December 2010 offered these re-purposed units through Verizon stores as limited feature phones, the Kin ONEm and the TWOm. In January 2011, Microsoft shut down the kin.com website, which controlled most of the earlier phones' features.
The Kin project was first known by the codename Project Pink, and began under direction of Microsoft executive J Allard.
600MHz ARM 11 Nvidia Tegra processor
2.6-Inch TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Internal 4 GB storage, 256MB RAM
5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED flash
Built-in Zune player
Geo-tagging, face and smile detection
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP
Up to 200 hours of standby time
82.6 x 63.5 x 19.1 mm (3.25 x 2.5 x 0.75 in) 110.6 (3.88 oz)