Comments on: Just 500 Microsoft Kin phones sold claims source http://www.slashgear.com/just-500-microsoft-kin-phones-sold-claims-source-1890502/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Tue, 15 May 2012 21:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: sagar http://www.slashgear.com/just-500-microsoft-kin-phones-sold-claims-source-1890502/#comment-64408 sagar Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:14:37 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=90502#comment-64408 Its not a killer phone..but it has the potential to be one in a nearby period.But it comes with social networking features which they had integrated which others dont have..

1) KIN Studio..all your images contacts and almost everything which belongs to you in your phone..is mirrored with a timeline.. your phone becomes almost your lifeline.
2) KIN Spot.. there is no phone which provides such a feature where you can drag and drop any item to the spot to share..

Like that there are several innovative features in the KIN. There is no phone in the market now which does have these facilities. it has the potential to compete for sure..because the OTA updates which can happen makes it a incremental development platform on the phone an on the cloud. All these applications which is missing can be

integrated into the device just by OTA push and there is Social Networking Service backbone in the background which is also supporting it.

It seems the phone is a gradually gaining traction among yougsters in the market , Even the FaceBook fans are more than .2 million after some weeks of launch. Its very evident that others are little scary about it. There is a rumour campaign in the internet against KIN due to this mainly started by Apple fans. But its evident that they are worried about the Social networking concept Microsoft had intiated and they know very well that any catchup game on this would be costly for Apple or say Google. Now it had reached a state where bad mouth campign is getting counter productive as people are going and trying the device in the Verizon store and getting amazed by seeing the
seemless integration with Social Networking sites and the cloud backup of all the things they had done with there phone, which is something new in this domain.

But if you are one who is interested in buying applications every now and then this phone is not for you atleast now, since I didnt see any link towards Market place. But in future versions they may integrate and you may get the update for that. But if you are one who uses facebook twitter and Instant Messaging like facilities this is

must buy phone for you. Actually some IM facilities they are missing but it seems soon these are coming as updates to these phones.

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