The rumors from previously this month had been accurate: Verizon is once more promoting the Microsoft Kin phones.This time around,
Office 2010 Standard, having said that, Verizon is positioning them as feature phones,
Microsoft Office 2010 Sale, not smartphones. Verizon has lowered the cost of the required data strategies for that phones and has additional an “m” onto the names with the devices, as well.The newly rebranded Kin ONEm and Kin TWOm are available on month-to-month,
Windows 7 Ultimate, one-year and two-year contracts. On a two-year contract, the phones are $19.99 and $49.99. Without a yearly contract, the prices with the phones are $119.99 and $219.99, respectively. Data plans are not needed, but are optional. CNET notes that Verizon is offering a $15 per month plan for 150MB or an unlimited plan for $29.99 per month. There is also a $1.99 per MB pay-as-you-go optionIndustry watchers see the re-introduction of the Kins as Verizon;s attempt to unload stock of the devices on which Microsoft pulled the plug in late June — just two months after rolling them out with much fanfare. Microsoft’s decision to use neither Windows Mobile nor Windows Phone OS 7 as the operating system — instead it was a hybrid of sorts of the two — left company watchers scratching their heads. Microsoft’s failure to provide an app store for that devices was another ding. When Verizon introduced the Kins with exorbitantly priced data options, they seemed unlikely to get the kind of uptake Microsoft had hoped.Microsoft nixed the European Kin introduction,
Windows 7 Professional Product Key, folded the Kin team into the Windows Phone 7 unit (but moved them again, according to sources, into the Speech division) and stated the company had decided to focus on Windows Phone 7 as its sole new mobile-phone platform.(An aside: I;ve heard a rumor that Roz Ho, Corporate Vice President of Premium Mobile Experiences — who led the integration with the Danger team and spearheaded the Kin development — has a new job about the Mediaroom IPTV team. I haven;t been able to confirm this officially,
Office Professional 2010 X86, beyond a corporate spokesperson saying that Ho has a new job in the Interactive Entertainment Business unit.)