Dept. of Lame
By By Chris Winters November 29, 2010
This article originally appeared in the December 2010 issue of Seattle magazine.
The Kin was supposed to be a social phone, ideal for
Facebooking, Tweeting, etc. Smartphone pricing plans for a dumb phone and
failed hipster marketing doomed it to just 500 units sold before Microsoft
pulled the plug on a product it spent yearsand millionsdeveloping. Lame,
dude.