Sullivan said customers will get used to that monthly charge. That kind of backup will lead to plenty of Internet usage that Verizon is trying to cover with the $70 fee, some critics have pointed out. Raney said the Kins’ biggest feature is backing up video files, photos and other data in the Kin Studio cloud, which is accessible with a Microsoft Silverlight-capable PC or Mac. She said she has seen the critics’ comments about the service plan costing too much, but said Verizon has seen many users already paying the $70 monthly smartphone plan for different devices. to be a full service device the person whose life is about networking.” “We’re introducing a new category that’s not exactly a smartphone and certainly more than a high-end feature phone - a social or cloud phone - with a rich browsing experience and rich multimedia social networking where everything I do on the phone is automatically backed up in the Kin Studio ,” Sullivan said.īrenda Raney, a spokeswoman for Verizon, said that the Kin phones were “designed. Microsoft and Verizon view the Kin Windows phones as a new category of social networking phone, somewhere between a smartphone and a high-end feature phone. Negative comments have flowed from bloggers and reviewers. “Over the longer term, we’ll be merging platforms and having downloadable apps,” said Greg Sullivan, senior product manager with Microsoft’s mobile communications unit.Ĭritics have drubbed the new the new Kin phones for charging mostly younger users a $70 monthly minimum smartphone service fee over two years. Neither phone has the ability to download applications and games - taking it out of the realm of most smartphones - but Microsoft said it plans to allow app downloads in a future version as services are merged with upcoming Windows Phone 7 devices. Microsoft and Verizon representatives defended the fee on Tuesday, partly because of the Kins’ automatic cloud-based backup of video, pictures and other data.
Microsoft’s new Kin phones are not truly smartphones, but Verizon Wireless is charging users a minimum monthly $70 service fee - $30 alone for data - anyway, over a two-year contract.
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