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allenbeck

by allenbeck

the Kin2m has been a great phone on the release from verizon. we have two they were free and there is no data plan attached to these phones.
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it has wifi that we use all the time, great bat life, camera works great, video so so, navigation is a little strange but you get used to it. dont care for microsoft but remember this phone was made by sharp.
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cass

What happens if you try to use apps, not on WiFi, that use data (social...

jdporter18

by jdporter18

for some odd reason people hate the Kin phones. However, when you think about these recently relaunched FEATURE phones. They are amazing.
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8mp camera with 720p video capture. WIFI!! and a basic web browser THAT CAN DO YOUTUBE videos. Since data is not required, its perfect for a teen like me. I have had this phone for less than a week and already I have done some nice HD snowboarding videos and pictures. And I have used the webbrowser at least two times a day for facebook, weather, youtube, etc. I highly reccomend this phone to anyone who wants an HD Picture and video phone as well as wifi with out a data plan.
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cass

I was under the impression that Verizon required a data plan with this phone. Is...

aaronaut

by aaronaut

I guess this is what I get for being adventurous with my device choice, but here i am about a month and a week out and i am completely out of "like"…
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for my KinTwo. done, kaput, over it. a few days ago I got a message informing me of an Exchange update, so i hit "yes" and it updated and promptly removed all of my exchange contacts, and shut off syncing. for 3 days i couldn't get anything to sync, i've gone thru all the troubleshooting with VZW techs 3 times now, i finally got contacts in by exporting my gmail contacts to Live, but that's not a long term solution i refuse to switch email accounts simply because... Read more →
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GB330033

by GB330033

Just a warning to those of you planning to get a KIN, these devices suffer from the same problem as the Zune HD as far as Wi-Fi goes.
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They do not support Enterprise connections, meaning lots of university/corporate-based users are SOL. Hopefully support for those networks is added eventually, but based on the fact that the Zune HD hasn't seen an update for them, I doubt it. On another note, if WP7 has this problem, I will be PISSED.
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aaronaut

yeah i cannot connect to my campus wifi network.

peter

by peter

I know it's been less than a week than launch, but has anyone spotted a KIN ONE or TWO in the wild yet?
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I'm always curious to see how long it takes after a new phone is released before I see someone using one in public. Haven't seen anyone using an HTC Incredible yet, which surprises me a bit, but again, it hasn't been too long since it went on sale.
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aaronaut

i have yet to see a fellow KIN user, but i will echo what some reviewers have...

JasonTsay

by JasonTsay

you know at first i marked both the kin one and kin two as dislike and didnt have them on my list but now that i come back and look at the two from a different…
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angle i have added it to my want list and have "liked" it. this is really not designed to be a smartphone and i get why these devices are designed so differently (i like the two's hardware design a little bit now but the data plan is still bad). to sum up the two is a viable device while the one is way too small and would have to have a pre sized screen to work
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peterto

When I first heard these were announced, I thought these were a pretty great idea....

aaronaut

by aaronaut

So I bought the Kin Two, and I'm not trying to steal Peter's thunder, but seems like there were lots of questions people had about it, so ask away.
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I have every intention of writing a review once i've had this thing for about a week. but if you were like me, you want every morsel of info before you make the purchase. and for reference i owned an iphone for just about 3 years, switched to verizon for the Incredible, was wholy disappointed by the battery life, had no desitre for any of the other phones and decided i'd give this new "social phone" a whirl. so far i am happy with it, i certainly made some compromises getting... Read more →
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fourblades

you know the top part of this device after testing it out at the store slightly...

banodyne

by banodyne

DOA thanks to Verizon. $99.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate with the standard Verizon smartphone plan at $29.99 a month.
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Why would anyone pay a smartphone price and data plan for a device that isn't a full-featured smartphone? If they had been halved this would be a killer. But at this price, you would just choose an iPhone or a Droid if you wanted to stick with Verizon.
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teapower

I think the new classification is a smartphone is if you have to pay 30 bucks for...

derekerdmann

by derekerdmann

So many people are evaluating the KIN devices as if they're in the same league as the iPhone, WP7, or the luxury Android devices. No apps! Small screen!
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It's another mobile OS! The difference is that Microsoft was pretty clear that these were meant to be along the lines the feature phones that most teenagers have, except that it integrates with all of their social interactions online. They look nice, have a slick interface, and seem pretty simple to use. Can it be that Microsoft is giving its users a chance to choose their own experiences, so that they don't have to pay for a smartphone with more functionality than they'll ever... Read more →
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corgan

I agree, derekerdmann: In all honesty the criticism around these phones is weird....

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