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Dell Inspiron Mini Series
“Small screen, big first love: it fit the whole internet in a bag.”
“Two years, a billion dollars, forty-eight days on the shelf — gone too soon, loved anyway.”
The Kin was Microsoft's 2010 line of phones, built by Sharp and sold through Verizon, aimed squarely at 15-to-30-year-olds who lived on social networking. Born from Microsoft's acquisition of Danger Incorporated — the folks behind the beloved T-Mobile Sidekick — it ran on a Windows CE-based OS after two years and roughly a billion dollars of development. The Kin ONE and TWO arrived on May 14, 2010, sleek little socia
The romance lasted about six weeks: poor sales pushed Verizon to stop selling them within two months, Microsoft cancelled the European launch, ceased production, and reassigned the Kin team. In a strange afterlife, unsold units were stripped of their social and web features by firmware and resold in December 2010 as the humble Kin ONEm and TWOm feature phones, the latter lasting until August 2011. Stragglers lingered
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“Small screen, big first love: it fit the whole internet in a bag.”
“It saw you wave. It never needed a controller. Rest easy, Project Natal.”
“Where our desktops learned to wear their hearts as gadgets.”