Should the Microsoft Kin be Taken Seriously?

"Apparently the Kin is intimately connected to the net through something called the Studio, which is basically an online backup for absolutely everything you do on the phone. Texts, emails, photos, contacts, all of it end up in the Studio and displayed in a glorious collage for your viewing pleasure. Does this disturb anyone else? Seriously, a place where everything you do on your phone is plastered up on screen?"<p>I'm sorry but if you're on a site called "bigtimewireless" and you're posting a phone review (of sorts) you should at least be knowledgeable enough to be familiar with that phone's immediate predecessor. It's not like the Sidekick's popularity was that long ago.<p>In fact, it was less than a year ago (Oct. '09) when a big controversy in the online world was Sidekick losing the very online data that this reviewer is treating like it's a brand new thing

If they're cheap enough for kids/teens they'll probably dig them.

The cost of devices themselves are so heavily subsidized by the carriers, that unless the data plan was significantly cheaper than a full smartphone, I would have a hard time seeing the Kins finding a niche to fit in above regular phones.<p>What finally convinced me to get a smartphone was that I was essentially paying for it anyway over the term of the contract just to access trivial amounts of data on a device that could barely display it.

No. It shouldn't.<p>Yes it may make money, but who honestly believes this is a contender in this brave new world of smartphones? There's nothing exceptional about the phone at all. And it would take something exceptional to break into the market.