Pricing Announced for Kin One and Two


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The red-headed stepchild to Windows Phone 7, the Kin One and Kin Two finally received a release date and price. Both will come to Verizon Wireless’ website on May 6th and brick and mortar stores on the 13th. The Kin One will set you back $50 and the Kin Two $100, after requisite two year contract and $100 mail in rebate. The shocker comes at the requirement of a $29.99/month Smartphone data plan on top of a voice plan.

Many in the industry had hoped that the Kin phones would only need $9.99 feature phone data plan putting it as a top of the line feature phone. Instead it has to compete in the same league as the Motorola Droid, iPhone, HTC HD2 and the Palm Pre Plus (Which costs less than even the Kin One). Hopefully the great social networking integration will be enough to make this more appealing to teenage users than the great lineup of smartphones available both on Verizon and other carriers.

Source: Microsoft


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