Microsoft Kin One

  • Cancelled
    110.6, 19.1mm thickness
    Feature phone
    4GB 256MB RAM storage, no card slot
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  • 2.6"
    320x240 pixels
  • 5MP
    480p
  • 256MB RAM
    Nvidia Tegra
  • 1240mAh
    Li-Ion

Microsoft Kin One - Specs

Network Technology GSM / HSPA
2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G bands HSDPA 900 / 2100
Speed HSPA 7.2/2 Mbps
Launch Announced 2010, April
Status Cancelled
Body Dimensions 82.6 x 63.5 x 19.1 mm (3.25 x 2.5 x 0.75 in)
Weight 110.6 (3.88 oz)
Keyboard QWERTY
SIM Mini-SIM
Display Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 2.6 inches, 20.9 cm2 (~39.9% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution 320 x 240 pixels, 4:3 ratio (~154 ppi density)
 

Platform Chipset Nvidia Tegra
CPU 600MHz ARM 11
Memory Card slot No
Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Internal 4GB 256MB RAM
Main Camera Single 5 MP, AF
Features Dual-LED flash
Video 480p@30fps
Selfie camera   No
Sound Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
Comms WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth 2.1, A2DP
GPS Yes, with A-GPS
Radio Stereo FM radio, RDS
USB microUSB 2.0
Features Sensors Accelerometer, proximity
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
Games Yes + downloadable
Java Yes, MIDP 2.1
 MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ player
MP4/WMV/H.264 player
Facebook and Twitter integration
YouTube client
MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer)
Voice memo
Predictive text input
Battery   Removable Li-Ion 1240 mAh battery
Stand-by Up to 200 h
Misc Colors Black
Price About 290 EUR

Microsoft Kin One - User Reviews

  • Because it is a really rare phone and value of it has greatly increased. That's like asking why the Nokia 8110 or Samsung SPH-N270 is really expensive.

  • Why it is so expensive 290EURO !!!!!!!!

  • Does this phone have a MP3 player?

  • BlackBerry ???

  • Just to clarify: it wasn't cancelled, it was just discontinued after 48 days of it's release.

  • Talking to yourself?

  • Ops i did it again

  • Every body yeah Rock your body yeah Basck street back all right yeah

  • I´d love to know new technologies,i would like to buy one like this.

  • ok ok mobil not understand

  • Difficult to handle

  • Ok

  • Where?

  • This phone is whatsapp Support

  • nice ......wow

  • hi this phone is very stylish and awesom.

  • for youth?? nice try grampa! haha..

  • strange

  • I just brought one off eBay whoop whoop

  • veri nice

  • its an irrelevant question. im in belize we do not need those phones

  • what dose the phone not in the market for sale again? i wish belize had these phones

  • this phone seems to be awesome dudes

  • Discontinued means that you cannot buy it. The product was a failure and it's dead.

  • The phone status showing cancelled..so now can I buy this phone or not...please suggest me...?

  • i want this one for xmas. :))

  • where I can buy this phone??

  • is it possible to download snapchat and instagram and other apps

  • yep

  • does it have a sim card slot?

  • This is my first phone my 2 year contract is almost over. This phone takes great pictures. Really easy to txt . Great calling. Battery is ok. Love the music. Every once in a while it goes black,but is easy to fix. GREAT PHONE FOR YOUTH!

  • This phone is frickin awesome the body is nice the interface is sick all in all this is a great smart phone love the price of the phone.

  • i just ordered mine from fastlanewireless.com

  • can i able 2 use tis in india va.....it is haveing sim slot ah....

  • i have had this phone for mabey 2 years and it works great ... i dont use the internet part of the phone.... so not sure about the internet thing but over all its a well constructed phone, one bad thing is that if you want to send a video it has to be sent right after takeing the video ... but overall the phone is pretty cool

  • I just purchased this little phone. For my first Internet Capablity experience, I like it for the price it does most everything I need. No hi-tech. The size is small and I like the size. I would like to be able to find a case for it and maybe some protector of a sort for the face. Thanks

  • Hello, I have this phone. And I DO NOT recommend it. It'll turn off whenever, and the speaker to talk into never works properly. This is my 3rd one I am on, and I am getting another replacement.

  • what a design:-)

  • Hi, I am interested in the phone but where I said to cdma, this is the page I could tell if it is GSM or CDMA pleas

  • is this a smartphone ?.

  • Games Yes + downloadable???????????? How i Can Download Gameeeess???????????????????

  • Is the phone bad? What was the cause?

  • I just ordered this phone. I think that it will be ok. I'm a little concerned about the reviews,some bad and some pretty good. I'm not really interested in the internet, so can anyone tell me how the phone is without internet?? Thanks

  • I want this mobile urgent

  • ok so i have this phone and i have looked on the internet for an deeper explor thing like how to add aps and stuff and i cant find any!! so frustrating all that you get is this fold out thing that barley shows you things you can do on it. helppppp me! i do know it you press the back button and half press the capture button you can take a screen shot and the picture will then be saved in the "camera" app.

  • I have gone through 3 phones in 2 months of this model

  • You can buy it from here

  • this is a very good phone

  • im from Dublin, Ireland but I really want this phone, I was just wondering if anyone knew any sites online where i can legitimately order it and also where to find out how i can unlock it to make it work in Ireland,,is that possible?

  • i got mine completly free and every single attachment that came with it, it is frikkin awesome

  • it doesnt require a data package actually i just ordered it. internet is optional

  • good handset lonched by microsoft.company.

  • good but costly

  • mobile wlan slow

  • it a nice phone

  • its a GSM Phone..

  • Its GSM On 2g network... See it again...

  • @nitish, u need to think twice before you make comment.

  • this phone is CDMA phone and don't support GSM as told in the features list, and has no SIM card Slot too.

  • will see . Good contest with iphone 3g

  • y there is only one color of this set we want yellow that is yellow yellow dirty fellow .. n y the price is too low make it large yaaar........ reply me

  • nice look,good features seems like palmtop. it has all the features of laptop . it can be used as compaq device for computing if it is equipped with the softwares required for office work.

  • looks like its made for aliens

  • nice looking, nice features and nice keypad. after all this is the product of microsoft which is best in the world but i don't know what's the price of it. if the price is less than features i'll purchase it.

  • look like a toys

  • stupid phone.....

  • i've had this phone since may, and i hate it now, i have to call the maufacuterer to tell them my problems with it and i can't get thru 3 times i called today.....if i had only known this phone wasn't gonna sell.....

  • This phone appears in Pretty Little Liars!!!

  • sharp made this phone for microsoft. japanese phone maker just can't get any break in the world market.

  • kin one and two, both of them do not have any games nor they support any third party application installation. the phone requires you to have data connection which alone increases your bill to $70 per month... sad but true.

  • too fanci ,can be stoled

  • actually it does not come with win phone 7 series. nor is is on x86 OS for that matter.

  • In two months, Microsoft sold less than 10.000 phones in the US. There are only CDMA versions of this phone, no GSM ones. Microsoft must have hundreds of thousands of Kins left over in storage :-)

  • microsoft is pulling out the kin phones due to bad sales.

  • it comes with Windows Phone 7 OS. The first x86 based OS platform for cell phones by microsoft

  • Why Microsoft should reales KIN phones Whithout Windows Mobile OS?

  • i hope this is available in the philippines!

  • Microhard... ahem... Microsoft... and mobiles... scary world we live in nowadays...

  • i like it. HOPING FOR 1] It to b available in India asap. 2] The price to b reasonable. 3] Slide to b stronger. 4] After sales Service to b good.

  • The music quality should b awesome..

  • i like it. HOPING FOR 1] It to b available in India asap. 2] The price to b reasonable. 3] Slide to b stronger. 4] After sales Service to b good.

  • i like it. HOPING FOR 1] It to b available in India asap. 2] The price to b reasonable. 3] Slide to b stronger. 4] After sales Service to b good.

  • Awfull looking phone , and the name is stupid ...

  • well...can anybody confirm that whether KIN includes or supports any games or not??? and when it will be available in India and at what price exactly?

  • that's very nice

  • that's very nice

  • i think it's cute. an awkward looking phone. i guess people aren't that open much to designs which makes them only want the usual stuff

  • Some implemendation of WM7 and not the full one

  • Kin 2 Should be at least $475 sim free, and kin 1 approximately $375 unlocked.

  • what's the OS?

  • I think it's a wm7

  • this its a good example of what micro should do ,,,,YEARS AGO... FINALLY THEY DONE IT!!! its a excellent phone for what it takes, price its a bit high but may its gonna drop with demand so its early to define costs. clever design,lacks little in external colors but as we had experience with wm phones,this should fit perfectly in a young-oriented pocked,females will love this phone bcause its shape,and trendi sexy style...

  • It's too expensive for nothing

  • I want to get one!!! It is so CCCCCCCCCuteeee!

  • Too expensive for what it offers.

  • only 4gb and no card slot... oh God, why?? hope it fail.

  • What's the OS?

  • ........mhmm......ok :|

  • PPl say what not about everything. I've seen that whenever it comes to microsoft, PPl love to criticise. when it comes to apple, ppl go over heads and heels, wait for weeks, days in front of to store to get one. I've got both an iPhone 3g and a HTC HD. Both are great in their own terms. Both are great in their own way. I find the iPhone design to be bland but its still a great product. The KIN One design, I'd like to say is great. I'm tired of using and seeeing the same old blocky designs. Actually this ine should have been named the PEBL. PPL are used to the blocky design. Thats why lots of ppl dislike it in the first place.

  • oh my goodness...is this a goofy toy for my 2 yr old son..i doubt he will even look at it. i also think its a joke...tell me so Bill...pleeeaaase!

  • IT SUCKS! Wow, Its like all the companies takin a step forward and this Microsoft takes 3 steps back.......damn some of the Specs are like mandatory to have....damn............HEY! anyone interested in REAL-MODERN-SMART-PHONE there are 2 hittin this summer: * HTC EVO 4G < KICK ASS PHONE * iPhone 4G < Dunno the specs yet, prolly cant catch up with ^htc specs though

  • This looks like a 1990's phone. Who at Microsoft ever approved this phone look and feel in this world of Iphones? Why do I think this is the ugliest phone, I have ever seen? I didn't even bother comparing the specs with other existing phones.

  • huge step back in screen res technology

  • yucky yuck, what a design!!

  • It may be 4GB and 8GB but that is because everything from the phone gets uploaded to the website so you get practically unlimited storage.

  • somehow kin 2 and kin 1 remind me of palm pre and pixi.

  • Only 4GB storage? Too little for today's standards...

  • a minmo 7 phone would be pretty cool to use, a nice user interface. 4gb memory would be quite short. At last lets hope microsoft does the pricing well :p

  • like motorola qa1 :

  • it looks like an alien's mobile phone... :)

  • Interesting form factor. I like it but I think it will take a while to get used to a square instead of a rectangle.

  • i think it looks quite cool, compact and very ergonomic! nice one microsoft but it will be virtually impossible to take over the iphone and its OS 4.0 (not mentioning the new iphone) and then putting that aside android OS has 2nd spot which is another top OS i think this device will sell due to its incredible UI and networking skills microsoft are defiantly aiming at the future market, the younger market, but have they gone too young??

  • motocubo????

  • Very very keen to buy this kin one.

  • i don't think it looks ugly. it just looks extremely weird. especially when it's closed!!

  • ungly face..no chance among giants.

  • i do not like that it has no card slot and i do not like its desgin

  • first... welcome microsoft