Microsoft has stopped R & D of kin mobile phones and switched to Windows Phone 7.

In July 1, Microsoft decided not to continue developing kin mobile phones for social network users due to poor sales, according to foreign media reports, but focused on its own Windows Phone 7 mobile phone.

Kin mobile phones will not be listed in Europe as planned, because Microsoft is shifting the focus of the team's employees to the Windows Phone 7 smartphone operating system planned to be launched later this year. Andy Lees, head of mobile phone R & D at Microsoft, announced the move to Microsoft employees on Wednesday morning.

Microsoft confirmed the move in a statement to Cent. Microsoft said that we have decided to focus on Windows Phone 7, and we will not launch kin phones in Europe this fall as planned. In addition, we integrate the kin team and the Windows Phone 7 team to apply the valuable ideas and technologies of the kin mobile phone to the Windows Phone phone in the future. We will continue to work with Verizon to sell the current kin mobile phone in the United States.

The Kin mobile phone that Microsoft released in san francisco two months ago was the result of Microsoft's years of R & D and the acquisition of danger. However, despite the innovative features of such mobile phones, it is still criticized that kin mobile phones lack some functions, such as calendar functions, in addition, he criticized the monthly service fee of the mobile phone for being more expensive than that of smartphones with more powerful functions such as iPhone and Android phones.

With the decision made by Microsoft, it is unclear whether Microsoft will provide software upgrades for such mobile phones, including software upgrades planned to be provided this summer. Verizon cut prices for two kin phones by 50% over the weekend.

Ken Dulaney, analyst at Gartner, said: "The sales of kin mobile phones are not optimistic, so for Microsoft, the best way is to give up the business, instead of continuing to suffer." Duleni also believes that Verizon Wireless has hardly made any advertisement for kin mobile phones.

Kin one is a touch screen mobile phone with a square slide design. It has 256 mb ram space and 4 GB storage space, a built-in 5 million pixel camera, and supports auto focus and dual-led flash. Kin two is a slightly larger square sliding cover touch screen mobile phone. The camera is upgraded to 8 million pixels, and the body storage space is increased to 8 GB, in other aspects, CDMA, evdo, Bluetooth, and WiFi are the same as kin one. Kin one and kin two are both manufactured by sharp and exclusively sold by Verizon Wireless. That is, consumers can only purchase them through a service contract with Verizon Wireless.

Insiders pointed out that Verizon Wireless had previously lowered the price of kin mobile phones, mainly because the sales of the mobile phone could not satisfy the company. Sales of the two kin mobile phones can only be described as "miserable", because sales of only 500 mobile phones have been listed.
In stark contrast to the fact that kin mobile phones are unattended in the market, Apple's iPhone 4 sales volume has exceeded 1.7 million in three days. So far, Microsoft has not disclosed the sales data of kin mobile phones.