Six weeks after the U.S. market mobile phones Microsoft Kin was sold less than 10 thousand units. About this newspaper «The New York Times», with reference to a senior Microsoft.
Source publication stated that the operator Verizon Wireless, exclusively distributed phones, do not make enough effort to move the phone. During anonymous visits to salons Verizon Microsoft employees turned out that the sellers do not recommend to buy mobile phones Kin, a proposed instead smartphones based system Google Android.
Kin have been officially released to the market on May 13. They sold for 50 and $ 100 respectively for the model Kin One and Kin Two. However, they can be purchased only with a two-year contract valued at $ 70 a month.
In late June, Verizon reduced the prices of mobile phones doubled without changing the value of the contract, but after a few days it became known that Microsoft closes the project. Already released phones continue to be available in showrooms Verizon, but outside the U.S., including in Russia, Kin officially will not be sold.