New York Times critic David Pogue compared the experience to using a manual typewriter, and found the phone so rife with bugs that he dubbed it the “BlackBerry Dud.” The Storm ditched the iconic BlackBerry physical keyboard for a touchscreen-and when you pressed it, the entire display clicked, as if it were one giant key. In late 2008, however, RIM released the BlackBerry Storm, which grudgingly slathered an iPhone-esque veneer to the classic BlackBerry Experience. When Steve Jobs unveiled the original iPhone in January 2007, Research in Motion-the maker of BlackBerry, and at the time, a smartphone kingpin- didn’t take Apple’s new device all that seriously. The BlackBerry Storm proved the worth of the famous physical keyboard by doing away with it. That puts them in the rarified company of such legends flops as HP’s TouchPad among the most short-lived gadgets of all time.

Upshot: A Verizon exclusive, the Kins lasted only two months on the market before the carrier pulled the plug. Mitigating factor: Kin Studio-a feature which let you get to your phone’s photos and other content from a desktop browser-looked neater than the phones themselves. Even Microsoft’s launch event, held at a San Francisco nightclub, felt halfhearted, as if the company knew it was making a mistake. The problem was that they were ugly, sluggish, rife with troubling design decisions (social posts went out only periodically, not as you created them), and generally unappealing. But the devices, which the company targeted at “the social generation,” did include a mess of features designed for hip young people who loved Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and other networking sites. Actually, the Kins may not have counted as smartphones, since they didn’t have an App Store. In the spring of 2010, Microsoft, which was getting ready to launch an ambitious new smartphone platform called Windows Phone, unaccountably came out with two phones that weren’t based on it. The worst of the worst, in order The Kin Two was the larger of Microsoft’s two social phones, with a wider slide-out keyboard.

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