Microsoft had proudly designed two smartphones (Kin One & Kin Two) targeting the younger lot especially when they are looking for smartphones that aren’t costly. Well, the cost of their smartphones-for-teens did turn out to be cheap but the monthly plans can actually spray water on all their marketing efforts. Verizon is planning to charge $30 per month to its customers who carry Microsoft’s Kin One or Kin Two. Henceforth, teenagers will end up carrying smartphones with basic functions but with monthly cost somewhere equal to Blackberrys.

This is just one more examples which proves how monthly plans that come with different phones can actually skyrocket the original cost of those phones. Companies are smart enough to lure customers with cheap costs of mobile phones and customers later on end up paying huge costs in terms of monthly data packages which washes all the respective marketing efforts for those phones.

Similarly, over here expecting customers to pay $30 for a smartphone which actually isn’t a complete smartphone is totally weird. I don’t understand how come Microsoft approved the deal with Verizon even when Verizon is trying their best to dismantle the future of Kin One & Kin Two? Either Microsoft has given up their idea of selling their smartphone or else they have understood that the concept of incomplete smartphone is a foolish step for today’s teenagers who love to stay ahead during every juncture of life.

[via Mobile Crunch]