Microsoft Pink To Be Microsoft Kin; No Word On Where The P Went

Can't You Call It The Buscemi?

According to PhoneArena, the Microsoft Pink is the Microsoft Kin.  After buying flailing hiptop maker Danger and then waiting and waiting and waiting, the new name of the long-awaited Microsoft phone is Kin.

Dear Microsoft:

We need to talk.

I like you. Really, I do. I like Windows 7.  I like Microsoft Word. I LURRRRVE my XBox 360.  That said, the imbeciles working in your Marketing Department need a good swift kick to the head.

It’s not hard to come up with a name for your phone.  In fact, the webosphere named it a while ago: The ZunePhone.  Now, Zune is a terrible name (what with it meaning “penis” in Hebrew) but at least with the ZunePhone, you’re not bringing more terrible names into existence.

Let’s look at the names you’re competing with.  First, there is the iPhone.  Didn’t take too much brainpower to come up with but it is a cromulent name.  Then, there’s the Blackberry series, which got its name from RIM’s logo which looked to an executive like a blackberry.  There’s also the “GooglePhone”, the G1, and Droid.  Not really great stretches of imagination but they work for what they are.  Looking back, there were the Treo and the RAZR.  They were also good names.

Kin, to my ear, is not a good name.  It is unrelated to Microsoft or anything Microsoft has on the market and just doesn’t roll off the tongue.  The hard K gets stuck in the ear and the final N just lets the word die.  At least “Kindle” trails off nicely.

Finally, tell your Marketing department that an anagram uses all of the letters.  You can’t just drop the P.

Your new phone OS looks nice.  Don’t screw up the name.  Please.

XOXO

an iPhone user.