We already know that Verizon and Microsoft have pulled the plug on the whole KIN series, the question then becomes what to do about existing supplies?

Word has come that anything and everything KIN gets sent back to…ummm wherever…starting tomorrow. What happens to them is anyone’s guess.

That’s right folks, we may be on the verge of a fabled E.T. game situation for the KIN-they will perhaps be dumped in a big landfill, where 20 years from now, rare NIB KINS will fetch for thousands of dollars on eBay.

The geek inside of us wants to run out and buy one to keep next to our big-head Han Solo action figure; the analyst in us sees Microsoft trying to erase this mistake from history and think that’s OK.

Rather than a cheap Chinese look-alike we finally have a serious competitor to the iPhone. For a normal consumer who is used to Samsung already and thanks to Samsung’s much larger distribution network it looks like some interesting things will happen.

The two look almost identical. But the Galaxy has a bigger screen. Even with the iPhone 4 Retina Display, the Galaxy has a Super Amoled screen, so both seem far sharper and brighter and better than most other screens in the store – but the Galaxy is significantly bigger. Suddenly the Samsung is a very compelling player.

Samsung also has several cheaper phones that it can then sell to those customers who don’t want to pay the price of a top line smartphone.

While we are on Samsung, the first Bada phone, the Wave has passed 1 million unit sales. Thats pretty solid for approximately one quarter worldwide. Its nowhere near Apple’s iPhone 4 selling 1.7 million units in a couple of days, but remember, thats not the right comparison. The comparison is to the original launch, first phone on a new operating system. So the right comparison is to the original iPhone 2G launch of 2007. And 1 million Waves compare rather well in that context – far better than for example Google’s highly visible ‘superphone’ launch of the Nexus One. Thus Bada is already selling better for Samsung than its Symbian and MS Windows Mobile based phones, and looks to be well on target to be about a third of all Samsung smartphones sold in 2010, behind only Android devices.

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A slate of new devices and software is under preparation byResearch in Motion as it looks to keep its Blackberry smartphone from losing more ground to touch-screen devices like Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPad.  A touch-screen smartphone with a slide-out keyboard is worked upon by RIM.

The phone will operate on a new version of the BlackBerry operating system, working much like an iPhone, letting users swipe through screens and expand images with their fingers besides having a universal search bar that lets users scour the entire phone’s data and some data online as well. Experiments are also carried on by RIM on a tablet device to serve as a larger-screen companion to its BlackBerry phone and it will be capable of connecting to cellular networks via a BlackBerry phone.