Microsoft today previewed its new phone family, Kin, complete with two models. The Kin, designed by Microsoft and built by Sharp, is aimed at social networking. However, the Kin sports a Zune player, ...

Call me crazy, but something about Microsoft’s Kin phone just doesn’t add up. The Kin, unveiled by Microsoft on Monday, is billed as a mobile phone for the “social generation.” It’s meant to appeal to ...

Microsoft‘s Kin 1 and Kin 2 phones aren’t exactly dumbphones, but they’re not exactly smartphones, either. They’re being marketed as social networking phones for the teen set (you can tell by the way ...

With its Kin line of phones killed, Microsoft has announced that the people who worked on those devices will join the Windows Phone 7 team, incorporating Kin concepts and technology into Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft is going after social communicators with a new class of phone called Kin, which will focus on people who share and communicate through social networks. Two phones, Kin One and Kin Two, will ...

I've seen a few reports this morning around the Web, citing a Verizon database entry, as evidence that Microsoft is going to be christening its Pink phones as "Kin." When I just checked "www.kin.com," ...

The newly released Kin phone is an attempt by Microsoft to kick-start its struggling mobile business. But with the launch, Microsoft seems to have kicked the business, not kick-started it. The latest ...

Interestingly, the Kin and Android have their roots in technology created by the same person, Andy Rubin. Rubin co-founded a company called Danger, which developed the groundbreaking Sidekick phone.

More than just a phone, Kin is a new social experience Microsoft claims, combing online services and the PC for the socially connected consumer. But is it any good? Just when you thought teens had ...

She will express bliss, tonight, when she learns about the debut of a new telephone aimed at people just like her. Microsoft's Kin I and Kin II take dead-aim at the digital natives by making social ...

Hoping to lure the Facebook and Twitter crowds, Microsoft introduced its Kin mobile phones Monday. With hardware built by Sharp, the Kin will come in two models: the Kin One, and a wider, more ...

With hardware built by Sharp, the Kin will come in two models: the Kin One, and a wider, more powerful model called Kin Two. The devices will be sold exclusively in the U.S. by Verizon, starting next ...