Back when the Kin kicked the bucket almost immediately after it launched, we were pretty bummed. Not because either of the Kin-branded phones were particularly good, mind you — but because there was ...

Verizon recently sent a letter to customers explaining that, come January 31, Kin Studio will no longer exist. They are offering users of the Kin One and Kin Two free replacement 3G phones of their ...

Amazon's announcement of its Cloud Drive music-storage service for got me thinking again about the kinds of cloud add-ons that Microsoft may be prepping for Windows Phone 7. Last we heard, even though ...

We thought it was weird that Verizon oddly resurrected Kin after Microsoft killed it. It doesn’t matter anymore because on January 31, 2011, Microsoft’s Kin Studio, the cloud that the Kin relies on to ...

There's no denying that Microsoft's new Kin phones are a next-gen riff on the Sidekick, and just like the Sidekick, everything that happens on the phone will be backed up to a Microsoft service, ...

Microsoft’s new KIN phones aren’t really for me. The company’s attempts at an “edgy” kickoff for the new brand—gratuitous use of slang, a video with a kid making fun of fat people, talk of the ...

Microsoft says its new KIN Windows phone has been designed specifically for people who are actively navigating their social lives – and let’s face it, who isn’t? The software giant has partnered with ...

If you read many reviews of the Kin One and Two, you may have noticed that the one feature that was universally praised was the syncing software, Kin Studio. Today, I understand why that is. The folks ...

The Microsoft Kin ONEm is Microsoft's update to the poorly conceived Kin One. Although the phone remains largely the same, its price has been cut significantly, along with some of its key features.

For as long as Windows Mobile 6.x overstayed its welcome, Microsoft seems to be doing what it can to launch a full-out assault on the mobile battlefield -- first with Windows Phone 7, and now less ...

The smaller of the Microsoft’s newest social networking phones, the Kin One (Verizon, pricing TBA) has a slick and intuitive user interface, but the hardware is mediocre and unattractive. Additionally ...

With a better design and stronger specs, the Kin Two (Verizon; price TBA) outshines its sibling, the Kin One. But it isn’t perfect: Limitations and omissions within the software keep it from being a ...