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 ...

Microsoft's Kin phones are back from the dead – sort of. Verizon announced Thursday that it is now offering the Kin ONEm and the Kin TWOm, but the devices are now features phones, not smartphones.

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 ...

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 ...

After an unsuccessful first outing, Microsoft’s second-effort Kin phones are available from Verizon, this time with a different operating system, slightly different pricing options and without their ...

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 ...

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

Microsoft's KIN handsets may have scored a reprieve of sorts at Verizon last month, but it seems the carrier is still on course to shut down most of what made the tweens' smartphones special.