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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though the final nail in the Microsoft Kin coffin has yet to be tapped into place, the software that made the pair of ill-fated handsets strangely compelling will soon get the axe. Come January 31st, ...

Microsoft’s KIN phone platform was an interesting experiment. The phones combined aspects of smartphones and standard phones, by letting you access social networking sites, manage media, and perform ...

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 ...