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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Verizon is planning to close Microsoft's KIN Studio, the backbone of the cloud services for the Kin ...

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.

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 ...