It's no surprise that Microsoft (MSFT) is killing off the Kin, its phone aimed at teens and young adults, less than two months after it debuted.Relying on Microsoft to manage your social life is ...

Microsoft’s new Kin phone sits between two worlds. It isn’t really a smartphone — there’s no access to apps, games, document editing or viewing — but it’s more than a feature phone. It ...

Kin's OS isn't exactly Windows 7 Phone but it's not entirely a new operating system either, Microsoft executives attempted to explain. Call it a fork in the road of Windows Phone 7, ...

But Windows Phone 7 was delayed, and Microsoft didn’t want to delay the launch of the Kin. So instead, Kin was based on the older Microsoft mobile operating system, Windows CE. With all the ...

Microsoft kills the Kin three-month-old social networking phone. It could learn some good lessons from the experience, but won't, because Microsoft doesn't want to change.

News. Microsoft Kills Kin Phone. By Chris Paoli; 07/01/2010; After only two months on the market, Microsoft pulling the plug on its line of social media-friendly phones.

Nvidia’s Tegra APX2600 powers the phone, and while storage is tight at 4 GB for the Kin One and 8 GB for the Kin Two, most of your data gets backed up to the cloud (more on that below). Both ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — For Microsoft, there will be no next of Kin. The company said Wednesday that it will halt the planned rollout of Kin One and Kin Two phones beyond the U.S., less than two months after ...

Microsoft Corp. is ending sales of its Kin mobile phones less than two months after initial products went on sale, in another sign of its struggles in the wireless phone business. The Redmond ...

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 ...