Do you remember the Microsoft Kin? It’s okay if you don’t — Microsoft certainly would like for you to forget it ever existed. Kin was a family of phones from Microsoft that launched to much fanfare in ...

Microsoft has posted a new version of a promotional video for their Kin phone, edited to remove the sequence that showed a young man shooting a photo of his chest at a party and e-mailing it to a ...

Microsoft's two newest phones, the Kin One and Kin Two, take aim at the same demographic as the company's earlier Sidekick phones: Text-happy tweens. The phones have a promising new interface that ...

“Does an amped-up Sidekick have a place in 2010? Microsoft hopes to find out with the Kin One and Kin Two.” “Why you can trust Digital Trends – We have a 20-year history of testing, reviewing, and ...

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We have received review units for the KIN One and Two and over the next few days we'll be taking them out for a test drive to see what these new Windows Phones are all about. In the meantime, we put ...

A decade in, Michael Wayne finally has a clear vision of what his company can be. The former Sony Pictures Entertainment executive had been driven by the idea that video would overtake the Internet, ...

And here is what Microsoft Kin looks like. The interface is very Moto Blur-like—and a bit sluggish. It’s definitely underpowered enough for you to think that the ...

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 meant to appeal to ...

Microsoft’s Project Pink—sorry, Kin—in a sentence: It’s the phone I’d beg my mom for if I was 15 again. And didn’t want an iPhone. The gawky teenage offspring of Windows Phone 7 and the Sidekick comes ...