There’s a space in between modern smartphones like the iPhone or Google Nexus One and old fashioned phones that do little more than make phone calls. The T-Mobile Sidekick, for instance, is a ...

With its unveiling of Kin One and Kin Two, Microsoft is courting the younger generation with social networking-oriented mobile devices that just scream, "Hey, look at me and dig what I'm doing now." ...

Hoping to lure the Facebook and Twitter crowds, Microsoft introduced its Kin mobile phones Monday. With hardware built by Sharp, the Kin will come in two models: the Kin One, and a wider, more ...

Microsoft wants younger mobile device users to conduct their social networking chatter and content creation on devices that bear its branding, and it's using the cloud to tie it all together. On ...

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 latest ...

Microsoft has most recently been in the spotlight for catapulting its lagging Bing search engine back into relevance by incorporating a new ChatGPT-based AI called (what else?) Bing Chat. But back in ...

Surprise news: Microsoft killed its not-quite-a-smartphone Kin line after a mere month and a half on store shelves. Inside Microsoft’s Kin Phones: Not a Dumbphone, Not Yet a Smartphone Microsoft's ...

Microsoft's new Kin phones are not truly smartphones, but Verizon Wireless is charging users a minimum monthly $70 service fee -- $30 alone for data -- anyway, over a two-year contract. Microsoft and ...

With hardware built by Sharp, the Kin will come in two models: the Kin One, and a wider, more powerful model called Kin Two. The devices will be sold exclusively in the U.S. by Verizon, starting next ...