Microsoft Kin Review: The Best Mobile Phones You'll Never Buy

Release Date 5 May, 2010 in Gizmodo Australia

 
   

Microsoft KIN Phones Hit Stores Thursday

InformationWeek - Paul McDougall - 5 May, 2010
KIN One and KIN Two, available for Verizon Wireless, feature a bevy of social networking tools. By Paul McDougall New Microsoft phones designed for ...

RPT-Verizon kicks off sales of Microsoft's Kin

Reuters - Sinead Carew, Matthew Lewis - 5 May, 2010
NEW YORK, May 5 (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless will start to sell Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) Kin phones on Thursday as both companies look to do battle with ...

Microsoft Aims for Smartphone Gains With Kin Devices

BusinessWeek - Amy Thomson, Dina Bass - 5 May, 2010
May 5 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. will start selling its Kin mobile phones online tomorrow with Verizon Wireless, ...

Microsoft Kin Phones Great for Messaging, But No iPhone

FOXNews - Clayton Morris - 5 May, 2010
Just when you thought teens had enough ways to connect to Facebook and Myspace, along comes Microsoft with their new line of socially ...

Verizon releasing Microsoft Kin phones online on May 6; pricing starts at $49.99

ZDNet (blog) - Rachel King - 5 May, 2010
Microsoft's Kin One and Kin Two have come a long way from the days when it was just the rumored "Project Pink. ...

Microsoft Kin One: Fun Software, Clunky Design

Washington Post - 5 May, 2010
The smaller of the Microsoft's newest social networking phones, the Kin One ($50 with a two-year contract from Verizon with a mandatory $30/month data plan; ...

Microsoft Kin Phones to Go on Sale Thursday at Verizon

PC World - Dan Nystedt - 5 May, 2010
Microsoft is set to begin competing more directly with Apple in mobile phones when pre-orders of its two new feature phones, Kin One and Kin Two, ...

Want a Kin with Zune Pass? That will be $85 plus taxes each month

ZDNet (blog) - Matthew Miller - 5 May, 2010
Verizon may have killed off the Kin devices before they even get going with standard smartphone data pricing of ...

Kin One (Verizon Wireless)

CNET - 5 May, 2010
The good: The Kin One offers easy access to contacts and social networking sites. The One and its sibling, the Kin Two, are the first Windows phones to ...

Kin One and Two reach out to Generation Upload

San Francisco Chronicle (blog) - 5 May, 2010
Microsoft's cell phone rebound begins today with the release of two new phones aimed at social networking fiends. Kin One and Kin Two are Microsoft's play ...

Microsoft Kin One (Verizon Wireless)

PC Magazine - Sascha Segan - 5 May, 2010
Add PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide RSS feed to your feed reader so that you don't miss another headline! By Sascha Segan The Microsoft Kin One is a ...

Microsoft KIN ONE & KIN TWO available May 6th for $49.99 & $99.99

Gadgetell - Robert Nelson - 5 May, 2010
It looks like the details on the Microsoft KIN ONE and KIN TWO have been made official. ...

Verizon kills any hope the kin had with mandatory $30 data plan…for a ...

Gadgetsteria (blog) - 5 May, 2010
by Mike I'll straight up front, The Microsoft Kin isn't exactly my cup of tea, but for feature phone hopefuls, it packs quite the punch. ...

Verizon misses the point of the Kin, prices it out of its market

MobileCrunch (blog) - Matt Burns - 5 May, 2010
Well, there goes that. The Microsoft Kins seemed like a good system. Online reviews are somewhat alright, at least most say the ...

Kin phones burdened by smartphone plan, harsh reviews

Electronista (blog) - 5 May, 2010
Verizon today stirred controversy by launching Microsoft's Kin phones on its network with high costs. Despite carrying a feature phone OS, both the Kin One ...

Microsoft Kin Two: Unboxing Video and Gallery Of Photos

Product Reviews (blog) - Jamie Pert - 5 May, 2010
So far Microsoft's Kin Two handset has received a mix reaction, as it's a Microsoft device there is no doubt that people will love to hate it, ...

Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two: Verizon Release Date Confirmed

Product Reviews (blog) - Jamie Pert - 5 May, 2010
Earlier on today we showed you an unboxing video of the Microsoft Kin Two smartphone, now we have heard confirmation of a Verizon release for this handset ...

Microsoft Kin One, Kin Two Now Available, Reviews Not that Great

DailyTech - 5 May, 2010
Both of the Kin devices are now available on the Verizon network. Microsoft claims the devices blend phone, online services, and the PC experience into one ...

Verizon Shoots Microsoft In The Foot Over Kin

Information Week (blog) - Eric Zeman - 5 May, 2010
It's time for some math. The Kin One costs $50. The Kin Two costs $100. That's after rebates, with a new two-year agreement. At the cash register, ...

Microsoft Kin Pricing and Availability Detailed, Smartphone Data Plan Required

PhoneNews.com - Humberto Saabedra - 5 May, 2010
Pricing for the Microsoft Kin line of social networking oriented devices has appeared within the myriad of reviews for the device ahead of its official ...

Microsoft Releasing New Smart Phone

WJXT Jacksonville - 5 May, 2010
Microsoft is aiming to regain ground against Apple and Google in the smart phone market. It will start selling its Kin mobile phone online with Verizon ...

Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two coming to Verizon on May 6 for under $100 on ...

Unwired View - 5 May, 2010
By ilinca on 05 May 10 - In Microsoft, Sharp - View Comments That rumor about the launch date of Verizon's Kin One and Kin Two was almost exact: the new ...

Microsoft's Kin 1 and 2 for Sale May 6 for $50 and $100

Phone Scoop - Eric M. Zeman - 5 May, 2010
Verizon Wireless and Microsoft today provided some more information about the release of Microsoft's Kin 1 and 2 phones. Both phones will be available via ...

Microsoft Kin Reviews Appearing: Mixed Impressions

jkOnTheRun (blog) - James Kendrick - 5 May, 2010
Microsoft surprised a lot of folks when it announced its new line of “almost smartphones” aimed at ...

Microsoft Kin One and Two Dismissed

CoolTechZone.com (blog) - Matt Hartley - 5 May, 2010
Sometimes I cannot help but wonder what Microsoft's actual mobile strategy IS these days? The idea behind Windows Phone 7 is fairly straight forward, ...

Microsoft Set to Put Kin On Sale This Thursday?

InternetNews.com - Stuart J. Johnston - 5 May, 2010
Is it show time for Microsoft? Recent reports indicate the software giant is getting ready to make its new Kin smartphone available for purchase this week. ...

Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two

White Hat News - 5 May, 2010
Google has its Nexus One, Microsoft has its Kin. Microsoft has introduced two mobile cousins, developed with Sharp, which will arrive in May in the US and ...

Microsoft announces Kin pricing " oh dear

HEXUS - Scott Bicheno - 5 May, 2010
When we wrote about the launch of Microsoft's first own-branded mobile handset - the Kin - we concluded that the relatively minimal feature set and juvenile ...

Microsoft Kin One, Kin Two " Pre Order From Verizon on Thursday

Social Media SEO - 5 May, 2010
We are about to find out exactly how well Microsoft understands the market with their new Kin One and Kin Two mobile data phones on Thursday when Verizon ...

Microsoft KIN One and Two: Will you Pre-order Tomorrow?

Phones Review - 5 May, 2010
Tomorrow is the day for all you social network lovers who wishes to pre-order the Microsoft KIN One and Two, yes May 6th is the launch day when you can ...

 

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