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 integrates ...

Microsoft’s newly announced Kin phones are unusual, and not just because they use the phrase “cranking social to 11” without any evident shame. It’s what’s inside these things that separates them from ...

SAN FRANCISCO--For me, testing a cell phone is about living with the phone. Phones are interesting in demos and videos, but that's not where they get used. They get used at restaurants and on buses, ...

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For as long as Windows Mobile 6.x overstayed its welcome, Microsoft seems to be doing what it can to launch a full-out assault on the mobile battlefield -- first with Windows Phone 7, and now less ...

Microsoft‘s Kin 1 and Kin 2 phones aren’t exactly dumbphones, but they’re not exactly smartphones, either. They’re being marketed as social networking phones for the teen set (you can tell by the way ...