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# KIN + Zune: Microsoft Joins Music Cell Phone Fray
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/kin-zune-microsoft-joins-music-cell-phone-fray/
- Published: 2010-04-13T06:40:11.000Z
- Updated: 2010-04-13T06:40:11.000Z
- Description: Microsoft has jumped into the crowded cell phone market with the KIN – a Windows mobile phone aimed straight at the always on, social networked, music consuming youth market. Expect. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/04/kin-zune-microsoft-joins-music-cell-phone-fray.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:03

[![Zune on KIN TWO_2](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201347fd7287d970c-250wi)](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201347fd7287d970c-popup?ref=hypebot.com) Microsoft has jumped into the crowded cell phone market with the KIN – a Windows mobile phone aimed straight at the always on, social networked, music consuming youth market. Expect a May release via Verizon in the U.S. and Vodaphone in Europe.

The KIN fully integrates the Zune platform for music, video, FM radio and podcasts. With a Zune Pass subscription. users can stream or download from the Zune Marketplace or side-load from their PC. The Zune PC software also offers media synchronization so a personal collection of music, pictures and select films can be purchased once and played via PC, Zune, Xbox LIVE or KIN. 

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