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Confirmed: Verizon discontinues Kin

Confirmed: Verizon discontinues Kin

We guess this doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone, but we have confirmation directly from Verizon this morning that it will no longer offer the Kin One or Two. It’s probably pretty difficult to justify continuing to offer and support a product when its maker has already thrown in the towel — never mind the fact that Big Red’s heart never seemed to be in it from the start — so this is more of a formality than anything else. We’re being told that existing owners won’t be impacted, meaning Microsoft will continue to operate the back-end services needed to keep retail Kins alive — but considering how few Kins seem to have been sold, we can’t imagine that’s a money-making proposition for anyone involved, so who knows how long that’ll go on?

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