Verizon Freezes Microsoft Kin Sales; Returns Remaining Stock

If you are still for some reason harboring a desire for a Microsoft KIN, you might want to act fast. According to sources speaking to WMExperts, Verizon is freezing sales and sending back all remaining stock, which they have started doing on July 18th. Having axed the feature-phone project - targeted at a "Generation Upload" teen market that didn't seem particularly inclined to either give up their regular "adult" smartphones. It looks like Microsoft is now gathering up the unwanted leftover products.

If you still see the KIN being something you would like to use or have a soft spot for the dinky form-factor of the KIN One - then you should probably head down to your nearest Verizon store first thing and catch them before the workers get busy with the packing tape. Checking Verizon's own site shows the listings for the two handsets as being "present" but clicking on them prompts that neither is "available at this time," so you may or may not be able to catch it in time.