Though the pretty lengthy heading above explains it all yet we will have to get down to some details to understand what exactly has happened over here. With the end of upcoming month of January the end of KIN will become a reality. This will affect all (the two to four out there) the KIN customers who will lose the ability to do anything over-the-air.

Though the customers will still be able to send messages, send email and even stream music via Zune Pass but their formally shining�home screens�will freeze. People will end up losing their online repository of photos, videos and contacts though they can be backed up before January 31st.

Though the news might be�disappointing�to many regular KIN users out there yet Verizon thinks that offering a new phone to them might just make them content. As a result Verizon is happy to offer any 3G smartphone by March 31st in return of the surprisingly disappointing news that has suddenly popped in for the regular KIN users.

Does that mean another contract on the shoulders of KIN�customers�under the disguise of the free phone that is being offered?

[via WPCentral]

Though we are not sure regarding the authenticity of this news yet it was exciting enough for us to leave a mention of the same. HTC's EVO Shift 4G has just now leaked into the market with a release date of 9th January. Missing the holiday season by such a small time period does not make any sense to me but I guess HTC somehow didn't want to get lost in the holiday bubble.

The Knight/Shift 4G phone will be a slide out QWERTY keypad smartphone but won't have a front facing camera as can be guessed from the image above. If the image above is true to itself then the HTC EVO Shift 4G phone will have a silver trackpad with the not-so-bulging�keys that might make your life a bit�miserable. We are still waiting for more images to understand the smartphone�completely.

The more or less plastic looking phone in image above might well be just a dummy phone but with related news on different websites we are very sure that the yet-to-be-announced HTC EVO Shift 4G is surely round the corner. We will keep you updated.

[via Phone Arena]

Sounds weird? So it did to me too but the news seems to be true. Science has always thought out of the box to come up with better and improvised technology that will at the end of the day enhance the daily activities of all humans. Thinking on the same lines scientists have been trying hard to attract required tiny particles towards the surface of plates inside the battery.

There have been attempts of using graphene to improve battery performance but using plant eating bacteria for the same purposes is surely touching limits of innovation. People out there in University of Maryland are trying to use Tobacco Mosaic Virus (the so called TMV) so as to generate usable patterns of nano rods on the surface of already existing electrodes.

University of Maryland modified the germ and left it to do what it is best at. The surface was be coated with conductive film which did help in increasing the capacity of the battery by 10 times. Though it might be bit hard (and weird) to understand how a bacteria does its thing�without�the availability of major resources on which it usually�survives�but it just seems to be doing well to increase the capacity of our batteries.

[via Engadget]

Well, nothing much has popped in since the news of Motorola's split into two different organizations which was suppoed to benefit the customers as well as the company on the whole. Though we don't have any important numbers for you to explain the split but we do have a new cover for the upcoming Motorola organization. The new Motorola Logo � and it is all red!

Though a change of color in the current logo won't do much difference for the organization on the whole yet we are pretty much sure that Motorola is all set to give its customers the completely new feel of the upcoming organization.

The colorful logo is surely going to help Motorola Mobility get in touch with its customers who happen to enjoy most of the handheld devices launched by the organization. The Solutions group should be more seriously hell bent into business section of the organization.

We are right now not sure about any other major shuffling that is about to happen within the organization but we are sure that things are happening quiet fast within the organization so as to handle the biggest decision in the history of Motorola.

[via Engadget]