Kin Media Sync for Mac syncs Kin media with Mac
By Vlad Savov 
posted May 13th 2010 3:59AM
posted May 13th 2010 3:59AM
May 12, 2010 12:45 ET
Mark/Space Is Exclusive Provider of Mac Media Sync Software for Microsoft KIN
Microsoft Selected Mark/Space to Develop KIN Media Sync Software to Sync Music, Photos, Videos and Podcasts Between a Mac and the New KIN ONE and KIN TWO Phones
LOS GATOS, CA--(Marketwire - May 12, 2010) - Mark/Space®, creator of award-winning desktop and handheld synchronization software, announced the immediate release of KIN Media Sync for Mac computers. Mark/Space was chosen as the exclusive provider of Mac media sync software for the new KIN ONE and KIN TWO phones from Microsoft. KIN Media Sync uses Mark/Space GoGadget technology to make it easy for KIN owners to connect their phone to a Mac to sync music, video, photos and podcasts.
"We partnered with Microsoft to develop the best Mac media sync software for the new KIN phones," said Brian Scott Toney, Mark/Space Director of Sales and Business Development. "Our media sync capability has been a reliable staple of Mark/Space products for more than a decade. Leveraging our expertise, KIN Media Sync for Mac lets KIN owners fully enjoy the media features of their phones."
With KIN Media Sync, Mac users can sync individual songs or entire albums, genres, artists and playlists of music between a KIN phone and iTunes on their Mac.(1) Photos snapped with a KIN phone can be synced with iPhoto, and albums of photos from iPhoto can be synchronized to a KIN, too. KIN Media Sync also makes it easy to transfer digital video and home movies from a Mac to a KIN. Movies are automatically converted for the best viewing experience on a KIN phone's screen.(1)
The KIN Media Sync project for Microsoft adds to the growing list of recent partnerships Mark/Space has had with a number of device manufacturers, including Nokia and Palm. Mark/Space media synchronization technologies and software are available for Windows and Mac OS X computers.
AVAILABILITY AND PRICING
KIN Media Sync is available for Mac OS X. It can be downloaded free from the Mark/Space web site, at www.markspace.com/kin. Registration is required to receive a registration code and activate the software.
ABOUT MARK/SPACE, INC.
Founded in 1990, Mark/Space, Inc., www.markspace.com, develops and markets award-winning mobile and wireless synchronization software, including Fliq, SyncTogether, GoGadget and The Missing Sync family of products that synchronize Mac and Windows computers with mobile devices and smartphones from Apple, HP, HTC, LG, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Palm, RIM, Samsung, Sony, Sony Ericsson, and others.
(1) KIN phones cannot play music or video protected by iTunes DRM.
KIN is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. iTunes, iPhoto and Mac are registered trademarks of Apple, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Press Contact:
Jackie Macapanpan
Mark/Space, Inc.
Email Contact
408-399-5300 ext. 170
it would be better if it could sync with iTunes but then maybe im asking a bit too much...
@2her0ck
Meh, it's a mediocre feature phone. Who cares?
@2her0ck
woops, didnt see the iTunes and iPhoto syne part...
@akbc
Yes, clearly a featrephone is 'mediocre' when it does everything a smartphone does except run 3rd party apps. Sound like some blind fanboism to me.
@Kamokazi
If Apple released this thing, and marketed it in a way showing what it is supposed to be used for, I wonder if engadget would use the comical 'mediocre' cheap shot with it.
I'm sure it would be praised as filling a gap in cell-phone, smartphone gadget lineups, bringing all social-networking outlets together as one!
@Kamokazi
Everything a smart phone does? Really? It doesn't even have a calendar. A calender!!
@Kamokazi
Yes, it is mediocre. Especially considering my ol Samsung Rant could run third party apps. Along with a lot of other feature phones...
@2her0ck
This hasn't been designed to let shitty developers ruin the system. As long as it fulfills its design, I don't see anything wrong with this. Don't blame MS for your providers damn expensive data plans either.
Watch as MS screws everyone who supports them by releasing a compatible app for the iPhone but not Windows Mobile/Windows Phone for a couple months if they choose to even do that.
@SDreamer Not to be snide, but doesn't releasing the Kin phones at all count as "screwing everyone who supports them"? Or at least absentmindedly flipping them the bird?
It'd be nice if this worked with the Zune as well, but I won't hold my breath.
@Tickers
was gonna say the same...well I wanted to say that it looks to me like we can expect zune mac suport in the near future whicch would be nice. Now if they would only release that nice looking zunehd outside US :D
@nk
agreed about releasing it outside the US, I enjoy my zune hd quite a bit. Would also be nice to see software for mac, but it seems MS states every time that they're asked that there won't be mac zune software. Not that it matters for me, but im sure it would be nice for some people.
Better yet, why even require a computer? You can download music on the device, so if you have a zune pass why not let us go free and just use a wall charger most of the time?
Kin Media Sync for Mac syncs Kin media with Mac - alliteration, assonance, repetition?
Will this work with the Zune?
@pika2000
You want to penetrate your Zune with your Kin...???
Dude... Just pick up your sh*t and move to Redmond if you love MS that much
Mac support summarily dropped in 3...2...1—wait, sorry, I got distracted by my phone that runs third-party software. Did anything change? No? OK.
@Shunnabunich Well as this is a software based solution that accesses a Macs open database files in the same way that Blackberry, Motorola, Nokia and others do it, then that is unlikely.
I guess you must be referring to Palm who couldn't be bothered doing that but decided to spoof device ID's over USB thus breaking the standard.
@hill60 Yeah, but this is Microsoft we're talking about — not even MS themselves, but some third party they told to go do something about those Mac people in case one bought a Kin.
My non-Mac owning ideal of a:
Mac owner; makes as much of more money then I do to be able to afford said Mac, may also hold "style" of their devices high in their priority list.
Kin owner; the opposite of a Mac owner
@Cringer
Sorry, was that supposed to make any sense?
uh... Yeah... Good luck with that whole iTunes/iPhoto thing.
Expect Apple to release an update to specifically break that.
Been there and got the t-shirt.
*/Palm Pre owner
@fr4nk1yn
they did it the apple okay way and creates software to interface with open stuff to do that, unlike palm that spoofed the iPod USB ID and made the pre look like an iPod to the mac...not okay
Release a god damn Mac Zune client already. It's the only thing stopping me from buy one.
See Palm, you could've done it this way and maybe things would have turned out differently…well probably not…
Wot is MS up to... This device looks 'kin useless!
Haha, love that first line. Nicely done!
I used mark space on my old winmo phone. it's a turd. a kludge at best.
So let me get this straight.
You make media syncing software for the Kin to work on the Mac, but not for the Zune 30/80/120/HD 16, 36, 64?
Not amused, MS. Not amused, at all.