Wish these phones would arrive on our shores.....soon
Turns out all the leaked photos of Microsoft's "Project Pink" phones were real. Targeted squarely at young "social" chatters looking to share their every waking moment with the world, the Kin One and Kin Two boast slide-out QWERTY keypads, Zune media players, multi-touch displays, and more social networking tools than you could shake a stick at. No app store, though.
Set for release in the "beginning" of May in the US exclusively on Verizon Wireless (no pricing details or exact release dates yet), the Kin One and Two look like a combination of the T-Mobile's old Sidekick sliders (which were developed by a company now owned by Microsoft) and Motorola's new Motoblur service, which pushes an endless stream of Twitter, Facebook, Windows Live, and MySpace updates to Moto's Android phones.
While the two new Kins run on an OS that's based on the "same core elements" as Windows Phone 7, they're not actually Windows Phone 7 handsets; instead, they're both powered by a custom, pared-down OS that emphasizes social networking, music, and content sharing.
