Microsoft Kin

The gawky teenage offspring of Windows Phone 7 and the Sidekick comes to Verizon this May. Kin isn't a smartphone. It doesn't run apps; you can't install programs. It's a hyper-connected social networking phone aimed at teenagers, hipsters and Perez Hilton. It's the Zune Phone, come to life, plugged into Facebook and Twitter and... MySpace, pulling all of your friends and feeds into a single stream. It's fundamentally designed to share stuff—photos, videos, whatever—with people in a way that no phone out there comes remotely close to. It's the most seamlessly connected phone on the planet. But it's not for you.

Microsoft Kin

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And here is what Microsoft Kin looks like. The interface is very Moto Blur-like—and a bit sluggish. It's definitely underpowered enough for you to think that the phone is slow, but not so much that it's totally unusable.

The vid above shows a quick tour of the home screen and sharing some information to your social network. The vid below, which is coming in a few minutes, shows more of the experience, like the Zune music playback, searching, sharing and syncing. [Microsoft Kin]