It had long been rumoured that Microsoft was looking to get into the mobile phone market, with the supposed ‘Project Pink’ being the inaugural two handsets it launches. Well, all those reports have turned out to be true as the company yesterday unveiled the kin series of ‘social phones’.Both the phones are manufactured by Sharp and are intended at a younger audience, or those for whom social networking with the phone is more important than business-related productivity.
The Kin One is the entry-level handset that rocks a touchscreen (presumably capacitive, since MS says it’s easy to navigate with your thumb) that slides up to reveal a compact QWERTY keyboard, which Microsoft says can be used with even one hand. It comes with a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and standard video recording, 4GB of memory and a mono speaker.
The Kin Two sports a wider touchscreen with also a wider QWERTY keyboard for comfortable two-handed texting. The specs receive a bump here, as the camera gets upgraded to an 8-megapixel affair that can shoot HD video; the memory doubles to 8GB; and stereo speakers promise to let you do away with the headphones.
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