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pm EDT, Mon April 12, 2010  Kin One and Two reach Verizon in May
Microsoft today took the wraps from Kin, its first self-branded
phone line. The series focuses on social networking and centers
on the Kin Loop, a home screen that shows Facebook, MySpace,
Twitter and Microsoft services. Contacts can be favorited and
will take the lead in all parts of the phone UI depending on how
often they're used.  Sharing is equally important and revolves
around the Kin Spot, a sharing hub that lets users merge media
from different sources: they can share websites, media, messages
and location info at the same time without having to go to
separate apps.  It promises a web sharing component known as the
Kin Studio. The portal not only serves as a backup in case
contacts, media and messages are lost but also as a Flickr-style
way of sharing photos and videos with friends. It automatically
populates a journal that can attach all sources of info together
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