Kin One and Two: Available in the UK this autumn on Vodafone

Move over BlackBerry, there's a new youth-friendly messenger phone in town and it's called the Kin - well, the Kin One and Two to be precise. Keen to impress the kids, Microsoft and Sharp have created a bunch of phones packed full of social networking goodness, Qwerty keypads and capacitive touchscreens.

The Kin One is smaller than the Kin Two and features a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and 4GB of memory. The Kin Two boasts a larger keypad and touchscreen, 8GB of memory and an 8-megapixel camera (also with LED flash) that can shoot HD video. The video below is from Microsoft.

Both Kins run a Windows Phone 7 variant and allow users to save and share content easily. From what we can see Microsoft has created some interesting services: Kin Loop brings together feeds from Facebook, MySpace and Twitter in one place. Kin Spot allows you to drag content such as pictures and video to 'the Spot' and then share it with friends. Kin Studio automatically backs up your texts, call history, photos, videos and contacts, and dumps them online so that you can access/share it on the internet.

Microsoft has also added Zune experience - music, video, FM radio and podcast playback - and a Zune Pass subscription, which combined with Zune software on a PC will allow you to listen to songs from Zune Marketplace on your Kin. Click on the next page for more info and pictures.

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