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"  On Monday, Microsoft announced the Kin One and Kin Two (see the specs for each below), marking its first foray into smartphone hardware. These touch screen, slider phones will be available in May for Verizon customers. Should you run out and buy one? Yes, if you post on Facebook every five minutes or so. The Kins represent a marked departure from the current trendin smartphones towards greater power, larger screens, increased apps, and more features. Microsoft deliberately shied away from bells and whistles to create a clean and simple device with one clear purpose: to give you an immersive social networking experience, that is if you are what Microsoft calls a &amp;quot;lifecaster,&amp;quot; a 15- to 30-year-old who lives and breathes social connections. &amp;quot;Loop,&amp;quot; its main feature, gathers contacts and feeds from Facebook, Twitter, My Space, and Windows Live and allows you to upload photos to all of these sites (with the exception of Twitter). There&amp;#039;s a companion Kin Studio website where you can view your posts or tweets or see your photos geotagged on a Bing Map. While I get the beauty of their simplicity, to me, these phones lack everything that makes a smartphone &amp;quot;smart.&amp;quot; There&amp;#039;s no calendar, instant messaging, or apps, and feeds are only updated automatically every 15 minutes\u2014a century if you live on Twitter.  Kin One: 4GB memory, 5MP cameram 2.6&amp;quot; display Kin Two: 8GB memory, 8MP camera, 3.6&amp;quot; display "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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