Microsoft's new breed of smartphone
Kin One and Kin Two will compete directly with Apple's iPhone and Google's Nexus One with a focus on social networking.
Microsoft have launched their own smartphone product into the market, showing a focus for their own hardware as opposed to the previous focus on software.
Sharp Corp are expected to be manufacturing the Kin One and Kin Two phones with the latest version of Windows Mobile.
The phone, of course, will feature the usual functions adopted by smartphone such as cameras, touch screen and a slide-out keyboard for easier messaging.
Where things get a little innovative is the ease of which users can access their social networking sites from a location on the main screen. Using a feature called 'Kin Loop' social network users are able to change status, drag videos, photos and other items to a single location to be shared on the web.
Microsoft commented further by saying that "...there's a segment here that we can really go after deeply".
"And once you decide to go deep, you can't go part way and say we'll do the software and then we'll hand it off to somebody else. You have to really be involved in the whole process."
These new smartphones are set to be launched in the US in May.
