Kin: the new social mobile phone from Microsoft

Holy crap, I think Msoft just hit a homerun. Damn if they haven't made a phone that makes my iPhone look quaint. Seriously well done folks!!

Crappy product design if you ask me, but man o man did they nail the UI. I think this will really resonate with their intended users, i.e. younger people who rely on social media like the rest of us rely on oxygen.
Even the name has me jacked. Kin, like in family or even extended family in a sort of non-touchy-feely way. Connecting people... that's so 20th century. Kin, that not only sounds more social it feels more social.

Now if they just had made a little effort with the product design. The Kin One looks like that creepy Sony thing that nobody bought and the Kin Two looks like your middle of the road HTC offering from 5 years ago.

Sure hope they drop the slider keyboards or at least reinvent them. It kinda ruins the whole experience for me.

The new services on the other hand look awesome. I want to be 20 again!! They make up for the ugly packaging and as such raise the product experience into a 5 star thumbs up!! Can't wait to get my hands on one.

Now as a postscript we will have to wait and see if Microsoft has actually changed it's ways and are really going to go head to head with Apple. Can they launch a global product experience? When will one of these little critters, ahem, Kin be available in Denmark?