Microsoft's Kin Trying to catch the mobile social networking wave.

With the release of Kin One and Kin Two Microsoft seeks to ride the mobile networking social wave. Unlike other phones that treats Twitter and Facebook as separate applications. Kin has at it's heart social networking. Seeking to keep the phone a hit between the age group of 15 to 30 which the company refers to as "Generation Upload" Microsoft unveils more of the project pink details. The Operating System that the company uses for Kin is called OS for Kin a derivative from Windows Phone 7. The Kin will have Verizon as it's exclusive mobile carrier in the US.

The Kin's seriousness about social networking is very apparent in the devices which focus more on Texting, Tweets and Status updates.

There is however no room for additional App's such as the iPhone and the BlackBerry. The Kin will be available sometime in May. Both models of the Kin will have Zune HD built into the device and users can sync the device to their PC to add music and movies onto Kin's internal storage.

The Kin can tap into Myspace, Facebook, Twitter and Windows live.

With a piece of code available on the Kin you can transfer music and photos from iTunes and iPhoto onto a Kin device. This will not work with music that has Apple's digital rights protection management system on it.

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Zune HD Twitter App is now Live. Tweet now to win prizes

Found on Zune's Twitter post. The Zune HD is here. Now the Zune faithful will be able to Tweet in Glorious HD thanks to Microsoft. The free app is now available via Zune software over a wireless connection. Unfortunately thought the Facebook updates will still need to be done the old fashion way.

 There is also the sweepstakes. What you need to do is to follow @Zune on twitter so that they'd be able to Dm you if you win. So go ahead Tweet from your Zune HD and win prizes. If you don't have a Zune borrow one from your friend and go ahead and Tweet

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