Messaging, social networking and music to the fore... but no apps?
Microsoft's 'Project Pink' has decloaked as a pair of social handsets aimed at teenagers called Kin One and Kin Two.
Unveiled tonight, the phones are made for Microsoft by Sharp, and will be distributed through Verizon Wireless in the US this May, and Vodafone in Europe later in the Autumn.
Both handsets have touchscreens and slide-out keyboards - the difference between them is that Kin Two is larger, has more memory and an eight-megapixel camera (as opposed to the five-megapixel camera on the Kin One).
Microsoft has designed the Kin interface around something called Loop, which pulls in updates from Facebook, MySpace and Twitter and displays them on the homescreen.
There's also something called Kin Spot - a place on the phone into which users can drag photos, videos, text messages, websites and status updates and then share them with friends.
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Zune is a big part of the Kin phones, offering a music and videos store, FM radio and access to Microsoft's Zune Pass subscription service.
There's also a heavy cloud element, with all content being stored in the online Kin Studio, complete with a "personalised digital journal" sorting it all by date.
One think lacking, at least according to Engadget, is apps or an application store. A puzzling omission, although one that could be rectified in a future update.
Kin is a separate product family from Microsoft's Windows Phone 7: it's essentially the successor to Danger's Sidekick.
