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    Microsoft Kin Phones Great for Messaging, But No iPhone

    Just when you thought teens had enough ways to connect to Facebook and Myspace , along comes Microsoft with their new line of socially focused phones the Kin One and the Kin Two.I've spent about 24 hours playing with the more robust Kin Two model and I am surprisingly impressed. On sale today with Verizon, these new teen focused social phones represent a bold step for Microsoft in both price and design. They cost $49 and $99.These phones don't have the one feature we've come to expect in a snazzy head-turning mobile device: An App Store. In fact there are really no apps at all. The beautiful interface is designed to look like one big social networking app.Microsoft is betting that teens are going to find everything they need in this phone. After all, no teens I know are reading PDF's or keeping up with family finances using a Mint application. In fairness, I don't know any teens. (God I'm old.) But I do know that teens love Facebook and social networking is the point of this phone.The ...

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