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It;s official: Microsoft;s Pink venture is no longer a mystery (and even a partial mystery). The details are out,Cheap Office Professional Plus 2010, plus the identify with the phones, targeted at the teen/twenty-something market, is Kin.There have already been plenty of rumors. But now the specs and real photos are here. There;s a Kin 1 and a Kin Two (”Turtle” and “Pure”). Sharp,Windows 7 Home Premium 64, Verizon and Vodafone are, indeed, the partners. Verizon is going to start offering the first Kins within the U.S. in May and via Vodafone in Germany Europe in “the fall.Now that the Kin cat is out with the bag, here are a few things I found surprising about the devices (after reporting for more than two years on every twist and turn about Pink):one. The Kin phones make use with the “same core elements as Windows Phone 7.” The Kin isn;t a dumbed-down Windows Phone (as we;d been hearing it might be). Kin phones have Exchange connectivity, Zune music/video capabilities and dedicated Bing search buttons, just like Windows Phone 7 phones will. The Kin phones will be the “first Windows Phones that ship with Zune,Microsoft Office 2010 Product Key,” said Kin team members at the launch today. (I asked several team members what the operating system is inside and no 1 was willing to say more than it is Windows Compact Edition-based, just like Windows Phone OS 7.0 is; they wouldn;t talk about version numbers or whether the two phone OSes have more in common than just their CE roots.)2. The Kin team spent “thousands of hours” together with the target audience before they wrote a line of code. This information-gathering venture was part of what was known as “Task Muse” (another codename I had heard and wondered about). Microsoft teams like to pride themselves on doing customer outreach and telemetry, but they interviewed 50,000 (,Windows 7 Ultimate X64!) people,Office 2010 Standard Key, I was told. Planning started back while in the summer of 2007, a year before Microsoft acquired Danger.3. Speaking of Danger — and also the Sidekick — the Kin doesn;t seem much like a Sidekick at all. Yes, a bunch of the Danger folks defected and/or were let go, post acquisition. But calling the Kin “the next-generation Sidekick” isn;t really accurate. I asked whether there were any elements of the Danger OS with the new phones and was told no.4. There are no apps for the Kin. No app market and nothing other than the Kin service which will connect users to their Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Kin Studio (cloud services collection). At least for now, there are no plans to introduce apps for the Kin devices.5. Microsoft kept the Kin name a secret until today. I had a chance to ask Roz Ho, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft;s Premium Mobile Service team as well as the head of the Pink project about the “Kin” name. Like other Microsoft execs, she emphasized the “kinship” connections of Kin. She also said Microsoft considered a great deal of names — possibly as many as a thousand — before deciding on Kin. (She wouldn;t share any with the other names; I asked.) It;s kind of amazing kin.com was available and that no one figured out until today that Pink = Kin.I;ve got some more interesting tidbits about Kin, Pink and other related topics from a conversation I had with Ho coming up in my next post. Stay tuned.