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what's up everyone John renter from TechnoBuffalo here with a double dose of unboxing for you a two-for-one we're gonna take a look at Microsoft's kin one and king two for Verizon Wireless I have not seen either of these devices so I'm kind of here to see if they look like you sort of straddle a line between smartphone and feature phone I guess you'd call them a smart feature phone they utilize Microsoft's new kin loop and kin spot the loop being operating system which is a way to integrate with all of your social networks and to dynamic tiles and the spot is a way to share information share pictures photos messages with friends and I suppose family as well and I'll give you guys the demonstrations to how all this stuff works but in the meantime let's go ahead and hack on in and do our unboxing I'll go through the specs of each of these and of course we're gonna use the big ol knife and just sort of filling the bag here you can tell me boxes are different they're actually round most of the boxes that I get her free square so this is a much easier package ton box all right it looks like here we have the Kin - kind of interesting packaging looks like some of those carnival peanuts where you pulled out the snake jumps out of there and we have the kin one in white I think there's something else in this bag I think it's the top two that kin two came off I'm gonna put that right back on alright so let's take a look at these two phones let's start with the smaller less expensive kin one and let's talk some specs so they came one both these are available on Verizon Wireless I should mention the King one is going to set you back just about 50 bucks so it would be 149.99 after 2 year contracts then you've gotten on like this down of a hundred bucks so about $50 is going to get you a phone with a 2.6 inch TFT QVGA capacitive touchscreen so that's a lot to sort of absorb essentially it's a two point six inch capacitive touch screen with a resolution of 320 by 240 you are going to get a five megapixel which is actually pretty good four gigs of on-board storage twenty fifty six megabytes of DDR Ram and battery that's gonna last you about two hundred ten hours of standby time and three point I'm sorry three hundred forty minutes of talk time on a package that weighs about three point nine ounces that was a lot of specs it's going to take a look here so this is obviously a very untraditional box sort of our round cylinder is a little bit weird so go ahead and open this thing up it looks like this is still sealed so I can be reviewer number one on this device cut the tape there get the tape here how are you give Microsoft credit for improving their packaging other devices so I'll go ahead and open this or at least try to open it comes off like a cork pull what's out you got some cardboard tab nothing else in there but is green this is very interesting packaging kind of cool like will pull off it's sort of elastic oh I think trying to get this back in a box maybe a monster paint will pull that off I would guess that it probably opens up and it does open up these are previously codenamed I believe the turtle you may have seen this on other sites I'll go ahead and pop that out that is unlike any other phone I have ever seen put that up to the side for just a minute it almost looks like I'll watch like a big fat watch more than a phone love the way we talk designed by Microsoft in Redmond no I'm just kidding uh you turn me on kin all about the kin settings dashboard this does have zoom subscription service integrated so you do get pretty much a zoom player as well a little bit of music with the Zune Pass and products and warranty stuff push it off to the side nobody cares about that let's see what else we gets we have a little wall to USB adapter that's probably Tommy's laying around but that's all that is let's see what else we have here we've got a pair of headphones always a nice increase and the sink and charging cable which is micro USB so would you have a standard and we've got the battery here which is of size I'm gonna guess 1100 milliamp hours based on the specs but let's sing ripped open the package we are of size done - done it is a sharp battery nope I was wrong it is 1240 milliamp hours so it's a pretty decent sized battery for a 3g smartphone let's take a look at the phone itself cuz this thing is super weird it's got that little Ridge on top gentleness fact I mean it is very very small I mean it really does even look like a phone I wonder helps would be to hold up your face does have a slide-out QWERTY keyboard see how this feels keyboard actually has a very nice feel to it the keys are very spaced out generally I'm not the biggest fan of this orientation slider because you don't get a wider Keys but this is not bad if you look at the keys compared to say the Palm Pre Plus you can see that there's much much more spacious here on the Kin than it would be on the palm now the screen is definitely on the small side there has the dedicated smiley button right there if you can see in focus which is kind of neat this sort of the evolution of the sidekick I suppose since Microsoft acquired danger which made the sidekick devices so very very small Windows Phone Verizon sharp it's got sort of a plastic back to it let's see what else we got on the phone so on the left hand side we've got the charging port and I don't know if you can call that the top or not but it looks like the head of the volume rockers up-and-down 3.5 milimeter headset jack I'm guessing that is the lock and power button there's a little thing right there up that pops out that's for the back it looks like we have a hardware button on the side which is probably for the camera let's pop in the battery this thing live on camera and see what this looks like on because I'm very curious about this kin interface so this may be a long video here especially unboxing two of these phones so I'll pop that off throw the battery in and while it is booting up we'll go take a look at the kin to the Keen ones a big brother I gotta tell you I was a little bit skeptical looking at this but the hardware is kind of fun I don't know if I could use this as a daily driver but it's a very unique form factor for a phone that interesting looks like there's also another button right there menu button in the middle of the screen go ahead and turn that on yes I think that's the power button we may not have any set for charge at all in the battery to power icing on it looks like the battery is completely dead so we have to charge it you're gonna have to wait to see what this device looks like for the next video we'll go ahead and push all this stuff off to the side all the Kin oneness and let's take a look at Big Brother dressed in black the kin to so let's talk specs of the kin - it has the same resolution 320 by 240 but it does have a three point four inch screen which is quite nice it's when I set you back just about $100 so $200 on a two-year contract and then $100 of online discounts comes in at four point seven ounces you're going to get about three hundred and sixty five minutes of talk time so you're gonna get about twenty five minutes more of talk time versus the King one and your when you get up to two hundred and thirty two hours of standby time this one has actually eight megabytes of on-board storage and 256 megabytes of RAM and has an 8 megapixel camera which is pretty impressive and these things are both pretty well stocked with chorded keyboard speakerphone GPS and the rest let's go ahead and pull this off when this top was already awesome when it got shipped for the same experience green side black bugs push that off same sort of elastic go ahead and let's go bring up like a coffin oops good things go fixed around here alright so here is the Kin - this one's got a more traditional smartphone feel to it push that off to the side probably got the same sort of books in here I would see you turn me on looks exactly the same but the Zune path and how it works we just saw that in a minute ago we've got the same charger we saw in the king one USB to your wall probably the same slew of accessories as well you've got the headset and the micro USB charger and the battery which is difficult ly larger is of size any guesses maybe thirteen hundred million of hours it's always fun to try and give it the battery life although this plastic is harder to look at so it entertained you and hopefully I don't slice my finger off we're gonna go to the big ol knife to rip this plastic there we go let's see what we got going on here this is battery of size one thousand three hundred ninety million of ours so a bit bigger and that's probably why you get a bit more talk time and it's powering a little bit of a larger screen let's take a look at here so we've got as you just mentioned the three point four inch capacitive touchscreen with QVGA resolution you've got the thing gets upside-down you got the microphone port sir that yes it's a home button of some sort you've got your microphone or speaker rather top on the left side of the device appears to be nothing on the right side it looks like where all the action happens got your volume up and down power button shoulder button under maybe that's the power button perhaps that's a camera button and there is the eight megapixel camera that this thing has which is a pretty powerful camera 3.5 millimeter headset jack and it has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard these buttons are a little bit weird very round I'm not sure what that green button does again I've never even used an idiot keen devices so this is all very new to me it's a pretty simplistic slide-out keyboard really just your standard it's three rows or keys at the fourth row being a monster spacebar and if I don't have dedicated number pad you got to probably at the green button which is a shift and then go to your numbers let's go ahead and pop in the battery for this one see if we can get one of these power on these give you a bit of a sneak preview as to what the device looks like and I was probably hitting the wrong button on the Kin one turn it on would be would be my guess let's see if we can Jimmy out the back of this thing here yeah I tell you sometimes getting these things open as a hard part let's see if one of these other butt on the Kin is the power the key in one I gotta tell you on first blush I'm kind of partial to the way the kin one looks and feels it's just it's very unique the kin two has a more a traditional or smartphone feel to it you know the slide out but this is just it's a tiny with a surprisingly usable keyboard although I'm wondering how usable that screens going to be so we're getting our kin animations here on the Kidd one I was incorrect by saying that that was a power button the big one it's probably the camera shutter button the power button is actually that right shoulder that's probably the lock button as well so I'm like doing this little kin thing here alright that's like that's just its boot up screen change your language I don't think me to do that cancel it's already in English we'll go to English connect the Verizon network so I'm not gonna make you guys watch a list it just calls Verizon lets you know that the phone is activated it's waiting for instructions that's about it but it's a very interesting phone with the really surprisingly spacious keyboard I'll do some hands-on time with both these devices if you're considering the key in one or its big brother the kin two to see which one is right for you so what do you guys think about these kin devices I gotta say overall it without even using them yet I'm impressed the packaging it was a very high-end experience and the phones themselves appear to be relatively high quality although how the operating system works how it integrates with the phone who knows how that's gonna be but for right now it doesn't look half bad much better than I expected so anyway guys I'm John Rhett enger' from TechnoBuffalo for all your tech news we shouldn't check out TechnoBuffalo where you can go and create your own tech sub site monetize it makes a couple bucks and you can integrate and talk to people with our built-in social network and server get all your new tech news anyway I will see you in the next video and for exclusive content check me out at Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers all the information will be down below why right around here and it looks like the king one dumb booty couldn't program the phone anyway John rent your TechnoBuffalo see you the next video buh-bye