Microsoft today unveiled the Kin One and Kin Two (as in kindred spirits, and kinship), two phones focused on socially networked kids. Though not smart phones, the phones, which will be sold at Verizon for undisclosed prices sometime in May, have a graphics-rich interface based on the one that runs on Microsoft's Zune HD personal media players (PMP).

The square-shaped Kin One has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 5-megapixel camera with an LED for stills and video, and 4GB of storage. The larger Kin Two is rectangular-shaped, with a wider slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 8GB of storage, and an 8-megapixel camera that can shoot HD-quality video.

Both phones have a home screen, called the KIN Loop, that aggregates feeds from Microsoft and other providers such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Kin users can share pictures, songs, Web pages, etc. with their networked Zune-connected friends by dragging that content to a green dot at the bottom of the screen called the Spot. The Spot provides settings for adjusting sharing preferences. The default search engine, Microsoft's Bing, supports location-based (GPS) searches and mapping.