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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Project Muse for the KIN [Watch (HLS stream): Project Muse for the KIN](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/IQrvM3tN.m3u8) (2:00)  _Published 2010-05-04. Exclusive behind the scenes look at the making of KIN, Microsoft's new touch screen cell phone for social networking._ --- Jul 27, 2023 2:14 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Everything We Think We'll See At Microsoft's Tuesday Event](/video/KJjIP6TE/) ### Everything We Think We'll See At Microsoft's Tuesday Event [Fake Cell Phone Towers Could Be Tapping Into Your Phone](/video/Qiz2DbKT/) ### Fake Cell Phone Towers Could Be Tapping Into Your Phone [The Cell Phone Turns 40](/video/MxhokURv/) ### The Cell Phone Turns 40 --- ## Transcript >> Hello, people of Product News. My name is Bren, nice to meet you. >> Hello. My name is Alex. >> I'm Amanda. -[ unk ]-- >> I have, like, over 2, 000 friends now. >> How do you-- how do you know she's [ unk ]--? >> Well, I mean, I just kind of, you know, a really good-- >> You're so popular. >> Oh, no, no. I only actually, like, really care about, like, maybe less than fifty. >> I'm a member of a ton of a different social media network. >> Social network that I use the most is Facebook. >> And really with my phone I think, I like to have all my social media how to work together. >> I have in my cell my Facebook. It really connects the way you want on whatever, and as for me it's for finding musicians or being on starlight. >> But it's not that easy as I would like it to be the enter phase. It's just really hard to use. >> But it's a little bit restrictive. >> And I've reached for it just fell into the water and everything was gone. All my contacts. Everything. >> This one also does not have a flash. >> And the problem that I have a lot of, that it takes a good minute or so to upload it here of my area, and send it to Facebook, and send it to Twitter, and send it to my email to get it off of my phone. I take pictures of basically everything in random stuff. >> I upload them usually to Facebook. >> I send little send off, like mass text messages. >> You would send as text, send it to Facebook, send to Twitter, put 'em all out. >> it's just is really in. It's really brilliant. >> I'm so excited. I'm so freakin' excited. >> he was in every photo of [ unk ]. 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