Photos courtesy of Chipworks.

The Kins are Microsoft's first foray into cellphones. As noted on the back of the Kin Two, they're very sharp Verizon phones, ones that have windows on them.

We call shenanigans. They weren't sharp at all, nor were any windows to be found. Silly Microsoft.

The top of the phone features a headphone jack, while a Micro USB port can be found on the bottom.

The Kin Two is 19.05 mm thick. That makes for a bigger bulge in the pants, given that the thickness of the iPhone and Motorola Droid are 12.3 mm and 13.7 mm, respectively.

Enter "Is that a Kin Two, or are you happy to see me?" jokes here.

Sliding the screen upwards reveals a relatively simple keyboard. No fancy D-pad, just one "alternate" text button. Judging from the look of the keyboard, Microsoft's marketing this phone to the 12-year-old txting crowd.

The back side reveals the lovely 8MP camera and LED flash...

...And the back cover comes off to reveal several screws underneath!

It looks like it's pretty easy to exchange the battery in the Kin Two. Hint, hint, Apple!

With the two sliding halves of the phone separated, you can easily see the odd-shaped springs that keep the phone either fully open or fully closed.

The connector highlighted in yellow is responsible for sending data between main board and the display, microphone, speaker, and touchscreen.

Several rows of pressure contacts help exchange data between the main board and the external buttons, microphone, speaker, and antennas embedded in the outer case.

The camera is the Sony IMX046, which is fabricated using a 90 nm CMOS process. The camera's resolution is 8.11 effective megapixel (8 active megapixel), 1.4 μm sized pixel, 1/3.2" optical format. Samsung was the first to use this camera in the M8800.

An LED flash placed next to the camera lens on the rear case sheds some light on night shots.

For all its pixels, the camera only eats up about .5 cm³ of space inside the Kin.

Separating the two halves of the display assembly reveals a bunch of cables connecting the microphone, speaker, display, and digitizer to the main board.

The digitizer is a Synaptics unit, and the main controller chip is labeled T1021A 1 0939 ACOM755.

The front and back of the main board.

The camera is nestled quite nicely in a little cutout near the top of the board.

When buttons are pressed on the QWERTY keyboard, they simply bridge the connection between the gold ring and its center dot.

If only the steel shield supports were gone so we could view the board unobstructed...