When I wrote the pro-KIN article back in April I had not used or seen the phone. Still to this day I have not, but I have watched several videos of people using them. I don’t need to say that they suck, because the world already knows that.

Microsoft only sold 8,810 units. Ever. To put that into perspective with other recent releases – iPhone 4 had 600,000 pre-orders and Evo 4G sold 150,000 its first weekend. While the KIN is just a feature phone its all time numbers are nothing compared to the rest of the markets first weekend.

I read about the KIN when it was first announced and I agree that the turtle shaped KIN ONE was garbage, but I did fancy the KIN TWO. That is until I actually saw how slowly it ran. It is slow. Slow slow slow. The status updates looked cool, but not when it takes over 30 seconds to load all the information every time you unlock the phone.

This phone seems great for middle school aged kids. They left out one killer feature for this young market. All the kiddies love AIM! There isn’t an instant messaging client for the KIN! Not even for Microsoft’s Live Messenger. I have no idea what they were thinking.

They did do one thing right though – Zune player. The best mp3 player in my opinion is definitely Zune. Microsoft thought it would be a great idea to add it into KIN. From everything I have seen, it was a flawless implementation. This gives me hope for Windows Phone 7, which also sports Zune’s sexy UI.

To conclude, I made a huge mistake. You live and you learn right? Be sure to let me know what an idiot I was in the comments!

Tags: kin, kin one, kin two, microsoft, sales numbers, wrong

Reviews

This iPhone app is a game, but the game sucks. It is just a side-scrolling, 2d, action game, and is currently available for free in the App Store.

What makes this game unique is the videos that create an interactive movie experience. If this were a movie released in theaters, then critics would complain about the sub-par acting and poor writing, but an exciting film for action junkies.

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Tags: action, app, blood, game, gore, iPhone, video

App, Breaking News, Reviews, iPhone/iTouch App Review

I have mixed opinions about the HTC Hero. In theory, it’s amazing. In practice, it can use a little work.

The phone, of course, comes without a physical keyboard. The on-screen keyboard is decent, though a little more cramped than that of the iPhone. Basically, it would be disastrous without the predictive text. With the predictive text, it’s actually pretty good. With one word, I typed every letter wrong and it still knew what I meant. Impressive, right?

Then there’s the messaging. To me, messaging is the most important function of any phone. It’s all I do every day. It’s somewhat of an improvement over my last phone, as the messages are grouped together into conversations where instead of viewing one message at a time, you can see a whole thread of them. It also allows you to send messages that are more than 160 characters. There is also this really cool feature where the phone tries to guess when messages you received were sent, and insert them in the correct place on the timeline. For example, if someone sends a message a minute before you but you don’t receive it until after send yours, the phone will insert it before your message. Unfortunately, sometimes this messes up and it can be confusing because the phone will show someone answering your question before you actually asked it.

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Tags: android, hero, htc, senseUI, Sprint

Phone, Reviews

While browsing the App Store today I came across this game. I’ve played a lot of DonutGames’s free iPhone games and thought I would try this one out. So I purchased it for $0.99. After playing it for a minute, I realized that it was just interminable monotonous jumping on a scooter. While I realized this was the concept of the game, I thought it would contain a little more.

Their game Rat on the Run contains the exact Rat Scooter game, and it’s free! The only difference is that there aren’t different “gametypes” for the scooter like on Scooter XL. These “gametypes” are just different items you have to land on to score points, so all of them are essentially one in the same.

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Tags: app, game, iPhone, Rat on Scooter XL

App, Reviews, iPhone/iTouch App Review

A Christmas Santa is one of the top applications currently in the App Store and warrants a review. It only costs $0.99, which is well worth it for this entertaining game.

There is a short plot explaining why Santa is flying. Apparently the reindeer do not want to fly anymore because Santa cannot afford to pay them, so Santa has decided to fly alone and has 45 days to learn how to fly.

If you have ever played the flash game, Learn to Fly, then you have played this game.

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Tags: app, game, iPhone, santa

App, Reviews, iPhone/iTouch App Review

First off let me say this, I have always been a major fan of webOS. The GUI is absolutely gorgeous, and the way it handles multitasking is lightyears ahead of the rest of the market. The Pixi comes preloaded with the latest build of webOS and with it comes Yahoo integration.

I had to go to a Sprint retail store since Palm is unreliable with their review units. We received an email shortly after the release of the Palm Pre from Palm’s marketing department letting us know that they would be sending us a unit to review ASAP, but to this date we have still not received it.

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Tags: Palm, Pixi, Pre, Sprint, webOS

Phone, Reviews

Verizon is really counting on the Droid to steal some of iPhone’s massive market share. For a while now we have seen Verizon’s iDon’t commercials. The truth is that all they hype that has been built up ended with a big letdown.

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Tags: android, Droid, google, Motorola, Verizon

Phone, Reviews

The current top selling application is Camera Genius. It is right above Camera Zoom and will put it out of business instantly since it does so much more than simply zoom. Camera Genius packs zoom, anti-shake, timer, and along with other things a very innovative feature called sound capture.

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Tags: app, camera, genius, iPhone

iPhone/iTouch App Review

This is one of the first decent FPS games for the iPhone. You can either play survivor mode against AI bots or play FPS locally or online. The online multiplayer requires either a wifi connection of 3G. This means you can actually play this game on the go as long as you have 3G reception.

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Tags: fps, game, iPhone, multiplayer

iPhone/iTouch App Review

Memory Info is a $0.99 iPhone App that lets you free up your memory on the device. Since the iPhone doesn’t have any task manager built in, you either have to download an app like this or reset your phone if you need to free up memory. This is a much faster option and as an added bonus you get a battery percentage which is fairly accurate.

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Tags: memory

iPhone/iTouch App Review