http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Apr 12th 2010 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/'Kin mess]]>Apr 12th 2010 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/
Can you elaborate? I'm seriously trying to find this "cluttered mess" people keep talking about.]]>Apr 12th 2010 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Apr 12th 2010 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Apr 12th 2010 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/
What are you blind?]]>Apr 12th 2010 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Apr 12th 2010 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/
No, really. Where is it?]]>Apr 12th 2010 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/wat about the mytouch slide]]>Apr 12th 2010 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Apr 12th 2010 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Apr 12th 2010 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Apr 12th 2010 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/how does the phone distinguish between moving through the UI and dragging something into the kin-spot or what the name was...]]>Apr 12th 2010 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Apr 12th 2010 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Apr 12th 2010 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Apr 12th 2010 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/
Get to know some hipsters. Yes they do live like that.

http://www.latfh.com/]]>Apr 12th 2010 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/
I think he's confused because the interface is not a 4x4 grid of square icons with rounded edges.]]>Apr 12th 2010 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/
...Whats up my Kin-Folk! (I said it first..WHAT!?)]]>Apr 12th 2010 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/
I want to know how many checks Apple sends out on a daily basis to engadget apple fanbabies....]]>Apr 12th 2010 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/
Ok...everyone gets it, you hate the Kin. Now go away or talk about something constructive.]]>Apr 12th 2010 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Apr 12th 2010 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Apr 12th 2010 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/
The fact is the Android, iPhone, etc... interfaces with rows upon rows of icons are uninspired and dull to look at. It can also be a pain when one icon gets out of place. Paging through rows of icons to find that missing one.

I am very interested in this new WinPho7 general direction. It has potential. The Spot is a cool idea. I already could see the value of it on my iPhone. I also like the hub "Kin Studio". The timeline aspect is cool. Especially if you are a person who uploads a lot of picture updates every day.

I think MS did the young market a solid with this phone. Most parents are not going to drop $$$ on an iPhone for their kid. Kids loose phones and break them constantly. If this type of phone ends up free with a plan, well, I see them appearing in young hands everywhere.]]>Apr 12th 2010 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/
my head is starting to hurt, i cannot believe this is coming out of MSFT.

good job ballmer, kinda glad that gates left you his spot

if it wasn't for him, we'd probably be waiting for 6.5.4 right about now]]>Apr 12th 2010 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/It's a clusterf*ck of information, in a stuttering UI. It blows.]]>Apr 12th 2010 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Apr 12th 2010 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Apr 12th 2010 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Finally a constructive comment
+1 couldn't agree more.]]>Apr 12th 2010 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/
At least it's not as boring as your grid of icons... Creds to M$ for acutally trying something different. Next? Courier!

Never thought Engadget would have this "coverage" of this actually.]]>Apr 12th 2010 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/As many checks as Microsoft sends to the commentors that deride anything Apple here, regardless of how superior it is to what they are defending. Windows 7, WINMO7, anything Zune, these here joke phones, the non-existent Courier, and the massive Surface, which I am sure will be in every livingroom soon, these guys will defend til the end while calling everyone who disagrees a 'fanboy' Oh the irony!
Hello LAY, Mark Anderson, N900 & others - downrank away, it is all you've got@]]>Apr 12th 2010 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/
Well Said. I could't have said it any better]]>Apr 12th 2010 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Just because kids are expert multi-taskers doesn't mean they enjoy a cluttered mess of a collage-style phone screen. If that were the case dry-erase and cork boards would be the highest selling room accessory at Target - they're not.

Definition for "cluttered mess" = when a UI doesn't offer any visual or intuitive indication off how to access information or features, or offers the same indicators for different information. On the Kins there's never any clear visual indication of whether you need to slide down, up, left or right for a particular screen/option. There's never any progress indication of how much of a photo has been uploaded. I'd hate to see what the error messages on this UI look like. Especially since this UI is designed by the Redmond masters of error screens. And that's just a few examples of "cluttered mess".]]>Apr 12th 2010 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/
not everyone is a gadget enthusiast and need all stuff in their phone. People just want to use their phone to connect with social network, take picture and listen music and call people. Normal people don't show off how this UI or GUI is so cool and pwn your phone GUI or UI. They just want something that is easy to use and easy to use is not a list with icons.]]>Apr 12th 2010 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/I agree. Thought id hate it. Simple. Very glossy UI. Really creative. Innovative. It's what ms needs.
Hell this UI is so clean it could be a social networking site on its own.
Not enough to kill my hero's sense UI. But enough for me to skin my itouch with this.
Two claps, ms finally gets it. ]]>Apr 12th 2010 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://bit.ly/microsoft-kin-impressions
]]>Apr 12th 2010 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Apr 12th 2010 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/5. Good design is unobtrusive
10. Good design is as little design as possible.]]>Apr 12th 2010 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/The Hardware is not bad but the OS is NOT AT ALL pretty and feels ugly and unorganized. I like my nicely separated icons.

I will have to get some hands on before fully judging but so far windows mobile 7 is not something that I would seek out. At least not in any form I have seen thus far.]]>Apr 12th 2010 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/
On a dumbphone... scheduled intentionally a few days after Apple released iPhone OS 4 to developers...

*facepalm]]>Apr 13th 2010 5:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/
What was wrong with metro? :(]]>Apr 13th 2010 6:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Apr 13th 2010 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Apr 12th 2010 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Apr 12th 2010 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK2tWVj6lXw&feature=fvst]]>Apr 12th 2010 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Apr 12th 2010 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/
"This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."

Please unleash the Death Star on Canada's bureaucracy.]]>Apr 12th 2010 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/
Correct me if I am wrong, but Vader never acts like he is full of himself. In fact, after you fall from Anakin-grace, you become much more humble and modest when it comes to your superiority. And you never look down on your servants except when they do wrong, so calling us "minions" really isn't right.

Please don't force choke me.]]>Apr 12th 2010 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 The force is strong with this video]]>Apr 12th 2010 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/microsoft-kin-ui-walkthrough/Big V you have angered the great lords of Sony Entertainment. They have banned your great video. Does this act of defiance call for war?
Your Engadget fleet is ready to dispatch on your command.]]>Apr 12th 2010 2:44PM