With Verizon’s excellent service & the right corporate discounts in play it made sense to go with Verizon & Windows Phones when Coral & I finally combined phone services.
We got Coral a KIN Two. The KIN avoids standing between you & people, putting as much as possible about what’s going on in their lives right on your home screen. The people are the apps. The camera photo sharing is quick & easy. It needs a shared calendar, and Coral thinks it could use a better “favorites” system for people, and strangely the Zune social is absent. For business use I can see a problem with KIN. But for personal or family use, the KIN is super.
My phone choice was the Omnia II. Samsung and Verizon did a number on this one. The hardware’s alright, but they’ve loaded it with apps which try to take your money (City ID, the phone answer screen), which let you pan senselessly through pictures of surfers (TouchWiz) and which are designed for humans with transparent fingers (Swype keyboard.) I managed to remove most of this junk, and it’s not that bad… it still hits a smartphone functionality mark & the price is right… but KIN would’ve been kinder to me I think.
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