The Really Mobile Project: Kinoma Play “a bloody good app”
We first discovered a great mobile-focused blog called The Really Mobile Project when we introduced Kinoma Play for Symbian/S60.
The site published an excellent review of Kinoma Play. Although we linked to it on Twitter a few times, we realized that we’d never made a note of it here!
What’s especially nice is how the author — mobile technology expert Ben Smith — gets to the heart of both the what and the why of Kinoma Play. To quote (emphasis mine):
So what is Kinoma Play? At heart it’s a media player, but that description sells it short. It’s an audio player, picture viewer, a video player, a podcast manager (and player), a YouTube client, plus it’s got interfaces to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
The trouble is, that longer description makes it sound like a mess — trying to be all things to all people… But it’s not. And that’s actually made me a fan. It’s the polish…the refinement, the usability.
I quickly re-produced my media library (normally on my iPhone) onto my now-ageing N82 — podcasts, audio in multiple formats (including non-DRM content from the iTunes Store) and RSS feeds were all viewable just as easily as the iPhone. It’s advanced enough to keep the geeks happy and I’d happily give it to a ‘non-geek’ to use too, it’s that good.
Check out the rest of this thoughtful review at The Really Mobile Project.
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