Your results are VERY encouraging! I bought P90x, but after going through the material and what-not I realized I’m a loser couch-potato (who knew?), so I have to dial it down and start with the Power 90 Boot Camp series, then move on to the harder stuff, like you. Where are you lately? It would be great to see further progress!
Keep up the great work!

I started searching last week for a alternative to my Lg Envy Touch phone. I just new there had to be a wifi, non data phone out there some where. I was pleasently surprised to see that VZW offered one. Or did offer. I found a KinTwom on ebay for around thirty bucks and when it gets here I am going to replace my Envy Touch with it. I am not expecting it to be a smart phone. All I am looking for is a non data required phone that allows me to use wifi when it is available. We pay for cable internet at home as well and I am looking forward to testing that part out. As long as it functions like my Envy Touch with texting and making phone calls I will be happy :)

I am glad to read a article that is positive for change about the Kin phones. I know that VZW is no longer selling them on their website or in stores but you can still buy them online pretty cheap. The best thing about this phone is if you buy one online and open a new account with VZW then you arent locked in a contract, dont have the ETF and you dont have to pay for the data plan. :)

I do have a question or two to ask about the KinTwom. When using Zune to listen to music, does it read music you have stored on the phone so you can listen to it? That wasnt clear to me reading the reviews on the phone.

Also another question is can you assign different ringtones to indiviual contacts? I know this is something I can do with my Envy Touch, so I wasnt sure if the Kin would have that feature or not.

@Ernest – To upload a photo to Facebook you have to use your email address that Facebook assigns to your account to send photos to. Just go to your account settings on Facebook, I believe its listed under the mobile settings. Your Facebook email will be listed there. Just attach the photo in email and send it to that address and it will appear on your profile.

Keep up posting your progress!

In response to your comment about it just being a rebranded KIN TWO, here’s a great article on PCMag.com that gives a bit of history of the KIN ONE and KIN TWO and the difference with the “m” versions. There were several changes between the KIN TWO and the KIN TWOm. I would have never purchased a KIN TWO.

I would say after owning the phone for a while that it is definitely not built like a tank. It’s a $20 phone. I felt like I had to be fairly careful with it. I’m not surprised that after a year and a half it started to flake out. It’s a cheap phone. No denying that.

I would also say that while this is an okay “basic” phone for what it does, I personally would feel really uneasy about using this as my only business phone line. If you want the “real” functionality of a phone like this for a business, I would recommend just paying the extra to get a full featured smartphone. It will be worth it, for sure.

As an update, my employer has recently provided me with an iPhone, so my KIN TWOm is sitting in a drawer. I don’t miss it. It definitely is not an iPhone (as we’ve all said), and I’ve always known the real thing is better. Now that someone else is paying the bill for it, it’s worth it!

Cool little phone, love the Wifi option and the FM radio.

Successful delegation is what good management is all about!

So, after only 2 days with it, I didn’t expect it to be like an iphone; I read a few reviews before purchase that prevented that. But it seems to lack “normal” feature phone features. The two things I miss most so far (again, after only 2 days) are being able to forward a text message, and having my alarm vibrate but without any sound. My last 2 feature phones had that. Oh, and obviously being able to transfer my contacts, even if only through Bitpim. Another thing I do through Bitpim is to transfer my Google calendar to my phone. That’ll be a bummer.

My texting is slow, because there are no numbers or punctuation marks (other than a period) without hitting a function key. I imagine I’ll get used to that over time.

But, I think I’ll stick with it for the next 2 years. It does have some nice advanced features not normally seen on feature phones, like wifi, nice camera, two-finger zoom, etc.

So I was a bit surprised to see you go with a Microsoft phone. My wife and I both have a new WP7 phone. Unlike you, I opted FOR the Zune Pass for several reasons.
1. Unlike Pandora… its on the WP7.
2. Unlike Pandora I can select, on demand, any song I want to listen to (within reason, some are blocked by artist).
3. Related to number 2, I can do that over and over and over again.
4. The $15 a month comes with 10 “free” songs each month that you can buy and keep forever, DRM free. So if you assume $1.29 per song you are buying 10 songs and then paying $2.01 for the ability to stream and download any song you want.
5. I’m all for people making some money for their craft. I expect to be paid for my craft, and while it isn’t the millions that artist are making. This gives them a great way to make some money and me a great way to acquire music.

Most folks don’t have the 5,000 songs that you have in your library, so they end up listening to the same songs over and over and over again. The Zune Pass gives a great way out of that cycle. If you buy a CD a month.. its worth it, because you can download most of the songs for free.

Now, talk to me 2 years from now and I may cancel it for a bit because I would have built up a good library.

You can find Mike’s letter to our church here and comment on his post.

Other than that, I’m really glad that Julie pointed you there! We’re really blessed to have Mike as our pastor. He’s a very close friend of mine, and it’s awesome to be able to serve alongside him.

I’m finding this is my best tool for getting pictures to family members so that I don’t have to send 50 e-mails every day.

Also, I’m probably going to offend a lot more people because I don’t hardly accept anyone’s friend requests anymore. I definitely learned a lot from my last bout with Facebook, and I don’t intent to make the same “mistakes” this time around.

So no, I would not say the net effect is the same. Apples and oranges really. Just something to drink besides water (although I also have a goal to drink more of that, especially since coffee can dehydrate you).

I’m thinking about making my own iced coffee with the cold press method. I admit that I like the evil McD’s iced coffee a little too well…maybe if I made my own I would feel better about it. :)

and yes…you are a cheapskate.