The Kin phones are what you get if you let somebody who is obsessed with the idea of "Web2.0", clouds and social networking design a phone but not actually have any experience of phones or UI design. The social networking parts are clunky and have an awful interface.

If Microsoft hadn't actually released it, I would have assumed that the two Kin phones were concept phones.

There is a setting to disable the light sensor and do manual brightness.