<p>I must start this review with a disclaimer: I was never really in favor of the idea behind Foursquare: You check in to a location to boast to the world about what restaurant you're eating at, and if you eat there enough, you get to be the faux "mayor" of that place. The app and service will also present coupons, a la Groupon, based on your movements. In a shot at the wonderful Yelp, Foursquare's promo text reads, "Don't waste time reading long reviews from strangers. Wherever you are in the world, open up Foursquare to see where your friends like to go." Not much help when none of your friends have been to Dubrovnik (which, by the way, is awesome!).</p><p>Another issue I have with Foursquare is that I don't necessarily want strangers to know my location, and why do I need another app when Facebook lets me check in for my friends to seenot the whole world. I also find it annoying when scanning my Facebook news feed and there's a Foursquare entry that requires opening another app just to see the details. Yelp now, too, lets you check in, and I find its food and local business features more helpful. Putting aside all my reservations, though, Foursquare has managed to put together a good-looking, full-functioning Windows Phone app.</p><p>I found Foursquare for Windows Phone on the Windows Store and installed the free app on a spiffy Nokia Lumia 928. Setting up such a place-oriented app of course requires allowing it access to your location at installation. The easiest way to sign up for or sign in to Foursquare is with Facebook, but I had trouble doing this in the Windows Phone app. I saw a white screen that said Success, but with a security warning. I reset my password from the Foursquare website, and was up and Foursquaring in no time.</p><p>InterfaceThe app shows a sliver of a local map across the top, then options for Explore, Activity, and Profile. Below this are tile buttons for Specials, Best Nearby, Saved, and More The last expands to a dizzying number of categories, like Trending, Arts, What's next? and Top Picks. For a joke, I chose Outdoors, here in midtown concrete jungle. It told me that two people were at the Empire State Building, and that that is popular with out-of-towners. First, on a beautiful day like this, I can swear that there are more than two humans up there, and second, is there anyone in the country who doesn't know that the Empire State Building is popular with out-of-towners? Digging into the "Tips" revealed that the spot has a "great view." Really? This is some real inside info, let me tell you.</p><p><a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2425233,00.asp">Keep reading...</a></p>