Just wanted to mention that I had issues getting the back button in the navbar to work. It turned out that the docs had a typo, once I looked at the source of one of the navbar examples, it worked. The docs say to use "back-button" as data-role when it should be "backbutton".
http://demos.kendoui.com/mobile/navbar/index.html
http://demos.kendoui.com/mobile/navbar/index.html