I use Durandal/Knockout and Breeze for my PhoneGap mobile App. Kendo Mobile is one of the best looking CSS libraries but cannot work with Durandal. This sums it up - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17758991/where-to-init-kendo-mobile-application-in-durandal/17786286?noredirect=1#17786286
This should be supported now that we decoupled the mobile widgets from the Kendo UI Mobile application: http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/web/mobile/actionsheet.html Therefore, you should be able to use them without instantiating our mobile application framework. Let me know if otherwise.
One of the biggest problems with KendoUI is that it doesn't play nicely with any other frameworks. I love Durandal and Knockout but of course they don't have the UI components like Kendo. I think KendoUI is trying to be too much and not doing a good enough job at the things other well established libraries do well. I would love to see Kendo either enable it to play nicely with the other frameworks or focus on what it's main goal is UI and leave the MVVM/Binding SPA etc to the other libraries. Anyway I would love to see kendo support Durandal.