Kin starts getting all social on Best Buy locations

In the event that you've got a Best Buy a click closer to you than a Verizon store -- and you just happen to have a hankering to check out Microsoft's Kin devices -- well, you're in luck, because the phones are showing up. Of course, offering a device like this that requires a $30 data plan under the roof of a building alleging to be a "Best Buy" seems a tad disingenuous, but who are we to judge?

[Thanks, Geoff]

[TonyMontana2367 Posted May 13th 2010 11:25PM]

They're already EOL

[sn0skier Posted May 13th 2010 11:51PM]

@TonyMontana2367
Can anyone give me a single reason that anyone would want this phone?

[djguapo Posted May 14th 2010 12:53AM]

@sn0skier 8 letters: Z-U-N-E and A-2-D-P

[HowardtheDuck Posted May 14th 2010 12:57AM]

@djguapo
Yeah, pretty much the only reason I want it is it is a Zune, with some phone involved.

[bdawson08 Posted May 13th 2010 11:32PM]

these are some of the ugliest phones I've ever seen

[djguapo Posted May 14th 2010 12:54AM]

They're also available at the Microsoft Stores in Mission Viejo, CA and Scottsdale, AZ

[Celz Posted May 14th 2010 1:12AM]

and people are complaing about the ten dollar data charge on the evo

[nickyP Posted May 15th 2010 9:08AM]

Yeah, I have a strong belief these will fail spectacularly. I'm not in the target age range (I'm 24), but the advertising just seems extremely hollow and vapid. Line like, "I don't have facebook to hide behind" strike me as wrong, considering that facebook hides little, whereas this is sort of a clunkier version of facebook with an attached MS website. The dataplan being full price kills the whole thing though. Tennagers and tweens aren't ignorant of technology, many of them would understand why an iphone would be better suited for their daily lives than this device, and the same price overall. This needed to be free on contract and $20 unlimited texting/internet, since lets face it, nobody is going to browse the web on these things for extended periods.