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Best Buy seems to be be the place to go for smartphones as of late. \u00c2\u00a0Does the phone have a ridiculous mail-in rebate like the upcoming EVO 4G? \u00c2\u00a0Best Buy will just take it off the price. \u00c2\u00a0Does the phone cost about $50 too much for the intended market? \u00c2\u00a0Best Buy will solve that problem as well.<\/p>\n
The Kin phones from Microsoft launched last month<\/a>, with the Kin One costing $50 and the Kin Two costing $100 after rebate. \u00c2\u00a0The phones are somewhere between a feature phone and smartphone, aimed directly at pre-teens to those in their early twenties. \u00c2\u00a0The only problem was that the phones were just a bit too expensive for that market. \u00c2\u00a0Best Buy has answered by lowering the phones by $50 each, bringing the Kin One to free on a two-year contract, and the Kin Two to $50 with a two-year contract.\u00c2\u00a0{Engadget<\/a>}<\/p>\n That still doesn’t solve the problem of the $30 data contract required for the phones, however.\u00c2\u00a0 With actual phone service, the total comes in around $70\/month. That, unfortunately for Best Buy, is left up to Verizon Wireless and Microsoft. \u00c2\u00a0Given the phones’ market, it’s more likely that the users parents would be buying the phones and paying the contracts every month. \u00c2\u00a0It’s not very likely that there are a lot of parents who are willing to spend an extra $30 per month on a phone that can only really use Twitter, Facebook and the mobile web, but coupled with enough pressure from teens the free price tag of the Kin One could be convincing.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, with the price of the monthly data plan, we’re betting that the tech savvy teens will save their leverage to get a Palm Pre Plus or Droid Incredible instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Best Buy seems to be be the place to go for smartphones as of late. Does the phone have a ridiculous mail-in rebate like the upcoming EVO 4G? Best Buy will just take it off the price. Does the phone cost about $50 too much for the intended market? Best Buy will solve that problem as well.<\/p>\n The Kin phones from Microsoft launched last month, with the Kin One costing $50 and the Kin Two costing $100. The phones are somewhere between feature and smartphones, aimed directly at pre-teens to those in their early twenties. The only problem was that the phones were just a bit too expensive for that market. Best Buy has answered by lowering the phones by $50 each, bringing the Kin One to free on a two-year contract, and the Kin Two to $50 with a two-year contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6840],"tags":[3349,1105,3350,3036,3039,1374,286,3010,3352],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12589"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12613,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589\/revisions\/12613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}