Sprint's pink Instinct shows up on Best Buy's site for outrageous price
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Dec 31st 2008 3:31AM
posted Dec 31st 2008 3:31AM
[Thanks, Emilio]
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That's very ugly, even for pink!
Don't put all pinks in this! Man what its it guys and pink? Its perfect nice color(not on everything of course, not even Barbie has everyone of her possessions in pink)?
Besides it looks more like purple to me(a very ugly purple)... Hmmmmmm but lets pretend I would like to buy it:
$599,99 for you guys its for me $ 1.391,97....
No, no thank you.
your very ugly, even for a human!
Your welcome! I was just looking for a phone when it was right there!
Looks like an iPhone killer to me.
Looks like SHITE! to me!!!
what the hell? are you kidding me?
i can purchase a PS3 and still have some money left over with that kind of money.
Worst phone I ever seen!!! Touch pro FTW
Too bad the Instinct battery life is probably better than my Touch Pro...
It's almost like Sprint thinks they're operating in Canada.
i dont get it, what is it a gaming console too?
thats cuz all samsung makes is shit. i dont own anything samsung, and i never will.
My parents' samsung dvd player lasted a good 2 years, and I know a lot of people who swear by samsung products.
Monitors and tv's are good
If you think this thing is good looking you must be one of there early few infected by the y9k virus
Perhaps this is a place-filler price, used to enter the device into Best Buy systems without knowledge of the exact MSRP. Other stores normally use values in the thousands of dollars or use the release date as a price, but I could see how a $599 price tag would serve the same purpose.
600usd is outrageous for none contract phone!? you guys at engadget smoking some good stuff...
Look how much unlocked iphone goes on at ebay.... 600usd for high end phone is pretty much.. CHEAP!
It's not worth $600. Maybe about $400 is better. I've tried a friend's instinct. It's kinda awkward to use, but that's just me. I like buttons on my phone.
Pink Instinct? I've seen that movie.
What is it, a movie about bubble gum?
Looks cute!.
Too bad all you'll be able to do with it is look at it because of the high failure rate of the OS of the phone.
nah the Instinct is actually pretty good now that all the updates have occured. But to come out with last years phone, in a gender-biased color is just suicide. People want the Instinct-2 by now... and girls that want the instinct either already have it in Black, or got one in black for xmas. At the very least they should have released this phone for xmas.
Cmon Hesse, sometimes it looks like you have half-a-brain... other times it looks like you don't use that half
It doesn't have OS X. I got an iPhone instead.
nobody cares fuck you
Wow ugly and in pink. I think they missed the point of (-1)*(-1) = +1 in math classes.
...really?
i'm the only one who said "Pink Instinct" outloud and laughed?
(...pink 'n stink...)
This handset will be released in February, presumably around valentine's day. Sprint always releases some limited edition handset in pink for valentine's day. As for retail price? At a bare minimum, i'm sure $99 with a 2 year agreement, possibly $129, through that's a bit unlikely.
And as a former Best Buy Mobile employee, yes, their outright prices are waaaay ridiculous. I mean, a Touch Pro for $750? That's just obnoxiously arrogant.