Best Buy to sell iPhone 3G starting next month
And now for the irony: it'll be no better a buy than what you can find at ye olde Apple or AT&T store. Best Buy officially becomes the first third-party retailer in the US to sell the iPhone in an official capacity -- 3G or otherwise -- when it launches the iPhone 3G in some 970 stores plus an additional 18 dedicated Mobile locations on September 7 for the same $199 and $299 price points found elsewhere. Quoth Best Buy Mobile's CEO, "We had a lot of work to do, obviously, to get in a position where Apple and AT&T would feel good about Best Buy Mobile carrying it, and that's what we've done in the last 18 months." In other words, this has been a pretty persistent effort to score the third-party exclusive essentially since the original model was announced, and it's just now paying off. There's no indication on how the addition of Best Buy to the US sales mix will affect production or distribution, but at least there'll be one more place to try to find some frickin' stock.
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woot! I'm a Best Buy Mobile employee... and this is good news.
weak ass photoshop lol
maybe it was just MS Paint? :P
awesome, they cant even get phones into at&t stores...and now they're going to add close to 1000 more stores to the list of who needs them? brilliant
iPhone rocksss!!!
oh wait it still cracks at the top. fail.
he he he
all you can say it that a line appears at the top ?
ok.. so lets buy a crappy winmo phone just cuz the good phone has a tiny crack.
your brilliant!! :D
THINK before you speak, ive told you this before noob. fail.
oh wait cnet wants all reports of failing 3g service because of its wide AOE. served bitch.
im served cuz there are a few spots of 3g not covered?? hahahahaha
served biatch!!
THINK before you speaknoob. fail.
a few? you're a dumb ass. try hundreds.
a few? try more like hundreds moron.
you have no idea what your talking about :)
sigh* with noobs would crawl in a hole (:
Itsuru @ Aug 13th 2008 10:43PM
I have an iphone, I think it's great, but I don't go defending it in any post I can Erik, you're fucking annoying,
wow, plagerism and f*g
:D
I'll believe it when I see it. Which will be after 2009 according to the AT&T/Apple exclusive reseller agreement.
Um you are wrong.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10016087-37.html?tag=cnetfd.mt
Wow. Way to lie to all of your committed/dedicated customers who sprang when it first came out.
Now that both AT&T and Apple have reaped the rewards, anyone who didn't know it was at BestBuy is going to get raped trying to find a unit at an AT&T store.
On another note- I wouldn't want to be the guy working at BestBuy, arguing with a customer about whether or not it can actually be activated without going to the AT&T store before they head home like most Johnny Q. Public with 2.5 kids may have heard (or not, in this case).
Oh yeah, did I hint already and go so far as to say that once again, Apple just screwed over their early adopters and fanboys?
Steve Jobs is going out the way George Lucas did... I can't wait for an iPhone with THX Certification for it's 5.1channel awesomeness blasting out of hand-matched 2mm drivers. It'll be just loud enough to fill a whole cubicle with piercing treble and lackluster bass, pissing off everyone around me trying to get some work done.
/end rant
who are you married to
how exactly did they screw the early adopters? it would've been a million times worse if they had launched it at at&t, apple and best buy stores...it was hard enough to find stock in most cities as it was...it would've just added to the disappointment of many people who could've been in line at one store that ran out, instead of being at one that didn't
This post made no sense but if that was an attempt at a joke, you bombed.
fail
which cites will they be located at?
The sales guys at apple AT&T can't make any money as it is now.....cuz they cant get inventory. Apple Stores have plenty all day, every day. Having the phone at BB just makes it worse.
I ordered my 3G Thursday after lunch, got it the following Tuesday morning.
They do a good job of keeping you up to date on where it is, and when it will get there.
rofl
Wow - I never thought Apple would sell their stuff at Wal-Mart.
damn i dont want to deal with people buying this phone its bad enough when they come in every day asking if we have it
and sorry the iphone isnt close to what the touch pro can do
Next stop, Target!
Next stop, Target!
Next stop....Target!