iPhone 4 arrives at Walmart (update: and Best Buy!)

Check out that sweet, sweet box. Yes folks, we seem to have received our very first in-the-cardboard picture of the retail iPhone 4 out in the wild. We don't work at Walmart, so we can't verify this one for ourselves, but our tipster says Apple's latest phone has just landed in the big box retailer's storehouses.

P.S. -- Before you start frothing at the mouth, the CDMA coding on the box in the background relates to an LG 290C handset also stocked by Walmart.

Update: A shot of a Best Buy arrival is past the break.

[uckApple Posted Jun 22nd 2010 4:58AM]

@derkaderka

OH MY GOD

THIS IS SO AWESOME

And you people are SERIOUSLY fast lol

[uckApple Posted Jun 22nd 2010 5:00AM]

@uckApple

You know Engadgets servers are on over drive when the comments start getting all messed up :P

IPHONE 4 FTW

[MrKnowItAll Posted Jun 22nd 2010 7:16AM]

Beer-garden had it first!

[Vellie Posted Jun 22nd 2010 10:00AM]

@MrKnowItAll the irony of putting it in front of a box that says CDMA... Tease me no more!

[jmhalder Posted Jun 22nd 2010 10:18AM]

@uckApple had this @ 4286 Montgomery, IL two nights ago... the box art I'm sure was available, my co. mgs, tweeted it... I'm sure other stores had it then too... guess I shouldve tipped you guys... oh yeah, guess how many we have? 1, no joke... just 1.

[jmhalder Posted Jun 22nd 2010 10:20AM]

@MrKnowItAll had this @ 4286 Montgomery, IL two nights ago... the box art I'm sure was available, my co. mgs, tweeted it... I'm sure other stores had it then too... guess I shouldve tipped you guys... oh yeah, guess how many we have? 1, no joke... just 1... can I get a mention if I get a good few shots of it with my SLR?

[coolkams03 Posted Jun 22nd 2010 10:43AM]

@jmhalder

it is interesting to see how the text CDMA is in focus and not the box ..

[dfreeindy Posted Jun 22nd 2010 11:03AM]

@coolkams03 That's because the reflection in the box is in focus. I'm guessing it's focal range is the same as the CDMA sticker.

[cookdorf Posted Jun 22nd 2010 12:51PM]

@MrKnowItAll @Engadget

There's a couple of things left out of this 'exclusive'. For instance, this is a white iPhone box, so could we assume that this is a White iPhone 4? Which we could then gather that Walmart may have stock in the White iPhone 4? For 3G & 3GS White box=White. Black box=Black. Just trying to think outside the box... ;)

But you say the iPhone printed on the box is black? Well thats an interesting bit of info. All previous iPhones were printed square on the box, not showing the back of the device, which would indicate the color. But iPhone 4 has color on both sides. So maybe they just decided to stick with 1 print (a black phone) and use different color packaging.

Thoughts?

[tklr08 Posted Jun 22nd 2010 2:06PM]

@Vellie
Apple: Yeah, we're releasing this bitch on Sprint

[Trevsweb Posted Jun 22nd 2010 4:57AM]

nice havent got mine yet... taps fingers on desk

[tobsmonster2 Posted Jun 22nd 2010 4:57AM]

I can has?

[Mercenary Posted Jun 22nd 2010 6:36AM]

@tobsmonster2 No has yet. Go play with your ball of string.

[rkmac Posted Jun 22nd 2010 4:57AM]

Nice packaging, but I still prefer the one with the phone in life-size on the outside.

[Irina Posted Jun 22nd 2010 6:55AM]

@rkmac any why is the camera focusing on the background? =

[Ruthless Posted Jun 22nd 2010 7:11AM]

@Irina The pic was taken with an EVO 4!!

[eGGnext Posted Jun 22nd 2010 7:17AM]

@Irina Even with a good camera, Mr Blurrycam needs the blurryness...

[SlimSpaceman Posted Jun 22nd 2010 7:25AM]

@Irina because it's a blurry-cam shot!

[huzzlehoff Posted Jun 22nd 2010 7:39AM]

@Ruthless
Hater

[StickyD Posted Jun 22nd 2010 7:57AM]

@Ruthless impossible! This picture isn't grainy enough to be taken with the EVO's shitty 8mp camera! HA!

[tobsmonster2 Posted Jun 22nd 2010 7:57AM]

@eGGnext
Didn't you guys hear? Mr.BlurryCam = Nilay Patel.

[Blaque14K Posted Jun 22nd 2010 8:09AM]

@Ruthless No actually it was taken with a 3GS with the new iOS 4 update between its infinite reboots.

[Jon Rubenstein Posted Jun 22nd 2010 8:46AM]

@Ruthless What's an EVO 4? Don't you mean EVO 4G?

[huzzlehoff Posted Jun 22nd 2010 9:00AM]

@Jon Rubenstein

Haters don't even know what they're hating

[Billy Posted Jun 22nd 2010 9:19AM]

@rkmac Yep and in which you can feel the depressed Home Button on the cover...

[Kid Red Posted Jun 22nd 2010 9:54AM]

@Blaque14K Ah, the ignorance. My update took a bit over an hour after backing up my phone with 1 restart. Enjoy your other phone and please hang out in the other phone comment section too.

[dfreeindy Posted Jun 22nd 2010 11:12AM]

@Irina The camera isn't focusing on the background, it's focusing on the reflection on the box, which happens to be the same focal range as the background.

[Triblade101 Posted Jun 22nd 2010 4:57AM]

Now lets see if Walmart decides to break street date.

[uckApple Posted Jun 22nd 2010 5:05AM]

@Triblade101

They will probably lose the privilege of selling apple products in their store if they do that, so no, they wont.

[tasteskindasalty Posted Jun 22nd 2010 9:05AM]

@uckApple Walmart lose privileges? They are the largest public corporation in the world, even [the almighty] Apple dwarfs Walmart. I don't think Apple has much say in how Walmart handles its merchandise.

[ssguy Posted Jun 22nd 2010 9:56AM]

@tasteskindasalty

nothing dwarfs the mighty fruit

[MrPacMan36 Posted Jun 22nd 2010 12:44PM]

@ssguy

Didn't sin and hatred come from eating an Apple in the Garden of Eden?

[MrPacMan36 Posted Jun 22nd 2010 12:45PM]

@MrPacMan36

No reason I capitalized "apple" people...

[derkaderka Posted Jun 22nd 2010 4:58AM]

Looks nice. First!!! Yipi ka yeah!

[loocas Posted Jun 22nd 2010 5:57AM]

So much fail...

[jtfromstl Posted Jun 22nd 2010 11:32AM]

@loocas
iPhone4 blah blah blah .... so much fail... so much crApple... Jobs sucks and so do all DICKtaters who lock devices down in the name of profit... The true success with be with companies that deliver OPEN devices and don't limit you to crApple carriers like AT&T (Apple's Troubled Transmitter) . I dumped the iPhone for the EVO and will never look back! No offence intended to the Engadget Apple phanboyees..

[UnderPaidOrphan Posted Jun 22nd 2010 4:58AM]

@derkaderka

Oh snap! new box design? i kinda like it.

[huzzlehoff Posted Jun 22nd 2010 7:41AM]

@UnderPaidOrphan

iDont

[Be All Beast Posted Jun 22nd 2010 2:36PM]

@UnderPaidOrphan are u kidding the new box design stinks!

[Ducman69 Posted Jun 22nd 2010 5:00AM]

You should create a poll to get a consensus on whether the EVO showing up on the Home Shopping Network sucks out more or less cool-factor than seeing the iPhone4 on sale at Walmart.

[osk Posted Jun 22nd 2010 6:41AM]

@Ducman69 Or seeing people camp outside of wamart/any retailer store for a phone.

[LockStock666 Posted Jun 22nd 2010 5:01AM]

I am blinded by the awesomeness.

[huzzlehoff Posted Jun 22nd 2010 7:42AM]

@LockStock666

I only see ugly packaging

[huzzlehoff Posted Jun 22nd 2010 9:02AM]

@huzzlehoff

Correction: Ugly packaging with shitty camera.

[UrAwFuL Posted Jun 22nd 2010 5:02AM]

Any chances on the white iPhone this week?

[uckApple Posted Jun 22nd 2010 5:04AM]

@UrAwFuL

And a Canada release date? :D

[brrip Posted Jun 22nd 2010 5:33AM]

@uckApple and iOS 4 on the iPad!

[kiwinick Posted Jun 22nd 2010 6:41AM]

@UrAwFuL
Any chance pigs will fly this week?

[NoNameAtAll Posted Jun 22nd 2010 9:06AM]

@kiwinick

Oh great, just what we need. Pig feces raining down upon us. D:

[Alan Strangis Posted Jun 22nd 2010 10:58AM]

@uckApple: I know... it was changed from "July" to "Soon"

http://www.rgbfilter.com/?p=5180

grrr