Apple's iPhone and WalMart may be Oxymoron terms in one sentence. But here's the news:

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Posted by Michelle Meyers
This post was updated at 9:41 a.m. PST with more details from Wal-Mart.


iPhone 3G(Credit: James Martin/CNET Networks)

Wal-Mart on Friday confirmed that it will be selling Apple's iPhone 3G beginning Sunday at about 2,500 stores. The price, with a new two-year service agreement with AT&T (or qualified upgrade), is $197 for the black 8GB model and $297 for the black or white 16GB version.

"We are delighted to bring customers this ground-breaking mobile technology," said Gary Severson, Wal-Mart senior vice president of entertainment, said in a statement. "Our electronics associates have been preparing for many weeks for the arrival of iPhone 3G."

And some of them, let the cat out of the bag a little early, as CNET News' Marguerite Reardon noted several weeks ago.

The popular smartphones are currently available at Apple retail stores, AT&T stores and in Best Buy retailers, where the 8GB phone is sold for $199 and 16GB phones are sold for $299.

Wal-Mart's iPhone offering amounts to a whole two dollars in savings and negates, for now anyway, the rumored 4GB model that some had speculated Wal-Mart would sell for $99.

Wal-Mart will be staffing Apple iPhone 3G kiosks located in the Walmart Connection Center in the store's home entertainment department.


So what do you think?

(a) WalMart finally wakes up and started to sell quality items instead of 100% crap.
(b) Apple actually manufactured the iPhones in China and so it is now for sale at WalMart as high quality crap.
(c) WalMart and Apple doesn't care much about what you think as long as it brings in profit for both.

I vote both B & C. I won't be buying an iPhone from Wal Mart. Actually, I have never owned a cell phone of any type in my entire life, and I will probably never purchase a cell phone. I figure, if I don't have a cell phone, then no one can call me. - Millet

I saw on the news today someone will be selling iphones for $99, they are refurbished ones though.

We have a cell phone but just barely, $15/mo for 50 minutes and no free long distance minutes. Good to carry for an emergency or if you stay close to home!

I drool over the i=phone and it's apps, I'd love one but would probably ring up 100s of dollars a month playing with it. That is, if I could figure out how to use it- I'm at that age now where technology is passing me by!