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Best Buy and Radio Shack to Sell iPhone 3G?

Monday June 30, 2008 8:04 pm PDT by Eric Slivka
The Boy Genius Report suggests that the iPhone 3G may be made available for purchase in Best Buy and Radio Shack retail stores in the U.S. While the report stresses that this is an unconfirmed rumor, they do claim that their source has a good track record.

There is no word on whether the iPhone 3G would be available in these stores on the July 11th launch date or if there would be a delay before it makes its way to these additional distribution points.
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11800506
Posted: 47 months ago
I don't think Apple would let them so they can keep a good buying experience.
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KrAyZiE
Posted: 47 months ago
Oh hey, I also heard they'd start selling them at Burger King and Walgreens.



Are you ****ing kidding me? Fake. They'd never let Best Buy or Radio Shack sell the iPhone; especially with all those strict activation requirements they've got this time around.
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Bosox3
Posted: 47 months ago

Oh hey, I also heard they'd start selling them at Burger King and Walgreens.



Are you ****ing kidding me? Fake. They'd never let Best Buy or Radio Shack sell the iPhone; especially with all those strict activation requirements they've got this time around.



why wouldnt they let Best Buy sell them? they sell every other phone..so I dont see why they wouldnt sell this one. they sell and activate Verizon phones.

Yea, I agree w/ Radio Shack though..there no way it goes on sale there.
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guru_ck
Posted: 47 months ago

why wouldnt they let Best Buy sell them? they sell every other phone..so I dont see why they wouldnt sell this one. they sell and activate Verizon phones.

Yea, I agree w/ Radio Shack though..there no way it goes on sale there.


Select Best Buy locations also have areas dedicated to Apple products now. I don't see this rumor being too far fetched.
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drober30
Posted: 47 months ago
Although my first response is to say no way... With every Best Buy now getting a huge Apple section and putting all the Apple stuff on display, this could be true on down the line but not around launch time.
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Rocketman
Posted: 47 months ago
If I could buy my two iPhone 3G's at Radio Shack I would, just to show it is truly mass-market.

RS should tell people.

iTunes 7.7 tethered would overcome "any" sales experience. And provide automagical update to recent iPhone 2.0 from manufacturer install that simply makes 3G phone active.

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jpruitt
Posted: 47 months ago
I would love to be able to buy this at Best Buy. I can get Reward Zone points, which is always a good thing.
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Eric Lewis
Posted: 47 months ago
More Stores Selling 3G = more in Hands of Customers = more $$$?

makes sense people
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SirOmega
Posted: 47 months ago
BB seems likely - but rat shack? I dunno.

And they definately wouldn't get them on July 11. Apple and AT&T are going to hoard the attention (and lines, accessory sales, etc) to themselves for the first why. I'd put it around October 1st when 3rd parties would be able to sell iPhone3Gs.
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Sun Baked
Posted: 47 months ago
Why not, get a pram battery for the Mac and a new iPhone 3G.

Seems about the only traffic Radio Shack has these days is for some cheesy electronic remote controlled gadget, cable, or a cellphone.
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