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Walmart to sell a 4GB, $99 version of the iPhone?

walmart99iphone.jpgIf you bought one of the original iPhones for a whopping $599, you might want to stop reading now, because you aren't going to like it. There's a rumor floating around that Walmart, who's going to start selling Apple's flagship mobile device starting next year, is going to get an exclusive version of it. It'll have 4GB of hard drive space and will be priced at a crazy-low $99.

Of course, as I said, this is pure rumor. Apple isn't one to go creating special versions of its products for different retailers, but if it's looking to really take aim at the low-end customer, this could be a good way to do it. Maybe it'll be exclusive at Walmart for a time before becoming available elsewhere? Or maybe it won't be exclusive to Walmart at all. Or maybe it won't even exist. We'll know soon enough.

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It's hard as AT&T has exclusive rights to the iPhone. Supposedly apple approached Verizon first and Verzon refused ...More »


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By gizzmogeek at 1:13 PM ON 12/04/08

Put the iPhone on the verizon network and I'd own two tomorrow. Seriously, how hard is it to open up the distribution to other cell carriers?

By ansar at 1:50 PM ON 12/04/08

It's hard as AT&T has exclusive rights to the iPhone. Supposedly apple approached Verizon first and Verzon refused to let Apple sell phones the way they wanted, add visual voicemail...etc so they went to Cingular.

Now add the fact that Verizon is a CDMA network and the iPhone is a GSM phone....not gonna happen anytime soon.

I just dropped Verizon for AT & T and couldn't be happier.


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