Biggest con on the market

Oh well looks like I was wrong about the wallmart/iPhone rumors. I'm still not sure this will ultimately help the bottom line of Apple or AT&T but time will tell. After all saving a whopping 2 bucks = /yawn. Or as the kids today say, meh.

Jesus to change his spots?

It was just that- foreplay ! One guess who gets shafted !

IDK, the kindsa folks that buy a cellphone from walmart always baffle me; you never save any money compared to a dedicated network stockist for being tied into the same deals, and it doesnt offer the flexibility or potential savings of buying one online, off-contract, either. I guess walmart is just shooting for the sector of the market that _might_ buy an iphone, but wouldnt go into an apple store or an AT&T outlet.

Im guessing that they start selling the 3g iphone in Areas where AT&Ts coverage isnt 3G as standard, or isnt covered at all. That, along with confused mouthbreathers shopping at 3am should ensure a nice glut of refurbished models, and possibly a class-action lawsuit against apple from Joe-sixpack and his acrylic-nailed wife, who complain that apple made a phone that looks too like an ipod to be told apart from them in the store.

iphone + ipod touch + 3am shoppers + side-by-side purchasing with no sales assistant = recipe for the lulz. (the lulz = hilarity, for those of you stuck in the tech market but unable to keep pace with acronym and abbreviation trends.)

Paris, cos, wait wat iphones at walmart oh look a quarter help my clothes fell off is that a camera omg.

Seething with such the masses may be, but alas, 'tis from within the ranks that you complain.

Read the article a bit more carefully, and you'll note that a contract must be signed to get the phone at the advertised price. It will not simply be sitting out on a shelf.

Mouthbreathing idiot.

tss. what has the world come to. It used to be that only wealthy people could afford a 600$ iPhone. You could flash it in front of someone , people would kiss the ground you walked on.

People would marvel at the sght of one. ( You could say to people : i distinctly saw you marvel at my iPhone. Jes, the iPhone used to be fit for the emperor of Queppu )

Now every lowlife can buy one at wallfart. There is nothing anymore that makes them stand out.

Maybe it's time for Prada to release a new one.

With the savings you can buy both iFart and Pull my Finger!

Yeah they could have easily said no. I'm not sure what the Wal-Mart sales predictions are or how much cut they get from each phone & contract combo sold but they both must multiply together to make it financially worthwhile.

I wonder how much they argued and cajoled about dropping the price, maybe Jobs said upfront "there will be no price drops or extra incentives...now let's talk business"

I'd love to get one, an iPhone (I love my iPod Touch) I really was wanting to buy the 3Jeez version when it came out but I'm gonna hang back until it's untethered from O2 so you can PAYG and they bring it up to a similar level of gadgetry & function on my current Nokia.

Stop icon, as that's what I've done with regards to purchasing said iPhone.

Its not that those of us on the coasts don't realize there is more to America, its just that we realize those portions of America don't really matter, other than as a large swath of land that must be passed over to get to somewhere real.

El-Reg hacktards get their predictions wrong (AGAIN!) so it's Wal-Marts fault???

No - I'm not affiliated with Wal-Mart - I'm not even a Merkin....

Someone fire the guy that wrote this article.

I want the old reg back.

It's about Apple & ATT having more outlets to screw consumers from.

Oh yes, I _must_ agree with you, because clearly Wal-mart shoppers frequently read and abide by the details of the papers they have to sign to buy TVs and other consumer electronics, evidenced by the massed merchandise in the "returned items" section at customer service?

Glad we had this chat.

fire symbol for people who're offended at the generalistation that people purchasing consumer electronics at 3am from walmart might not be the sharpest in the world.

Dear Lusby:

I guess it is time to cut off the food supply. BTW - our population is every bit as big as the coasts. It is just that you coasters are F@#$ wits. (I knew someone from NYC who thought that they could drive from Madison to Yellowstone in an afternoon...)

Even Paris knows that the fun spot is in the middle.

But FFS. The Register has become utterly useless in terms of signal to noise. And "Jesus Phone", STILL.

*sighs*

*removes bookmark*

iPhone 4 Gits

Free of Charge.

Mine is the leopard skin.

... as the radio design and data firmware would need totally rebuilding, as Verizon's network is a non-standard flavour of CDMA.

It's still an overpriced, functionality lacking piece of rubbish bought by fanboys for the picture of an apple on it and it's lack of common, useful functions like copy/paste, or a keyboard that can be used with fingers larger than children's.

LOL

They don't call 'em fly-over States for nothin'

Entitled to your opinion as you are I have to say that your comment about the keyboard is plain wrong. I have long and wider than average fingers (good piano playing hands, I can reach an octave plus two, shame my coordination is crap) but have never felt the iPhone virtual keyboard is difficult to use. Like any small keyboard, it takes a little use to get used to how it works. The keys are at least as big as your average phone keypad.

Would it be handy to be able to pair with a bluetooth keyboard? Well yes, but only for those rare occasions when I want two write more than a three line email, or SSH into a remote server to restart something. So that's about once a fortnight then. At best. I can live without it.

You're on the money with cut and paste though. And notes don't synch anywhere - not even with stickies on my Mac which is almost as bad as the lack of cut and paste. Also, something all the non-users haven't twigged - only certain applications respond if you switch from portrait to landscape mode (not good) and email isn't one of them (very bad).

See? It is possible for an iPhone user to get his head from out of his butt and make constructive criticism - but can you? Merry Christmas x

....the shock and horror to iBoners here in the UK if they appeared in Asda! Asda are owned by Walmart (some Asda stores in the UK were rebranded as Wlamarts) and already sell some 02 phones, it would be hilarious if they started selling the iBoners' fave fashion statement in probably the most down-market superstore short of Lidl!

I have an iPhone, I'm even posting on an iPhone now but how is this news?

Supermarkets have been selling mobiles in Europe for years!

Would El Registerio report this story I'd it were about the equally revolutionary Nokia N96 or one of the new funky blackberries? Or the LG touch screen phones?

To me this is just giving Apple free publicity!

Also, stop calling it "the Jesus phone". It's become a r

It's a decent smartphone but does it really need every minor tweak to it's US distribution channels covered in huge detail from a strangely negative piss taking angle?

Please turn down the volume of anti iphone/Apple articles it's getting rediculous

i don't have one and don't want one have played with a few but the tied in contracts to much for personal calls (plus i perfer vodafone) and i have a work smart phone for internet access and email so getting ones pointless. but i don't need to hear about every little thing that happens with them this article could have simply been

walmart start selling iphones not as cheap as believed will subsidaries start selling it (asda)

and thats all. the moaning about rumours that aren't ture (well durrr thats why the are rumours) was unnecessary

if it was a discussion on the social/political aspects of the elite smug i have an iphone i'm so cool (yes they do exsist if you have an iphone and you think i don't know any one whose scug about owning am iphone thats cause it's you) now that the huddled masses can get them more easily though a mass distribution system (and how this will dilute apples brand images or elite and cool) well that may have been insightful (it will clearly lose it's social status if every one has one and something else we have to take it's place, the problem for apple is will the over popularity. )

for balance i got my first apple product recently it was a second hand 2 gig nano i now keep in my work laptop bag to hide the noise of 2000+ servers when working in the company datacentre. it was given to me when my friend got himself a iphone 3g which is used maining to check the footie scores and fantasy stats while in the pub on the weekend.

any way point is more tech news/social poliitical commentary less ranting cause you didn't get a jesus phone for christmas.

thanks