Starting today through Saturday, January 3rd, the iPhone 3G will be on sale at Best Buy Mobile locations for $189.99 for the 8GB and $289.99 for the 16GB model. While only a $10 savings, this is the lowest price available in the US. This will even best the Walmart price. Reward Zone members will receive double reward zone points as part of their purchase. Of course, these prices do require a 2-year commitment.
The time for Best Buy to begin selling iPhone 3G's in their stores is drawing near - you now have only a couple of days to wait before you can saunter into your local Best Buy to be misinformed by salespeople who rarely know much about Apple products. Be sure to do your research ahead of time - both Apple's and AT&T's sites have lots of good information on how to get ready for your iPhone 3G purchase. Beware of one thing at Best Buy -
Gizmodo talks about some extra services offered by the Geek Squad when you purchase some accessory packages. These extra services include setting up your new iPhone 3G and getting your email up and running. I wouldn't recommend you take advantage of these services either - doing both is incredibly easy and already well-documented by Apple
here and
here .
Yesterday, I mentioned that TUAW had the scoop on Spore for the iPhone, but EA has officially confirmed that they are working on 9 more games in addition to Spore for the iPhone.
According to Macworld , those other 9 games are Yahtzee Adventures, EA Mini Golf, Lemonade Tycoon, Mahjong, Monopoly: Here & Now The World Edition, SimCity, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09, Need for Speed Undercover and The Sims 3. That's a lot heading our way - start saving your pennies now to indulge in some game purchases from the App Store!
Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com, has been the source for most of the Apple product rumors surrounding the September 9 event. He's elaborated a bit more on the rumored iTunes enhancements
in his blog . While we don't see a reference to faster iPhone syncing to cure those back-ups that can take up to several hours for some users, it does sound like more HD content will be coming and available to all of us without an Apple TV at home. I often use my iPhone as a media source to watch movies rented from iTunes through our home entertainment system and I'd love to watch them in full HD glory. I hope Kevin's right on this one (and that the iPhone will be capable of putting out that HD video)! [Via
TUAW ]
