Best Buy offering free iPhone 3GS with contract today

December 9, 2010 9:03 PM
Devindra Hardawar
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Now here’s a way to build some quick publicity (and quickly clear out some old stock). Best Buy will be offering the 8-gigabyte iPhone 3GS for free with a two-year AT&T contract later today (December 10), Engadget reports.

The deal, which will only last one day, certainly isn’t meant for smartphone power users. The iPhone 3GS is one generation behind the iPhone 4. And with 8-gigabytes of storage on board, it’s not going to be the best option for storing your music collection and having room left over for taking photos and videos. But still — it’s a free iPhone!

The deal follows Radio Shack’s offer of the first iPhone sale in history — $50 off the 16GB and 32GB iPhone 4 (and a mere $49 for the 8GB iPhone 3GS). Radio Shack’s deal ends December 11.

There’s a lot we can read into Best Buy’s offer. Sure, the retailer could just be looking to spice up sales leading up to the holidays. It could also potentially make a killing off accessories from customers overjoyed with their shiny free iPhone. But it also seems clear that Best Buy is clearing out its stock for something, and that could very well be the Verizon iPhone.

  • http://www.mobilecubix.com/services/application-dev/ipad-developer/ iPad Developer

    Its biggest selling point were the increased speed, better camera, compass and the 32gb capacity for the real movie collectors. But unlike the previous upgrade, not everything was great this time around.

  • http://www.venturebeat.com Anthony Ha

    The idea of being of being stuck with a 2-year AT&T contract on a 3GS sounds insane right now. Or at least very unpleasant.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G2ES7KXEDNVAKB3JMZQVVVJXBA Olala

    That is only a joke from Radio Shack and Best buy,When I get there both the store said they sold out, and no inventory at all. I went there on 12/10/10.Tricky advertising try draw public to their store but no inventory at all.Don't trust this 2 store anymore.

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