Best Buy announced this morning that it will begin selling Apple's iPhone 3G Sept. 7 in all 970 stores nationwide and in its smaller Best Buy Mobile retail outlets. This is the first national chain to be cut into the iPhone market since the device was introduced in 2007. The deal is a big victory for Best Buy, which has been moving heavily into the cell phone market recently. The nationwide chain just completed a two-year roll out of the Best Buy Mobile brand into all of its stores and now boasts 95 devices from nine carriers.
This is all good news for iPhone fanatics who are still playing the waiting game to get their hands on the device. AT&T stores report , and some Apple stores in New York still have people lining up for one to two hours. Best Buy is hoping the iPhone will attract more customers during the holiday season, and the deal will surely help Apple reach its goal of selling 10 million iPhones. But if Apple can barely keep AT&T stores and its own stores in stock, it seems unlikely that it can handle supplying one of the largest electronics retailers in the country.
