Wal-Mart to Sell $99 4GB iPhone?

[hanyal]

Looks fake to me. The Walmart logo looks cloned on to the page, as its background is a different shade of white than the rest of the page.

And in other news: Apple to sell PowerPC G3 netbook exclusively at Sams Club for US$9.99 with the purchase of 1000 rolls of toilet paper.

 

[Bakey]

But I don't feel like I need to take a shower everytime I leave a Starbucks.

I know we're digressing here... But seriously, are they that bad?

 

[Warbrain]

While that is the current Walmart logo - forget that it's losing the star - it doesn't look like the Walmart logo is properly placed. If you look at the at&t logo and the Walmart logo they don't line up at all. Even on an angle they would match up but the Walmart logo is slightly higher than the at&t one.

The possibility seems feasible, this picture does not.

 

[fleshman03]

But I don't feel like I need to take a shower everytime I leave a Starbucks.

Or have to wait a half hour in line to pay for one bottle of soda.

Fact 1: A lot of people have replaced their iPod and Cell phone with an iPhone and were glad to do so.

Fact 2: Apple has sold a ton of iPod Shuffles, many to people for whom the shuffle is still their only iPod.

I'll let you guys figure it out from here...

How does watching movies or video podcasts work on that? Installed applications all working properly? Email must be fun!

The screen and video functions dictate more than 3.5gb.

 

[csmitty]

You're serious, right? Who has only 4gb of music? I don't know many college students who fall in that range. Maybe High School students? Plenty of us shop at Walmart too. (As much as we hate it.)

Now add a movie or two and 3.5gb is nowhere near enough storage. I had a hard enough time going from a 32 gb iPod to a 16gb touch. When I bought the iPod, I didn't think I'd ever touch 15gb, let alone 32. I now have over 60 gb of movies...

It'd actually be like 3.01 GB of storage. my 8GB shows only 7.01, which sucks. should have just said it was a 7GB iphone.

 

[Tarponsprings]

This is perfect...AT&T's service is lousy as it is, imagine how bad it will be with millions of new 4gb Walmart users overloading the network. Add to that the 12,000 jobs that AT&T is cutting, and we will all be using pay phones to communicate.

 

[Warbrain]

It'd actually be like 3.01 GB of storage. my 8GB shows only 7.01, which sucks. should have just said it was a 7GB iphone.

No, people need to understand that there are different measurements for storage space. Manufacturers use the 1000 MB = 1 GB measure, developers use 1024 MB = 1 GB.

I may have used the wrong fields for who uses what but that's the basic concept.

 

[oldMac]

Why after Christmas?

From a marketing perspective, it seems highly unlikely that they would launch this 3 days after Christmas. Surely they could have pulled the deal and training together to get this out a month before Christmas and dramatically multiply their sales.

 

[fleshman03]

It'd actually be like 3.01 GB of storage. my 8GB shows only 7.01, which sucks. should have just said it was a 7GB iphone.

I just looked it up. It's 3.73 on a 4gb iPhone. The larger the size, the larger the discrepancy.

Plus - I think the OS grew a little bit in size.

From a marketing perspective, it seems highly unlikely that they would launch this 3 days after Christmas. Surely they could have pulled the deal and training together to get this out a month before Christmas and dramatically multiply their sales.

To announce it at MWSF? Just a guess.

 

[robman8023]

Agreed(ish). I'm sick and tired of Apple using RAM as a delineating factor in the massive price differences between models. iPod Touchs (or Touches?) and iPhones are both very different in price just because of a few Gbs of RAM.

You think the only difference between an iPod Touch and an iPhone is the amount of RAM...or am I misreading this post?

The cellular communications package in the iPhone sets it apart as well.

 

[Warbrain]

If this truly pans out to be the case, at&t better offer a cheaper data plan for this. I wouldn't want to shell out 100 bucks for a 4 GB iPhone and have to pay the huge data tariff.

 

[bytethese]

I've heard Family Dollar is going to sell a 1GB version.

What's next, I walk by on Canal Street and see a 256MB version for $10??

 

[Small White Car]

How does watching movies or video podcasts work on that? Installed applications all working properly? Email must be fun!

The screen and video functions dictate more than 3.5gb.

I'm pretty sure you didn't understand my post.

 

[Kar98]

this is a major positive for the iphone. the people that would buy this from wlamart have no need for a 8GB or 16GB iphone so a 4GB isnt a complete surprise. Granted..$100 off the price isnt a huge deal when you look at the total cost over the two years (more expensive than a new alum macbook), but i think opening the iphone up to new vendors will only benefit apple.

Uh....how about St. Jobs' recent assertion that he doesn't give a wet fart about potential buyers below a certain threshold?

On on hand, Apple chooses not to cater to people who want to spend less than $800 on a computer, on the other hand, a $99 Walmart phone?

I have difficulties believing that.

 

[Small White Car]

Looks fake to me. The Walmart logo looks cloned on to the page, as its background is a different shade of white than the rest of the page.

And how do you think this sort of document is made? Someone opens up a Word file and drops a JPEG of the logo on the first page. That's a perfectly normal effect of doing that.

 

[CrackedButter]

You're serious, right? Who has only 4gb of music? I don't know many college students who fall in that range. Maybe High School students? Plenty of us shop at Walmart too. (As much as we hate it.)

I have over 20GB of music and none of it is on my iTouch (or my future iPhone), your usage may vary however because not very body will buy one to put music on it.

I use my iTouch as a PDA with the music/podcasts/video as a bonus feature.

 

[mccldwll]

"But I don't feel like I need to take a shower everytime I leave a Starbucks."

I know we're digressing here... But seriously, are they that bad?

That really is the feeling I get leaving a Walmart. Not that they're dirty, just the overall experience is something I want to wash off. Sam's Club feels the same. I don't feel that way leaving a Target, or a Costco.

 

[AppleMojo]

You're serious, right? Who has only 4gb of music? I don't know many college students who fall in that range. Maybe High School students? Plenty of us shop at Walmart too. (As much as we hate it.)

Now add a movie or two and 3.5gb is nowhere near enough storage. I had a hard enough time going from a 32 gb iPod to a 16gb touch. When I bought the iPod, I didn't think I'd ever touch 15gb, let alone 32. I now have over 60 gb of movies...

I imagine he was quite serious... I have gigs of music, but don't own an iPod because I don't care to run around with little buds hanging out of my head.

I'll listen to music while I work in the office or in the living room with our Apple TV, but I have no personal need to listen to music or watch movies on a phone.

I would however use it as a telephone with visual voicemail, email and the 10,000 apps that are available for it.

 

[ogbuke]

Didn't they stop making 4 gb, why would they even bring it back?

 

[talkingfuture]

I'd like to see the 4GB model resurrected as a "Pay As You Go" model. Here in the UK the PAYG is just too expensive for a phone.

 

[Gee4orce]

I think this would be a very appealing product for a certain segment of the market - not everybody has tens of gigs of music you know. In fact, I'd wager that MOST people (at least, aged 35+, an especially women) posses less than 100 albums, of which only a few will have been ripped to their computers.

A 4GB limit is no barrier to people like that - they aren't looking to put their music in it anyway, and even if they did you can fit most of 100 almbums on to 4GB. But what they want is to get all the cool iPhone benefits like GPS maps, email, Safari, the App Store, games, etc...

At $99 you'd better hope that they're making plenty of these things.

The reason the 4GB didn't sell well at first was that the early adopters were precisely those people who do have loads of digital music and photos and movies. It was also too expensive to be a value proposition - but at $99 it's a no-brainer.

 

[studlybw]

Here we go

Could you imagine the amount of people who would get trampled the first day Walmart sold iPhones?!?!
No thanks Walmart. My life's worth the extra money to buy the phone at an Apple or AT&T store.

 

[ImAlwaysRight]

AWESOME! What's next, $399 MacBooks? Apple could rule the world if it really wanted to.

However, I still prefer the elitist mentality because it makes me feel more special.

 

[AppleMojo]

Uh....how about St. Jobs' recent assertion that he doesn't give a wet fart about potential buyers below a certain threshold?

On on hand, Apple chooses not to cater to people who want to spend less than $800 on a computer, on the other hand, a $99 Walmart phone?

I have difficulties believing that.

$599.00 = Mac Mini = Computer

Unless you think that doesn't count because it won't come with an mp3 player, printer, coffee mug, cheap digital camera, 200 shareware apps and serious depreciation?

 

[mccldwll]

Uh....how about St. Jobs' recent assertion that he doesn't give a wet fart about potential buyers below a certain threshold?
On on hand, Apple chooses not to cater to people who want to spend less than $800 on a computer, on the other hand, a $99 Walmart phone?
I have difficulties believing that.

An 8GB iPhone is roughly a $500 phone, with subsidies (and more with accessories shares/itunes/apps). When 16GB becomes the $199 to $229 model, $99-$149 for the 8GB is very possible, even probable.