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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/26/walmart_announces_iphone_sales/

Walmart's Jesus Phone no better, no worse

Save two bucks!

By Rik Myslewski in San Francisco

Posted in Data Centre, 26th December 2008 19:10 GMT

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Mercilessly squashing any vestiges of what rumors remained of a $99 iPhone [1], the megamall-master Walmart today let the world know that, yes, they will be offering the Jesus Phone to the world beginning on Sunday, but no, they won't be adding a $99 super-savior to the mix.

Yawn...

Walmart will sell the ubiquitous black 8GB iPhone for $197, and the 16GB unit in either black or white for $297. The service agreement will be the same old, same old: two years with AT&T.

Walmart iPhone flyer

Thanks, Skippy Thorson [2], for the printed proof

All this 'Phoney foreplay, and all we get is a savings of two measley bucks? Merry %$#@!ing Christmas, Sam Walton [3].

Maybe it's now time to start another unsubstantiated rumor. How about that the much-reported iPhone nano [4] is actually the $99 iPhone? That speculation should have sufficient legs to last until Phil Schiller's appearance [5] on January 6th at Macworld Expo [6], don't you think?

One final note on this sad saga of dashed dreams: Computerworld - when reporting [7] on l'affaire Walmart - said that the middle-American retailer "is expected to help Apple's efforts to reach conservative shoppers."

What, don't progressives, libertarians, and Greens also want to "Save money" and "Live better"?