Best Buy is scheduled to start selling Apple’s iPhone on September 7. This is huge for Best Buy because it makes them the first independent retailer to be allowed to do this and it makes them the first U.S. retailer to do so.
Best Buy already had an inside track due to the fact that they sell Apple Mac computers and iPods. However, there was still a lot of jumping through hoops to get AT&T and Apple to feel warm and fuzzy about the arrangement.
Go to Best Buy, pick out your 8GB or 16GB iPhone, sign a 2 year contract with AT&T and you are in business. I am not so crazy about the AT&T part, but making a purchase at Best Buy will be much easier than waiting in lines at one of AT&T or Apple’s stores – those lines are crazy!