T-Mobile G1 coming to Walmart for $148.88

by Darren Murph posted Oct 28th 2008 at 11:58AM

Well, now isn't this something? Best Buy has its fancy little iPhone 3G, but it'll be Wally World offering up the G1 outside of official T-Mobile outlets. As we'd heard yesterday, 550 Walmart stores across the country will begin selling the Android-powered handset beginning tomorrow, and folks who opt to pick one up here versus a traditional T-Mob store will save $31.11. Yep -- according to company spokeswoman Melissa O'Brien, the new / upgrade-eligible customer price for a Walmart-sourced G1 will be just $148.88 with a 2-year agreement. Wait, what? You already purchased your G1 at the full price? They always said the early bird pays the premium... or something along those lines.

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, Android

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Max @ Oct 28th 2008 12:21PM

31 dollars in savings isn't worth it in exchange for having to support Walmart.

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infinityvoid @ Oct 29th 2008 11:55AM

Lol, was about to post up the exact same thing. Great minds think alike. =D

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icepop4who @ Nov 13th 2008 12:16AM

I don't know about the grudge against walmart, but i hear it a lot. Walmart does more good for the economy than any other company, ever. They created loads of jobs stateside and internationally. They also increased consumer spending, and thus fueling the economy. As the state of economy in the US right now, I would say a few more Walmarts is exactly what we need.

On a related note, it seems like people hate supporting large corporations. If you ever learned anything about economics, you would know that major corporation does a lot more good than they do "harm." Large corporations create jobs for people domestically and internationally, provide better goods at cheaper prices for people, and are way more important to the economy than "mom 'n pop" stores. Globalization and capitalism is what will save the economy for the US and the world.

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Kris @ Oct 28th 2008 1:33PM

I saw G1 dummy phones in the mobile phone section at Best Buy in Southcenter (Tukwila, Wash.) on Sunday. No pricing info. So, um, I guess Wally World ain't the only ones ...

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ahmed @ Oct 29th 2008 1:13PM

i called to of my local walmart's, the one in glendora, ca and azusa,ca both said yes they are getting it, but dont have it yet, they said they were told this week, but are not sure.

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Jason @ Nov 1st 2008 4:23PM

Why would anyone opt to have a Wal-Mart employee mess with their device/account rather than a T-Mobile Rep? $31 ain't worth it.

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nahtass @ Nov 12th 2008 6:25PM

Just some FYI form the "friendly" T-Mob peeps:

If you get a Wally-G1 they will not support it. Both Wally and T-Mob will tell you to go to the other place for fix, repair, support, replace.

My response: Your company does not support anything anyway. And that is a message to anyone else who has had to lick ball sweat from the BBerry staff at T-Mob to get anything done.

This may not be the universal consensus, but my local (pr!ck) sales store guy let me know.

C'mon white space? But seriously folks...when are the mobile providers going to catch up and turn into dumb-pipes and let me get my own hardware? What is with all of the velvet ropes? These phones are still hacked and unlocked.

--Nahtass

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