Well, not really that bargain-basement, but certainly a good discount. Wal-Mart has confirmed that on Wednesday, its stores will start begin selling the T-Mobile G1 phone at a discounted price ... $148.88 with a 2-year agreement (natch). This is $31.11 off the regular price, but more impressively, it's slightly more than 25% off.I wrote about this earlier, but at the time it was still just a rumor, and the target date was November 24th. It's certainly unusual for a new gadget to be marked down so quickly.
However, this new info came directly from Wal-Mart spokeswoman Melissa O'Brien, so it's genuine. The original date of late November, now that was a long wait (if you really want a T-Mobile G1, that is), but Wednesday? Pshaw, that's nothing.
As we all know, the G1 is the first Android phone, and it's been in high demand (though not iPhone-ish-type demand). Now what we don't know is why Wal-Mart insists on using "8s" for all their prices instead of the 99 or 95 everyone else does.
We also don't know if any early adopters will be really ticked about this. Obviously (or hopefully), it's not enough to start a lawsuit (such as the iPhone's price discrimination lawsuit), but some people are really cheap, er frugal. Fortunately $31.11 isn't much to get upset over.
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