WalMart Does the iPhone

Tomorrow, December 28^th is scheduled to be the first day Walmart starts selling the iPhone. It probably couldn’t happen at a better time as I have managed to back over my cellphone this morning after failing to notice it had feel off.

Walmart will be offering the 8GB iPhone for $197, just two dollars short of Apple Store and AT&T price and not the rumored $97 price that has been burning up the blogs spectulating on the price. Unfortinately you will still have to sign-up for two year service agreement to get the iPhone.  I’m not a fan of the long contracts, a long contract is just agreement to accept poor customer support. Walmart has always push customer satisfaction and maybe two years won’t be that bad.

The megamerchant from Arkansas might be able pull to make an honest run off with the iPhone. Walmart penetration into so many markets might take the iPhone sells to new levels in as we go into 2009. While no everyone is close enough to shop at an Apple Store, there will always be a Walmart in just about every ZIP code.

There is one little thing I find missing from my iPod touch that is also missing from the iPhone, Cut and Paste. I write my blog sometimes on the iPod and find myself limping through the process without being able to copy a link or quote. I think is Steve Jobs came out in one of his famous product announcements would say that the iPhone now had Cut and Paste added the core the crowd would go wild just on that improvement alone. The Cut and Paste function is so much the part of everyday computing that any data device without it is partially functional. There are so many great applications out for the iPhone platform, including Google Docs that deserve copy function and make it easier to work from anywhere.