Best Buy will be the first national retailer to sell Apple Inc.’s iPhone in the United States. It will make it’s debut in its 970 stores in the United States beginning on Sept. 7.

About 600 of these stores will also showcase the handset, priced at $199 to $299 USD, in their Apple mini-shops. Stand-alone Best Buy Mobile shops, which have opened in about 15 American cities, will also sell the device, which requires a two-year contract with the carrier AT&T to operate.

Apple is yet again broadening their distribution channels. Whatever happened to exclusivity? End goal of course is to produce more sales and hopefully achieving their goal of selling 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008.

Sunny Shum, Your Industry Insider

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(Source: New York Times)