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Friday June 12, 2009
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Afraid of dumping a couple hundred bucks into a shiny new iPhone 3G S, only to have the handset crap out you a few months later? When the eagerly awaited handset goes on sale on Friday, mega retailer Best Buy will be offering up insurance on the device for the weary among us.
Best Buy will be offering Geek Squad Black Tie Protection for the device on top of Apple's two-year extended AppleCare warranty--but I'll cost you. The retailer is expected to charge $15 a month for the coverage plan--that's up from the standard $7 to $10 for other phone models.
No one ever said peace of mind was cheap.
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June 13, 2009 9:44 AM
I had a computer problem two years ago and called Geek Squad. They charged me $100.00 and failed to fix the problem with the computer. I wouldn't buy anythiong from Best Buy that depended on Geek Squad for a fix or support!
June 13, 2009 2:23 PM
check out Apple insurance plan.Around $70/year after the first year, They don't fix they replace unlike best buy that can leave you without a phone for some time
June 13, 2009 10:22 PM
Apple Care is the BEST. My Iphone died, out of warranty, and being a second owner. They overnited prepaid my bad phone to them and then sent a overnight replacement phone as soon as they received mine. Forget the Geek Squad, full time gamers, part time "IT" wannabee's that would jump on any entry level position at anyplace at minimum wage to get away from BB.
June 13, 2009 11:32 PM
"Geek Squad" How ironic, name fits well!!!!
June 14, 2009 7:53 AM
BEST BUYS GEEK SQUAD IS NOTHING BUT A JOKE!! THEY TELL YOU ONE THING AND THEN WHEN THEY GET READY TO DO THE JOB, THEY CALL YOU AND TELL YOU THAT THEY CANT DO THE JOB AND HALF OF THE EMPLOYEES THAT WORK FOR GEEK SQUAD DONT KNOW HALF AS THEY SAY THEY DO!! PLEASE!! PLEASE!! DONT FOOL WITH GEEK SQUAD BECAUSE THEY NEED MORE TRAINING!!! THEY ARE NOT PROFESSIONAL AT ALL!!!!
June 15, 2009 7:54 AM
Only buy the i phone from the At & T store or on line form the At&t customer sales center.. Best Buy will not back up anything..
June 21, 2009 9:02 AM
We have Apple iphone 3gs 32gb for $350usd...
1)Flash player support
2)Quick back option without going to home screen while switching between apps.
3)File browsing and storing
4)Option to attach images, file etc from email app itself.
5)Multiple signature options
6)Manual rotate gesture option
7)Notes app should be more powerful word process (fonts, text size etc)
8)All Grouping of contacts for test message e.g. friend and family groups.
9)App for grouping key social networking sites(for posting universal photos, text to all social networking sites together.
10) Auto spell check in safari browser (like mozilla) when adding text in twitter, facebook leaving comments at blog etc.
11)Build in Flash in camera for night photo shot
12) Front facing camera for video Chat
13) Use cover flow for using multitasking third party apps (limit to 5 apps, not to drain the battery life)
14)Thin quick time player app to run video downloaded from web.
15)Group notification alert or not attended tasks(missed MMS, SMS, PHONE, Chat message, meeting, event etc)on single screen.
Email: tlainc@hotmail.com
August 30, 2009 8:33 PM
some people don't know the difference between extended warranty plane and insurance.