Best Buy announces free smartphone offer for the holidays

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Big box retailer Best Buy has announced a new promotion aimed at potential smartphone purchasers this holiday season. Citing the success of its Free Phone Fridays campaign, BB will be offering “a minimum of four free smart phones (one from each carrier) in all Best Buy stores, in all Best Buy Mobile specialty stores and online” through the holiday shopping season. Currently, Best Buy’s website has fourteen smartphones listed with a $0 price tag, including HTC’s DROID Incredible and Aria, LG’s Optiums S and T, BlackBerry’s Curve 9300, and Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10.

“We were excited by the amount of consumer interest we received around our ‘Free Phone Fridays’ promotion in October, so we wanted to do it again only bigger,” said Best Buy Mobile’s president, Shawn Score. “People want smart phones and we couldn’t think of a better way to end the year for our customers than to offer free devices every day in December.”

As with most free phone promotions, a new or upgraded activation with a signed two-year contract is required.

Read [Press Release] Read [Free Phone Site]

10 Comments
  • http://twitter.com/ustna Aaron Rooney

    Wow! That is a VERY small Best Buy…

    • britwash

      That’s because it’s a Best Buy Mobile.

      • fredd0

        no, its because it is a stand alone (mall) Best Buy Mobile. Best Buy Mobile Stores are inside of Best Buy Stores, too.

  • Donny

    Is that the one under Hancock in Chi-town?

  • Anonymous

    2 for 1 androids anyone?

    • Anonymous

      so this is how they gain marketshare and activation rates. they always saying they android is outselling everything but in reality they always give them away. amazon its only a penny.

  • Anonymous

    Sweet shoes….

  • Anonymous

    Boy,
    I would pick up two and I know several friends and family that would jump on this,

    IF the iPhone 4 were offered.

    Wonder if it will happen??

  • Sam

    Confused- so for example you want the Incredible- do you need to be eligible for an upgrade or simply just extend your current Verizon contract?

  • I3t

    Dam… I wish we had Best Buys here in South Korea. All of our products stays at the same price all year around until something better comes along…. From samsung and lg ( thanks to these folks our country has no other mobile compeitors other than the iphone)

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