Is Best Buy becoming the place to get mobile phones?

In mid-August, Best Buy and Apple announced that Best Buy would sell the 3G iPhone, starting September 7th. Now, The Boy Genius Report says that Best Buy will also get the Palm Treo Pro, RIM BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 and T-Mobile G1. Last May, Best Buy invested more than $2 billion to buy 50% of the Carphone Warehouse, the biggest seller of mobile phones in Europe. Go to any High Street (shopping area) in the UK, and you'll see one or more Carphone Warehouse stores there. They compete successfully with mobile operator-owned stores across Europe. Best Buy is tapping into the merchandising knowledge of Carphone Warehouse (with which it has had a joint marketing venture since 2006) to expand its mobile presence in the U.S., and it seems to be succeeding in its goal to become the place to go for hot new phones.