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Ad suggests free iPhone 3GS at Best Buy Mobile on Aug 22

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 19th, 2011)

TechBuffalo has posted a photo of what appears to be a genuine ad, announcing that the iPhone 3GS will be free with a two year contract at Best Buy Mobile stores on Monday, August 22. This is the second time Best Buy has offered the iPhone 3GS for free with a two-year contract. The first was ...

iPhone resellers eagerly await iPhone 5

by Mike Schramm (Aug 10th, 2011)

When you consider that there are four different versions of iPhones out there (original, 3G, 3GS, and 4), and all of them have sold a ton of units, it's clear that there are a whole lot of used iPhones around. That's probably why, as GigaOm reports, iPhone resellers are very excited for another ...

3 Sweden offers half-price sale on iPhone 3GS contract

by Steven Sande (Aug 4th, 2011)

Tired of expensive mobile phone contracts? Maybe you should move to Sweden, where mobile provider 3 Sweden is offering a half-off sale on a two-year contract for an iPhone 3GS. The new pricing makes a "3 Surf" package 99 krona or about $15.36 a month, with a more capable "3 Pott" package ...

Apple will reportedly re-launch unlocked iPhone 3GS in India

by Mike Schramm (Jun 30th, 2011)

Indian website IT Pro says it's heard from Apple that the company will be relaunching the iPhone 3GS in an unlocked model to keep up with Indian demand for an Apple handheld. Back when the 3GS was first introduced in India, it was only available through a few carriers. Now, demand for iPhones ...

Analyst: the cheap iPhone will be a free 3GS

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 29th, 2011)

Analysts really want Apple to enter the low-price smartphone market. So much so, they can't stop talking about this rumored cheap model. The latest analyst to chime in on this topic is Mike Abramsky of RBC Capital. He predicts Apple will release a cheap iPhone model when the iPhone 5 debuts. It ...

T-Mobile now home to 1 million iPhones

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 23rd, 2011)

When talking to 9to5Mac, a T-Mobile spokesperson offered up a tidbit of information that suggests the #4 wireless carrier, which does not sell the popular Apple smartphone, is home to over a million iPhones. Most of the devices are older iPhone models, though a fair amount of customers have ...

iPhone 101: Using Voice Control

by Dave Caolo (Jun 10th, 2011)

While we wait for iOS 5 to deliver cool new features, here's a look at Voice Control, a feature introduced with the iPhone 3GS model. There are three types of Voice Control commands: phone, music and other. Here's how to use each. Launching Voice Control Of course, you can't use Voice Control ...

Video of iOS 5 on an iPhone 3GS and a 4 side by side

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 9th, 2011)

The folks at AppleRumors Italia did a side-by-side video comparison of iOS 5 on both the iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4. As you can see in the video, the two models perform similarly with only a small amount of lag apparent on the iPhone 3GS during certain tasks, like loading a complex web ...

iOS 5 rumor: iPhone 3GS to drop off supported list?

by Michael Grothaus (May 24th, 2011)

Normally we don't give much credence to a single tweet pertaining to rumors about the next iPhone, but this one comes from Eldar Murtazin, editor-in-chief of mobile phone blog Mobile-Review. Murtazin has a history of accurately predicting mobile phone rumors and in this tweet says the iPhone 3GS ...

iPhone dev-team releases untethered redsn0w jailbreak for iOS 4.3.2, iPad 2 not included

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 19th, 2011)

The iPhone dev-team released an untethered jailbreak for iOS owners running Apple's latest 4.3.2 firmware. Good news for jailbreakers as Apple did not patch the hole discovered by @i0n1c. The code for this exploit was used in the untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 and was easily ported over to ...

Problems syncing after iOS 4.3? It might be your photos

by David Winograd (Mar 9th, 2011)

I just updated to iOS 4.3 on my iPhone, which is connected to a MacBook Pro, and when the installation was done, I tried to sync. The sync stalled at step four of four on syncing photos, with a message telling me that the sync could not complete because "The required file cannot be found." I ...

iPhone 4 officially coming to Korea's SK Telecom on March 16

by Chris Ward (Mar 9th, 2011)

SK Telecom has now set March 16 as the date for its launch of the iPhone 4 in Korea. After revealing earlier this year that it was to finally sell the iPhone 4 in addition to rival network KT corp, Korea's largest wireless carrier confirmed in a press release that pre-registrations opened ...

AT&T highlights $49 iPhone 3GS in new TV ad

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 15th, 2011)

AT&T is wielding a new weapon in its fight against Verizon Wireless: the iPhone 3GS. In the carrier's latest advertisement, the almost 20-month old handset and its $49 price tag is dangled in front of customers as a cheap alternative to the iPhone 4. Price-wise, the iPhone 3GS lets customers ...

Hey, your iPhone's untied!

by Rick Martin (Jan 10th, 2011)

In the market for a shoe-phone? iShoes are funky little iPhone cases coming out of Asia that make your phone look like a tiny, somewhat flattened-out sneaker. Recently available for purchase from Japan-based vendor Strapya, iShoes are made by Korean company Play Hello. These colorful cases seem ...

TekTrak phone locator offers two-use free version

by Michael Terretta (Jan 5th, 2011)

Just because Apple released a Find My iPhone app and then made it free, doesn't mean there isn't room for a little friendly competition. TekTrak originally took on Apple's built-in iPhone location service by offering TekTrak Pro at a one-time US$4.99 price point as opposed to Mobile Me's $99 ...