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24 May 2010 22:07

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Tech: Wal-Mart cuts the iPhone’s price, just in time for a new phone

  • $97 for the iPhone 3GS – just before the 4G launch source

29 Jun 2009 09:30

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Tech: The iPhone 3GS comes in an unintentional new color: Pink

The phones apparently get so hot that you can’t hold it up to your face, and there have been reports of discoloration like this. source

21 Jun 2009 20:38

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Tech: Apple is really sorry that you can’t activate your iPhone. Here’s $30.

  • problem Since Friday’s launch of the iPhone 3GS, the activation process has been spotty at best and completely unusable at worst. It’s not as bad as last year, when the servers completely crashed on people wanting to activate an iPhone 3G.
  • response To make up for the torrent of new iPhone activations (500,000 by one analyst’s count), Apple is making it up to users by offering a $30 iTunes Store credit to those stuck without a working phone for the weekend. Aww, how nice. source

19 Jun 2009 09:42

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Tech: Reminder: Today is iPhone New Year’s. (WWDC was iPhone Christmas)

  • eight countries get the new iPhone 3GS today, including the U.S.
  • 250 people waited patiently in line at an Apple store in NYC source