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Apple announces iPhone 3G price cut to $99!

By: , IntoMobile
Monday, June 8th, 2009 at 3:21 PM

iphone-3g-black-1The first-generation iPhone was essentially cast aside when the iPhone 3G hit market. As the ugly-duckling of the iPhone lineup, the original iPhone was left to suffer an extended decline into obsolete-dom. But, with the introduction of the latest iPhone flagship, the iPhone 3GS, Apple isn’t putting its iPhone 3G out to pasture. Instead, Apple will relegate the current-generation iPhone 3G to entry-level status as a $99 8GB iPhone 3G. It seems all those rumors of a cheaper-priced iPhone coming down Apple’s product pipeline were more fairly spot on. 

Rather than kill off the iPhone 3G market, Apple has apparently decided to milk any revenues still trapped in the iPhone 3G. Starting today, June 8th, Apple is shipping the 8GB iPhone 3G in Black and White color schemes for the almost unbeatable price of $99. The new iPhone 3GS starts at $199 for the 16GB model, and costs up to $299 for the 32GB model. That would put the iPhone 3G in a good position to undercut many of the iPhone’s competitors, giving the iPhone brand an edge in an increasingly crowded market. 

What non-iPhone owner out there wouldn’t at least briefly consider a $99 iPhone 3G?

Find the $99 8GB iPhone 3G here.

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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • AC

    “What non-iPhone owner out there wouldn’t at least briefly consider a $99 iPhone 3G?”

    Me.

    Why?

    One word:

    “Contract”.

  • Servizi Fotografici

    The Iphone has never made me go mad, and I have never seen it necessary in have a phone with all these freaky functions …. the thing that puts me of is that it even costs more than a good laptop.

  • Duane in SV

    What good laptop cost less than $99 – the price of the iPhone 3G? Even the more expensive iPhone 3G [S], what good laptop cost less than $199? You make no sense. “Freaky functions” – you sound like the old man who is afraid of that new fangled moving picture device, the DVR.

  • Conan M

    I would like to know how I can get the iPhone 3G seeing that I live in Namibia? Do respond

  • Ayenismyname

    4G for me is way better than 3G. 3G will depreciate asap. just invest to something better like 4G. :)