TECH – Real Cost of iPhone 3GS: About $118 More Than You Think

By Wilson Rothman, Credit – Gizmondo.com

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It’s hardly been in the open for 3 hours and already the 3GS is incurring wrath among iPhone devotees: An upgrade may cost you $399 for the 32GB or $299 for the 16GB, if you’re not eligible for a new plan.

How do you qualify for the announced pricing? New customer, new line of service, presumably contract renewal, that sort of thing. Last year, people who owned iPhone Numero Uno got a shoo-in, but apparently that’s not the deal now. To add insult to injury, you’ll even have to pay an $18 upgrade fee to jump from 3G to 3GS.

Verbiage from some customer mailing:

As a valued AT&T customer, AT&T can offer you an early iPhone upgrade with a new 2-yr commitment and an $18 upgrade fee. You may qualify for a standard iPhone upgrade on 07/12/2009.
$299.00* – 8GB iPhone 3G (black)
$399.00* – 16GB iPhone 3G S (black or white)
$499.00* – 32GB iPhone 3G S (black or white)

[Wirelessinfo.com; David Chartier on Twitter; other various tips and sources]

Credit – Gizmondo.com

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TECH – WWDC 2009 iPhone 3.0 App Roundup

By Adam Frucci, Credit – Gizmodo.com

We saw a parade of developers showing off fancy new iPhone 3.0 apps on stage today. Lets take a look at what was unveiled, shall we?

TomTom Turn-by-Turn Directions—Not only did TomTom announce an app for turn-by-turn directions, but they also announced an accessory for the iPhone that sticks to your windshield. It’s got a speaker and mic built in for the voice to tell you directions and you to talk to it to ask for directions while also enhancing the GPS signal. Coming this summer.

ScrollMotion’s Iceberg Book Store—This is a Kindle competitor that’ll offer over 1,000,000 books for download at launch, including textbooks by Houton Mifflin, Harcourt and McGraw Hill, as well as 50 magazines and 170 daily newspapers.

AirStrip—Get excited, doctors! This app lets you stream a patients EKG over 3G, which is downright nuts. You can also zoom in and replay “cardiac events,” which are the kind of events you never want to have.

Star Defense—From ngmoco, it’s a tower defense game that looks a lot like Super Mario Galaxy. It’s available right now for $5.99. Here’s Kotaku’s review of it.

Pasco—This is an app for doing science experiments.

ZipCar—The ZipCar app lets you find nearby ZipCar lots, see what cars are available there and make reservations. Even cooler? Once you book your car, you can unlock it using your iPhone. Pretty awesome. More at Jalopnik.

Line 6—This app lets you plug in your guitar and change its sound as if it was plugged into different amps. You can make an electric sound acoustic, design your own guitar based on pickups, pickup configuration, body type and other factors, or make it sound tuned all on the iPhone.

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