{"id":111889,"date":"2009-12-29T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/f51f863c0f3487bb340a2feab647b65a"},"modified":"2009-12-29T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T19:30:00","slug":"article-8-gb-apple-iphone-3gs-to-launch-at-the-99-price-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/111889","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: 8 GB Apple iPhone 3GS to launch at the $99 price point?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2009\/12\/90003-showimage.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"175\" width=\"498\"><\/p>\n<p>With a $99 price tag, the Apple iPhone 3G is perfect for the person that doesn&#8217;t need the extra storage space, processor enhancements, or other goodies that come with the 3GS model.&nbsp; That being said, another model is rumored to launch in June, so it&#8217;s assumed that the low-end model will be refreshed.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <em>Gizmodo<\/em>, a German user<em> <\/em>reported receiving a replacement for his 8 GB iPhone 3G.&nbsp; Though the device was in fact a standard 3G model, the box clearly indicated &#8220;iPhone 3GS, 8GB.&#8221;&nbsp; So we&#8217;re either looking at a typo on the box, or a complete mismatch between old and new packaging.&nbsp; One thing is for sure: launching the 3GS at the $99 price point would re-raise the bar on other sub-$100 smartphones in the arena.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we&#8217;ll hear more at the Apple event on January 26th.&nbsp; Any speculations out there?<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phonearena.com\/htmls\/Apple-poised-to-release-the-8GB-iPhone-3GS-for-99-article-a_8460.html\" >PhoneArena<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/xMTPCeVCmH_umdBqzmpATe_8cv8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/xMTPCeVCmH_umdBqzmpATe_8cv8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/xMTPCeVCmH_umdBqzmpATe_8cv8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/xMTPCeVCmH_umdBqzmpATe_8cv8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/vqDFm48hSuc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a $99 price tag, the Apple iPhone 3G is perfect for the person that doesn&#8217;t need the extra storage space, processor enhancements, or other goodies that come with the 3GS model.&nbsp; That being said, another model is rumored to launch in June, so it&#8217;s assumed that the low-end model will be refreshed. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}