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Reports of Possible Upcoming 8 GB iPhone 3GS Revived

LagunaSol said:
My mom wants an iPhone. She doesn't need 16GB. I won't let her get a 3G without video recording and the faster processor. So we wait until the mythical 8GB 3GS makes an appearance.

Your move, Apple.



But some people do. It would be silly to exclude them by not offering a 3GS model at the $99 price point.
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I would like to point out that if she is going to use video recording then it will use space up, very, very quickly.

Just get the phone.
 
yg17 said:
Uhh....yeah? Germany?

T-Mobile exists outside the US.
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so the iPhone is sold for other carriers in other countrys?
I always assumed the AT&T exclusive contract was applied to AT&T itself, as a company in general- not just in the U.S.

weird.
 
Hmm... Fake I think. I have sold a ton of iPhones for Rogers and Fido and none of they actually have company logos on the box or a security sticker. and yes i'm talking about refurb boxes too.
 
I would love to see that box in the states, I would love to ditch this 2g iPhone for even a 8gb 3GS. I still say T-Mobile would be the best choice for another US carrier, but thats my opinion.
 
I would love to see that box in the states, I would love to ditch this 2g iPhone for even a 8gb 3GS. I still say T-Mobile would be the best choice for another US carrier, but thats my opinion.
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I agree with you, but I faintly remember t-mobile themselves saying they were still a bit immature (being one of the youngest) to handle the iPhone mass exodus from AT&T. Anyone else remember that or an I being delusional...?
 
koobcamuk said:
I can't be bothered to sort through my iTunes for music to put onto my phone and secondly; I don't actually listen to music much these days when I am not at my computer so I don't even need 8GB TBH...
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Same here. I have an original iPhone (2G) 8GB and I've never had it filled up. I only have about 1GB of music on it and the rest is all apps.

If an 8GB 3GS would cost considerably less then I'd probably get it over the 16GB.
 
jo0 said:
I agree with you, but I faintly remember t-mobile themselves saying they were still a bit immature (being one of the youngest) to handle the iPhone mass exodus from AT&T. Anyone else remember that or an I being delusional...?
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If you mean, could T-Mobile handle being the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in the US, I'm pretty sure most people would say, probably not. They have a shiny, new 3G network, but they haven't been building capacity as long as AT&T, and AT&T and other major providers (e.g. in the UK) can't handle the iPhone well either. iPhone users just use too much data. That's not their fault -- they're doing all the things Apple and the service providers encourage them to do. It's that the networks are catching up with the fact that they've been advertising, ever since 3G bowed, all kinds of services that are not sustainable on their networks when they have a mass of users using them. I'd suspect that Verizon, if they had a mass of users using the volumes of data that iPhone users do, would also get bogged down by it, at least in population centers.
 
Has anyone else noticed that normal Apple Refurbished iphones come in the brown boxes and that this is likely a t-mobile refurbished (e.g. 14 day money back guarantee) and they have to create new labels to stick onto their boxes and it could just of been a mistake when creating them. Hence all other model numbers are correct and the S is a simple mistake from them not editing it out of the refurbished 16GB/32GB 3GS box and documentation. AKA Someone being lazy.
 
While I could definitely imagine them doing this, but logistically, it just doesn't make sense. To ramp up production and create advertisements, new boxes, new documentation, etc. all for the next 5-6 months seems unlikely. I dunno... it just seems ridiculous to believe they'd start now...
 
SPNarwhal said:
so the iPhone is sold for other carriers in other countrys?
I always assumed the AT&T exclusive contract was applied to AT&T itself, as a company in general- not just in the U.S.

weird.
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jo0 said:
I agree with you, but I faintly remember t-mobile themselves saying they were still a bit immature (being one of the youngest) to handle the iPhone mass exodus from AT&T. Anyone else remember that or an I being delusional...?
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There is no chance that ATT has an effective data network without roaming in all the iPhone-carrying countries in the world.
T-Mobile may not be that hot in the United States, but overseas, in quite a bit of Europe, it could very well be considered the best. (Barring UK)
 
ogee said:
Price perhaps ?
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I have two friends that recently (within the past few weeks) bought the 8GB 3G version solely because it's $99, in spite of me telling them they will eventually wish they had the faster processor in the 16GB 3GS model for running some of the apps and games from the app store.

Same issue for the low-end iPod Touch...
 
newdeal said:
I have an 8gb iphone 3g and I have tons of space left over. I don't see any reason why they would need to continue bumping space at this point unless they bring hardware that can run more advanced software, but even then people are buying 60gb SSDs for their computer so surely they dont need anywhere close to that much space on a phone.
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Perhaps because different people have different use cases? I own a ton of music, way more then can fit on even a 32GB iPhone. While I realize 32GB holds plenty of music in terms of length of play, it doesn't allow me to get the variety I'd like. I'd love a 64GB or 128GB iPhone so that I don't have to constantly sync and figure out what I do and don't want to include, particularly since the tools for doing so aren't very good in iTunes.
 
ChazUK said:
I'd rather see a 3GS with an SDHC slot myself with the choice to upgrade capacity as I went.
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1) SDHC is way too large to put in the current iPhone design. Apple can only cram one flash chip in there instead of two like the iPod touch does, so I don't think that's going to help.

2) SDHC or any removable media is going to be way slower than onboard flash. I can't think of the last thing Apple did to make any of its products slower.
 
dvdhsu said:
T-Mobile may not be that hot in the United States, but overseas, in quite a bit of Europe, it could very well be considered the best. (Barring UK)
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It's merging with the best in the UK tho... We're about to lose a network in the UK
 
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