Apple is excited to announce that the latest version of their popular iPhone line, the 3G S, has gone ahead and sold over 1 million copies since its June 19th release date. Apple front-man Steve Jobs was on hand to comment on the phone’s success:

Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning. With over 50,000 applications available from Apple’s revolutionary App Store, iPhone momentum is stronger than ever.

But that’s not all Apple was pleased to announce as they also let us know that the latest iPhone OS version, version 3.0, has been downloaded over 6 million times since it was released last week.

Does anyone out there still doubt that Apple is attempting to take over the world?

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In case you were angry with Apple and AT&T for the whole activation delay mess then you should know that the Cupertino-based company is apologizing with a $30 iTunes gift card.

Here’s what the email says:

Dear Apple Customer,

Thank you for your recent Apple Store order. We appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience caused by the delay in your iPhone activation.

We are still resolving the issue that was encountered while activating your iPhone with AT&T. Unfortunately, due to system issues and continued high activation volumes, this could take us up to an additional 48 hours to complete.

On Monday, you’ll receive an email from Apple with an iTunes Store credit in the amount of $30. We hope you will enjoy this gift and accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience this delay has caused.

Thank you for choosing Apple.

Sincerely,
Apple Online Store Team

As you can see the credit will be available this Monday so go ahead and take advantage of it right away!

via Gizmodo

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What phone is better you ask? The Palm Pre, the iPhone 3G S or the iPhone 3G? Would it really matter or would end up getting your favorite phone no matter how fast it is?

According to some recent testing the iPhone 3G S is 128% faster at loading web pages than the iPhone 3G while the iPhone 3G S overall performance is 22.6% better than the Pre’s. During testing the iPhones were running iPhone 3.0 OS while the Pre was running webOS v1.0.2.

via anandtech

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If you’re asking yourself what a Bing is then go ahead and Google it right now. If you know what Bing is then you’re laughing your ass off right now. I guess you did some laughing a while ago when you heard Microsoft was prolonging the life of its kinda-successful Windows XP didn’t you? But to hear that Microsoft is willing to offer a 35% off the new iPhone 3G S program is more than hilarious.

Microsoft will offer let you take advantage of it’s Cashback Program only through the new Bing search engine. What do you have to know? Well first of all you have to qualify for an iPhone 3G S upgrade and then follow the steps below:

New AT&T customers:

1. Visit ATT Wireless website and validate your email address with Premier.
2. Check your email and click the link to your ATT Premier Store.
3. Open a new tab with the same browser that your ATT Premier Store is open in.
4. Go to bing.com in the new tab and search “att wireless”
5. Click the 35% CashBack Sponsored Link
6. Sign into your CashBack account and get redirected to the main AT&T Wireless page.
7. In the top right enter the term “Premier” into the search bar.
8. Click the first link that reads “at&t premier login”
9. You will get directed to the same Premier store you have open in the original tab.
10. Congratulations, you are in the Premier store under the CashBack AT&T Site

Existing Customers:

1. Go to bing.com
2. Search “ATT WIRELESS”
3. Click the AT&T sponsored link, you will redirected (after you enter your email) to either the regular AT&T store or the Premier store depending on which account you have
4. Log in to your account and make your purchase.
5. The cashback will show up as “pending” after a couple of hours.
6. If it takes more than 48 hours for the cashback to show up, contact bing’s customer service then you will asked for your order number, method of payment ( I attached my whole purchase order to the email): You cash will show up within hours

What will you do?

via Slick Deals

So far, there hasn’t been any confirmation that this actually works, so if you try it, make sure to let us know how it worked out&.

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Now that the iPhone 3G S has been out for a full day people are turning in all sorts of reports. Especially since the new phone is close enough to what everyone wanted since the first generation iPhone. One of the improvements of the 3G S is supposed to be the 3G connectivity. The iPhone 3G S could, at least on paper, use that 7.2Mbps 3G speed but it looks like it doesn’t really do that. First of all, AT&T is still working on upgrading its network to 7.2Mbps, and, unless you live in Chicago, you won’t be getting speeds anywhere near that. As you can see from the test screenshot above, the 3G S is indeed faster but the added speed isn’t significant. In fact it’s all thanks to the new processor of the phone. In other words, you’ll still have to wait for a faster 3G connectivity so better postpone upgrading to iPhone 3G S if all you want is just faster download and upload speeds. Maybe next year when Apple will launch the iPhone LTE, AT&T/Verizon customers will be able to surf the Internet on the go at speeds of 7.2Mbps and beyond.

via Engadget

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Is the iPhone 3G S going to be more successful than the iPhone 3G was in its first sales weekend? Well if we are to believe AT&T it looks that “hundreds of thousands” have pre-ordered the iPhone 3G S. That’s what Ralph De La Vega, president of AT&T has declared in an interview with CNBC. So what is the real number so far? How many hundreds of thousands have pre-ordered the new iPhone? Ten? If you were a betting person would you bet for or against Apple and AT&T selling more than a million phones in the first weekend? What can Sprint say now about its record Pre sales?

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As you can see from the pictures above the iPhone 3G S didn’t convince people to sit in a line for it. In 2007, back when the iPhone was a hot new product, people were really anxious to get their hands on the new device but know the interest seems to have diminished. The new iPhone brings some important updates to the table but if you’re not into better graphics or video recording than your old iPhone 3G packing iPhone 3.0 OS is probably the phone you actually wanted to buy a year ago. After around 20 million iPhones sold worldwide is the new version going to be a hit or not? Is it the harder economic times or the fact that the iPhone 3G S can’t conveniently come to your house now? Or is it that people don’t qualify for the iPhone 3G S subsidized upgrade? Remember folks, the iPhone is available now in the USA, Canada and a few European countries. If you spot a line, drop us a line!

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The phone hasn’t even hit store shelves worldwide yet and already the guys over at Rapid Repair have managed to pick one up an iPhone 3G S at a Paris, France midnight release and torn the phone apart for your viewing pleasure.

If you’re looking to find out how to do your own iPhone 3G S tear down or just want to watch Apple’s latest and greatest handset offering head here. Unfortunately the phone’s innards have yet to be analyzed but we’ll keep you posted.

And if you haven’t been paying attention the iPhone 3G S will hit store shelves in the US later today, June 19th.

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Besides Apple and AT&T, Best Buy will also sell the new iPhone 3G S starting tomorrow. A Google Docs spreadsheet was made public and according to sources it represents the full iPhone 3G S stock that Best Buy has available now. You’ll have to take a chance when choosing where to camp but if you’re lucky enough you’ll be able to walk out a Best Buy store with a new iPhone 3G S in your hands in no time. Unfortunately you’ll also have to be one of the first 17,580 people ready to purchase the iPhone 3G S from a Best Buy store. What do you think your chances are?

via macrumors

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