At today’s iPhone 5 event, Apple announced that its iOS 6 software update will be coming to the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, 4S and iPhone 5 on September 19th.
The iPhone 5 was introduced alongside price drops for the other devices in Apple’s lineup.
The pricing of the iPhone 5 stays the same as the iPhone 4S and it is available for pre-order immediately in 9 countries, with more available on the 28th. That’s $199 for 16GB, $299 for 32GB, and $399 for 64GB, along with 2-year carrier contract.
The initial countries are US, canada, UK, france, Germany, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore, with 21 more following on the 28th.
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The iPhone 4S drops to Free and the iPhone 4S drops to $99. The iPhone 3GS has been discontinued. All of the current devices will get the iOS 6 update. No mention was made of the iPhone 3GS but Apple did say that it would get it back in June.
A host of live blogs of today’s event including GDGT, The Verge, Engadget and Macworld are available.
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