This week has been hectic for fans of the apple 3g iphone. Steven P. Jobs, chief executive of Apple, introduced a new cheaper iPhone model on Monday the 9th of June. The new iphone navigates the Internet more quickly, expanded its distribution overseas and displayed a range of new applications and services in order to establish Apple as a major player in the cellphone industry. The most amazing thing that effects consumers is the price, just shy of $200 for the 8g ($199) and the big brother 16g for a shocking $299. This price slashing is nothing new to the apple marketing front, as they did the same price cut for the ipod nano back in 2007.

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The most pleasing aspect of the iphone for the South African market is that it will be finally sold here. However, don’t think you can just rush down to digicape or any apple store, No! It is exclusively sold by Vodacom to their network subscribers. But still, with a “projected” price of R4000 for the 8g, thats still not a bad option when a nokia N95 is priced at around R5000.