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iPhone 3GS

Apple released one product on 19 June 2009: iPhone 3GS.

It was the 8th of 11 dated moments the archive holds for 2009, 11 days after the previous one, 8 June 2009.

iPhone 3GS product photograph

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What Apple released

iPhone 3GS

iPhone · iPhone · discontinued 24 June 2010

The iPhone 3GS, stylized as iPhone 3G🅂, is a smartphone that was developed and marketed by Apple. It is the third generation of the iPhone and the successor to the iPhone 3G. It was unveiled on June 8, 2009, at the WWDC 2009, which took place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

According to Phil Schiller, a key figure at Apple, the “S” in “3GS” stands for “Speed.” Improvements included performance, a 3-megapixel camera with higher resolution and video ability, voice control, and support for 7.2 Mbit/s HSDPA downloads. It was released in the United States, Canada, and six European countries on June 19, 2009, in Australia and Japan on June 26, and elsewhere internationally in July and August 2009.

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  1. iPhone 3GS · Wikipedia

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