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Also - there is only 1 current version of the iPhone available at any time. Compare this to the iPad (Regular vs. Mini), iPod (Touch, Nano, Shuffle), Macbook (Air, Pro).

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Not true- they still sell the iPhone 4 as a cut-price version of the 4S. And they sold the 3GS when the 4 was the top model. Expect them to do the same- sell the 4S alongside the 5.

Note that they still sell the 3GS, right now.

I assume that once the 5 ships, the 4S will become the cheaper model, and the 4 will become the really-cheap model that the 3GS currently is.

With the rumored iPad Mini, they just might continue making the 3GS instead of the 4. A non-retina cheapo iPhone option makes sense for prepaid and free phones, and it's supposedly the same display PPI as the iPad Mini, so it could share a lot of components.

I know they still sell the iPhone 4 and 4s, and think they may even still sell the 3gs.

They sell all 3 right off their site:

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iph...

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