Well, it’s around that time of year where rumors about a new iPhone and new services coming to AT&T and Apple start pouring in. A new rumor today, AT&T launching a Phone Trade-In program in June and perhaps in time for iPhone 4G or better yet, iPhone 3G 32GB? A 32GB iPhone has been in great demand and yet Apple hasn’t released it.

BGR claims they got some details on a Phone Trade-in program being planned to launch in June by AT&T.

Details:

• The phone being traded in can’t be more than two years old and must be in fair shape.
• The new phone will not have any subsidies applied to it, so basically whatever your trade-in covers will be your “savings”
• Trade-ins will be valued from $50 to $200

This seems rather reasonable. Phil Schiller’s, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing made a statement to David Pogue of New York Times at Macworld 2009 that iPhone’s annual product cycle is June, so the timing of this iPhone Trade-in program is rather interesting.

If the iPhone 4G or iPhone 3G 32GB or even one of the iPhones in our iPhone Concept post is released will you be upgrading? And do you think this iPhone Trade-in program is a good idea? Let us know in the comments!

The Boy Genius Report reports, Wal-Mart is to sell 4GB iPhones for $99 with a 2-year contract December 28th. Boy Genius Report is not entirely confident that this is true.

When Apple originally introduced the iPhone, it shipped in 4GB and 8GB models. A couple months later, Apple discontinued the 4GB model completely and dropped the price of the 8GB model. Apple, now, sells iPhones for $199 (8GB) and $299 (yup, you guess it, 16GB) with 2-year contracts. A 4GB iPhone model for $99 does make sense, but will it happen? $99 will be aggressive and will sell alot more iPhones. Only time will tell. Stay Tuned!

Rumors have been flying around the internet lately about Apple’s “Let’s Rock” event scheduled for 10AM PST in San Francisco tomorrow. The iPhone 2.1 release rumor can be nailed down to this ArsTechnica article which claims to have a good source and that Apple will be releasing iPhone 2.1 tomorrow with unexpected new features that were left out of beta releases.

Some people are speculating that it will be a solution the much complained about lack of Copy and Paste, others are saying it will be GPS speed and direction functionality. Let’s hope it’s both!

No matter what the new features may be if you have an unlocked or jailbroken iPhone or iPhone 3G DO NOT UPGRADE tomorrow. Wait until we hear what the iPhone Dev Team and others have to say about the compatibility of their software with the new firmware version. It is almost guaranteed they will need to update their software tools to adapt for the new iPhone 2.1.

What do you think the new features will be in iPhone 2.1? Leave a comment with your predictions.

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