Waze (iPhone app) does turn-by-turn navigation with real-time traffic information, etc.

TomTom has a great turn by turn voice app for iPhones....

Older iPhone 3GS 32gb here - no contract, factory unlock, jailbroke (have to love cydia), 5.1.1 iOS, handful of sims and $45 a month unlimited data, text and lots of voice time and I am ready to roll. Great phone - but a little slow - however I was able to hack Siri onto it - I love Siri.

Use it on my Android phone too. Really nice app.

Or Waze-but non of these free apps work unless you have cell service or wifi...Garmin does.

Today's the big day. Anyone buying?

I have (2) 3GS' on my account that are getting upgraded.

I'll be upgrading this month.

I have two 4s that I will be upgrading as soon as able. I wonder when the pre-orders will start?

I just switched over to Straight Talk (working fine, including the MMS, although I had to pay five bucks for a jailbreak app called TetherMe to update the settings). I also ordered a replacement battery and screen (mine has a couple of scratches in it) this week. If I get all those on and everything works as it should (I don't foresee any problems) essentially I'll have a brand new 4S on monthly service with unlimited talk/text/data and will be telling ATT to go take a long leap off a short pier. Should know for sure next week (this weekend I'll be sitting down to disassemble the phone and swap out all the pieces). If I can't get everything back together then I'll buy a iphone 5. :) win-win for me.

Ive been hanging on to a Palm Pre for a few years now and really need a new phone. I held out for the Pre 2.0 and that died on the vine. Now Ive been waiting for the iphone 5 forever. The 4S was not a good enough upgrade for me.

I'll upgrade to the 5 for LTE alone, anything else will be gravy.

However, I'm not in a big rush. We do the hand-down thing here, at this point we have two 4S and two 4, so maybe around Xmas or early next year I'll get a 5 and hand down my 4S to a kid.

A new iPad is on the shopping list before a 5. I've been using our original iPad as a replacement for my heavy company laptop, at conferences etc, and it has promise. Most companies won't support a personal laptop but many will support a personal iOS or Android device, at least for MSFT Exchange. Add a Bluetooth keyboard and you're set.

If anyone is interested, here is the plan I just received from ATT last week for iPhones.

5 iPhones.
Unlimited talk and text. We all share 10g of data per month. $ 241.00 / month

$48.20 per phone. This utilizes a corporate discount of 24%.

• iOS 6 release: September 19
• iPhone 5 pre-orders: Friday the 14th. Ship September 21st in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore

you can unlock your old phone here and then sell it as such... https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/client/en_US/

Looks like I'll be ordering new phones on Friday. Is this some sort of silly "get up at midnight and order" thing, or can I just order at 5:15 when I normally get up?

my wife(3gs) will order @ 12:01:)

it sux. i wanted there to be some OMG feature so my apple stock goes up. but what a disappointment

Looks like the final versions of the rumors were correct.

So the new iPhone 5 upgrades are:

(1) a four inch screen (done by Android over a year ago);

(2) new mapping software with voice directions (done by Android over a year ago);

(3) 4G LTE (done by Android around a year ago);

(4) a smaller connector (so it does not work with previous docking, charging and other accessories); and

(5) a better camera (done by everyone).

I think the worst thing for 'the latest and greatest Apple crowd' is that it still looks very similar to the iPhone 4 so people won't feel the need to upgrade as the new phone still looks the same!

No new technology or innovation-- Apple is done being the leader and the new team is just trying to keep up. Where are all the new 'WOW' ideas? I guess we will have to wait for the new iPad mini-- which is a 2/3 version of the current iPad with no other changes....