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(Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) iPhone buyers looking for a healthy discount on a new phone can find one at their local RadioShack store, the company tweeted this week. The retailer is selling the 16GB iPhone 4S for $149.99, the 32GB edition for $249.99, and the 8GB iPhone 4 for $49, all three a full $50 off the retail price. The promotion is in-store only, so customers can’t score the lower price by ordering online. As expected, the sale price requires the usual two-year contract. Readmore

Break your iPhone in this case, and you’ll get a new one for free. Sounds like a pretty good deal, right? Meet Cellhelmet, a new protective iPhone case from a company called Cellpig. Originally started as a Kickstarter project, the cases recently went into production and are now available for retail sale.[More from Mashable: Why Microsoft Is Being Left in the Dust] “Originally, we wanted to create the most ‘indestructible’ case on the market, “ Mike Kane, CEO of Cellhelmet Readmore

(Credit: Apple) iPhone buyers have nothing to worry about, at least when it comes to carrier subsidies. Recent moves by two Spanish carriers to eliminate subsidies for new iPhone users triggered fears that other carriers could do the same. Removing the subsidy paid by carriers to Apple means buyers would have to shell out the full retail price for the phone. But Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty sees little or no chance of that trend spreading any further. In a research note published today, Readmore

When someone asks which carriers have the iPhone, what names pop into your head? First on the list of course, is ATT, followed by Verizon, then Sprint. After all, ATT was the first carrier to get the iPhone, and the only one to have it until Verizon got the iPhone 4 in 2010. When Sprint cut their own deal with Apple last year, they became the third of the four largest U.S. carriers to offer Apple’s flagship phone. T-Mobile, of course, still doesn’t have the iPhone. But what Readmore

T-Mobile has acknowledged internally that Apple’s iPhone offers a “poor customer experience” on its network, but the nation’s No.4 carrier is working as quickly as it can to change that. The company announced this past February that it will be performing upgrades to its network that bring faster data speeds to users who purchase an iPhone on their own and unlock it for use on T-Mobile, and on Tuesday the carrier said the work will be performed ahead of schedule. Apple has tested an iPhone Readmore