End of life

This phone no longer gets security updates.

Support ended March 2011. Running it now means no new security patches.

The facts

Status: End of life
Security support ended: March 3, 2011
Latest OS: iOS 2 - 4
Released: July 11, 2008
Operating system: iOS
Category: Phone

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