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And now for the irony: it’ll be no right a buy as opposed to how you can obtain at ye olde Apple or AT&T store. Best Buy legally gets the chiefly third-party retailer in the US to sale the iPhone in an official capacity — 3G or otherwise — when it launches the iPhone 3G in Other 970 stores additonally an extra 18 dedicated Mobile settings on September 7 for the same $199 and $299 price level points at last found elsewhere. Quoth Best Buy Mobile’s CEO, “We had a lot of spinrt to do, obviously, to get in a position at which Apple and AT&T may feel wonderful throughout Best Buy Mobile carrying it, and that is how we have carried out in the go on 18 months.” In larger number of words, now has continued a quite persistent endeavor to rating the third-party exclusive basically from the time of the earliest ideal was announced, and it is easily now using off. There’s no proof on how the addition of Best Buy to the US dealings mix am able to effect creation or distribution, but at lowest there’ll be one larger amount of place to try to see Other frickin’ stock.

While particular charges once any firmware update are to be expected, there appears to be a reached the conclusion uptick in the rate of studies of queries investing in the iPhone’s GPS (ranging out of total wonkiness to all out failure) following the several current 2.0.1 update. As the responses on the MacRumors forums indicate, however, the topics are far according to throughout the council (or confined to the iPhone 3G), and GPS matters haven’t spot on continued which rare of an arrival before presently current update either. So, we will open it up to you, dear readers — suffer you had any newfound iPhone GPS problems?

We’re not exactly sure what was going on with that whole on-again / off-again love affair with iPhones having gratis access to AT&T WiFi hotspots, but we’re content with letting bygones be bygones. On the slightly tweaked iPhone “Plans” page, the carrier now lists “Access to AT&T WiFi hotspots” as an included feature along with call forwarding, 3-way calling and Caller ID. Sure, it’s not a bona fide press release, but same difference, right?

[Via MacRumors]

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We’re not exactly sure what was going on with that whole on-again / off-again love affair with iPhones having gratis access to AT&T WiFi hotspots, but we’re content with letting bygones be bygones. On the slightly tweaked iPhone “Plans” page, the carrier now lists “Access to AT&T WiFi hotspots” as an included feature along with call forwarding, 3-way calling and Caller ID. Sure, it’s not a bona fide press release, but same difference, right?

[Via MacRumors]

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The headline kind of says it all, but if you weren’t already sure enough that the first gen iPhone’s stint in the UK was coming to a close, O2’s pushing to make things crystal clear. It’s hard to imagine both companies are going to just stop selling such a high profile device for too long, but clearly we’re all still in the dark as to when its 3G replacement will officially be out.

[Thanks, Keith]

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For those that need to be in the know about the very latest supposedly-leaked 3G iPhone shots that hit the web this week, we’ve got you covered — but we’re not convinced, especially of the device on the right. The shots on the left do at least seem to be crafted around those supposed size and shape leaks we saw the other day though, so bonus points there for playing into another current rumor to rack up a small bit of credibility. Still, in our best Rick James voice, Photoshop’s a hell of a tool.

Read - Left four shots appear on Chinese phone forum
Read - Shot on the right from AppleInsider

Just a day after we heard that Vodafone was taking the iPhone on a world tour, in comes word that Apple’s darling will be headed to Latin America via America Movil. We aren’t told if the deal is one of exclusive nature, nor were we given a specific launch date, but residents of 16 countries in Latin America will have their shot at latching onto an iPhone sometime “this year.” Huzzah!

[Thanks, Jesus]

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A friendly neighborhood AT&T employee forwarded us a purported memo for AT&T retail store employees that could provide a rather telling clue about the next-gen iPhone’s release date this summer if it proves true. A similar memo went out last year around this time requesting that employees not take any vacations between June 15 and July 15, and this year those dates are June 15 and July 12 — which seems suspiciously early, but that’s what the man says. The memo cites “an exciting Summer Promotional Launch,” which we’re guessing doesn’t refer to some new Motorola flip phone. Also telling is the fact that employees might be able to take some vacations later within that window when things die down a bit, which seems to imply that Apple could be aiming for a launch date right around the iPhone’s one year anniversary of June 29th. How romantic.

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We’ve gotta hand it to them: electronics conmen are extremely confident in their belief in the ignorance of the masses. Gaze at the unbelievably poor “Ipod [sic] style Mobile Phone iPhone” rendition above, and then suck in the £75 (around $150) pricetag. It comes complete with an iPod-esque white finish, Mac OS X wallpaper, and a strange Quicktime skin for the included media player, but the kicker has got to be the modified Apple logo — as if the extra leaf is going to fool anyone.

[Thanks, John Derbyshire]

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Vodafone’s just got a tiny, minor, insignificant announcement to make this morning: it’s signed with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten markets, including Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy (so much for Telecom Italia), India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey. Expect the phone later this year — that’s all we know for now. Score one (or ten?) for Voda.

[Thanks, iB3nji]

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