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Here we go – the Apple iPhone 3GS has been officially announced in all its glory! The s stands for speed, apparently, as it’s faster than any iPhone before it. 7.2Mbps HSDPA, OpenGL/ES version 2 for super-fast 3D graphics, 3.2 megapixel camera complete with auto-focus and auto-exposure – nice!

More details after the jump (the details are being live-blogged courtesy of Gizmodo and Twitter, so refresh to read more!)

Here we go – the announcement from Apple of the new Apple iPhone, live from Apple WWDC conference (via Gizmodo and Twitter – I’m not actually in San Francisco, worse luck!). Not expecting much, but we’ll see what’s on offer.

Apple have opened by saying that some 40,000,000 iPhone and iPod Touches have been sold. That’s a huge number! They’re pushing the iPhone as a games machine big time. I suspect Nintendo won’t be too worried, but Sony certainly will.

It’s got cut and paste and – wait for it – MMS! Lol! Two years in production and it’s only released MMS. As I suspected, this doesn’t sound like too much of a new phone – more just an incremental update.

More details after the jump (keep refreshing to see more – I’m writing this as you’re reading!)

As promised earlier, the new iPhone 3G has finally been announced by Steve Jobs at the Apple WWDC Developers Conference in San Francisco. The key features the new iPhone brings to the table are integrated a-GPS, 3G, and a cheaper price. And, er, that’s it! To be fair, Apple have also released an updated iPhone interface (called, somewhat unsurprisingly, iPhone 2.0), but given that it’s also available as a download for existing iPhones, it’s not exactly fair to claim this as part of the new phone, any more than Nokia’s new mapping application (yup, Nokia Maps 2.0) makes the N95 a brand new phone.

Full details of the new iPhone 3G after the jump.

Just as Apple fanboys are being whipped into hysteria over the iPhone 2 with an expected announcement at 6pm this evening at the Apple WWDC Developers Conference, Samsung comes along and dumps all over their party with the announcement of the Samsung i900 Omnia.

Now Samsung announcing a new phone is nothing new; indeed, the Korean manufacturer has so many phones in its line-up it seemingly announces one every day.

But the Samsung i900 Omnia is different from the rest. With a 3.2″ haptic touchscreen interface, 7.2Mbps HSDPA connectivity, built-in GPS and Wi-Fi, and a gloriously updated touchscreen interface, it’s nothing less than Samsung’s very own iPhone 2 challenger.

Has it got what it takes to take on the latest Apple Jesus-phone? Find out after the jump…

The iPhone 2 is due to be announced later today at the Apple WWDC Developer’s Conference. Of course, Apple haven’t officially announced that the iPhone 2 will be presented at the conference, but it’s an open secret that it will be on display, and given that there are no more stocks left of the original 8GB iPhone in either the US or the UK, Apple need to release it real soon if they’re to keep the momentum going for their famed Jesus Phone.

Quite what we have to look forward to isn’t yet known, but these leaked photos (or fakes? We’ll know later today) give us something of a taste for what we can expect.

More details of the Apple iPhone 2 after the jump.

Just when you thought the Apple iPhone hype had died down, we have surprising news that there are no more 8GB iPhones on sale in the UK. Carphone Warehouse has completely run out of stock, all online stores are telling their affiliates not to promote it anymore (no point, really, as there aren’t any to sell!), O2 only have a few more left in their stores, and no more additional stock is expected. What’s going on? Is this the end of the iPhone in the UK?…

Apple has finally announced the release date for the UK Apple iPhone. It will be coming out on 9th November, will be carried by O2, sold via O2, Carphone Warehouse and Apple stores on an 18 month contract, and the 8GB model will cost £269 (or £69 more than it costs in the US).

Despite rumours suggesting the UK iPhone will come with 3G, in fact it won’t – it’s the same iPhone sold in the US, with just EDGE mobile connectivity.

To help offset this lack of speedy connectivity, O2 have created an agreement with Wi-Fi provider Cloud to provide 7,500 free Wi-Fi hotspots around the country.

In addition, you get unlimited EDGE data for a fixed monthly tariff of £35 (other tariffs of £45 and £55 a month are also on offer, and feature more free minutes and free texts), so at least you don’t have to worry about paying for the content you download.

However, there is, of course, a catch…

More details on the UK Apple iPhone after the jump.

More 3G iPhone rumours doing the rounds, this time from wireless chip and DSP sector analyst Will Strauss of Forward Concepts.

Strauss is convinced that Apple are working on a 3G iPhone, and expects it to be announced at the same time that Apple announces which operator it has chosen for the iPhone in each European country in which it will be sold. According to EETimes, this announcement “…is expected imminently, and could come as soon as this week.”

Why wait for the iPhone, though, when you can get the same user interface in the Apple iPod Touch, which is out now and much cheaper.

More details after the jump.

If you’ve just bought a new iPhone and have $200 in your pocket that’s burning a hole, you could do worse than buy the new iPort media streamer.

This will house your iPhone (or iPod, for that matter), and let you control it no matter where you are in your house – assuming you have your home fully networked, of course!

Conveniently, the price is a mere $200, which is exactly the amount that the iPhone was reduced in price by…uncanny!

[Source: MediaMentalism]

Strong rumours have emerged of the spec for the European iPhone. The US version, if you recall, looks fantastic, but the deal breaker is the lack of 3G. Now this might not be too much of a problem in the US, where 3G isn’t exactly ubiquitous, but in Europe, it’s a serious flaw, as we have smartphones that really are smart, as opposed to Motorola Qs.

Using a Web browser over a crawling GPRS or EDGE connection is not a pleasant experience, no matter how fancy the user interface.

All this might change for the European version, though, with rumours predicting a 16GB iPhone being released onto an unsuspecting public, with HSDPA connectivity.

More details after the jump.