The link is for the lucky few of us who can speak Dutch. Anyway, they were so eager to get a real piece in their collection, that they flew one in from the States.
So when you make a visit to The Hague this summer, do not forget to see the real iPhone there;

muscom.nl

The iPhone will launch in Europe in Q4, slightly later than some of its partners had suggested.
Apple has confirmed that the iPhone will launch in Europe in Q4, slightly later than some of its partners had suggested.

Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO, said following the announcement of the company’s Q3 results that Europe iPhone partners would be revealed later this quarter. He also revealed the scale of the iPhone’s success in the U.S., claiming 270,000 iPhones were sold during the first 30 hours the handset was on sale.

read it all here pcworld

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German department store chain Karstadt will sell Apple’s coveted iPhone, Karstadt said on Monday, adding that it was too soon to say whether the phones would be sold with or without a contract.

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Vodafone has dropped the biggest hint yet that European mobile networks have been demanding Apple offer 3G support in the iPhone.

Vodafone Group chief executive Arun Sarin called the lack of 3G support in the iPhone a “concern.”

“The iPhone is clearly a good, software-driven device, but we’re concerned about wideband area coverage. 3G (capability) is something we look forward to and hope Apple moves forward to soon,” Sarin said, Reuters reported.

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Amazon has listed Apple’s hybrid iPod and mobile phone on its UK store. But the iPhone isn’t available for sale via Amazon in the UK. Amazon has listed Apple products before launch in the past. At times it has let slip confidential details such as shipping date or final price in advance of any official announcement from Apple.

Read it here pcadvisor.co.uk

Mobile operator O2 is set to announce that it’s beaten rival Vodafone to win the UK contract to sell Apple’s iPhone.

Several reports this morning claim O2 will have the iPhone on sale in the UK before Christmas for either £300 or £399. Apple’s iPhone – which went on sale in the US last week – ships with either 4GB or 8GB of storage.

Read it here techworld

T-Mobile, the mobile arm of German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom, has beaten rival Vodafone in the battle to win the marketing rights for Apple’s iPhone in Germany, the regional daily Rheinische Post reported on Wednesday.

Read it here france24

ALL FOUR of the UK’s mobile phone networks have been variously tipped to take on European distribution for Apple’s forthcoming Iphone.
The fifth network, 3, is ruled out because the Iphone ain’t 3G and 3 doesn’t do 2.5G.

read it here uk.theinquirer.net

AMSTERDAM (Reuters)—Vodafone is in talks with Apple to launch the U.S. firm’s iPhone combined music player and telephone in Europe, and talks partly hinge on volume guarantees and subsidies, a Dutch magazine reported.

Apple demanded a guaranteed sales volume for the iPhone, which the British mobile operator did not want to give, Dutch magazine Bright said on its Web site late Tuesday.

CNNMoney’s Allen Wastler gives his take on the way Apple has been promoting the iPhone and the lack of access given to journalists.

read it here money.cnn

Fifty-six per cent of Brits have heard of the iPhone and some 7 million of us are interested in getting one when the device launches in the UK.

Though the iPhone is due to go on sale on 29 June in the US, a UK launch date has yet to be announced and the product might not become available here until next year.

read it here webuser.co.uk

Apple might choose a retail-only strategy when it launches its iPhone in Europe, as operators are complaining about the firm’s arrogant demands.

“Operators consistently told us, not for attribution, of course, that they had spoken to Apple and found the company ‘unbelievably arrogant’, making demands that ‘simply cannot be justified no matter how hot the product is’,” Avi Greengart, a principal analyst at Current Analysis, wrote in an advisory on Monday.

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PARIS: Few mobile phones have created more buzz before becoming a reality than Apple’s iPhone.

For weeks, European übergeeks and telecommunications analysts have been angling for a chance to sign the nondisclosure agreement Apple requires before bestowing devices on early users.

For the rest of us in Europe, there are two crucial questions: When and how?

read it here iht

The iPhone looks set to make a big impression when it launches in Europe.

A pair of Europe/UK surveys published today reveal that almost half of Europe’s iPod users participating in its 2,000-person pan-European survey by Canalys said that they are likely to consider Apple for their next mobile phone.

read it here macworld.co.uk

The results of last month’s Shiny Media iPhone survey are in, and it makes for some interesting reading.
With 487 respondents, it’s the UK’s largest iPhone survey to date.

Who’s getting it?
* 7.6% say they’re definitely getting an iPhone.
* Another 46.2% say they’re seriously considering it, depending on the deal they get.
* 17.4% will get it if there’s nothing better on the market.
* 4.8% will definitely not get it.

read it here techdigest.tv

Everyone and their brother(s) have been trying to predict which mobile phone network will get the nod as Apple’s European partner for the iPhone, and it appears Apple is getting closer to a decision. Apple and the European carriers are hoping that big iPhone sales will make the exclusive distribution a lucrative one, so of course Apple is taking its sweet time in choosing a European carrier for the launch.

Wow, the Apple iPhone is great isn’t it! Ever since the first day that the iPhone was announced and appeared on that huge stage & screen I knew that I’d want one.

Apple’s $499/$599 iPhone still on track for late June in the US, however there has been no release date for the gadget here in Ireland/Europe (that I am aware of, please correct me if I am wrong).

One problem - How much is the iPhone going to be by the time it is launched in Ireland


read it here tigerplug.wordpress

In the very unscientific poll I took while attending the S60 Summit in Madrid this week, most Europeans I spoke with said the iPhone is “worthless without 3G.” They are also unconvinced that the touchscreen interface will allow them to send SMS messages quickly. Will the iPhone be DOA overseas?

read it here informationweek

Last year wasn’t exactly auspicious for German mobile-phone components maker Balda. The company issued two profit warnings, shed 70% of its 2,400 German workers, and ended the year with a loss equal to 13% of sales. So why would a heavy hitter such as Apple Inc. (AAPL) hand Balda a contract to make the touch screens that are the most important design element of the much-anticipated iPhone?

read it here businessweek

Buried inside a Guardian article about how Google is hunting for a manufacturer for its Google Phone is an interesting snippet of information about the iPhone.

read it here mad4mobilephones

This is a summary of the most probable release dates of the Apple iPhone.
Just in case you were still wondering.

USA: June, 11 2007
Europe: September 2007
Asia: End of 2007
Australia: Beginning of 2008

Jobs’ iPhone demo was so powerful that he actually made people believe that Apple invented a whole new user interface. In fact, Apple did something more important than that. The company took some of the best—hitherto obscure—UI research and put it into a product that you will be able to buy.

read it here digitmag.co.uk

Yes, the iPhone’s going to be expensive. We’ve dealt with that and moved on. What you might not realise is that, for the money, iPhone’s a lot better value that the Windows-powered alternative.

read it here t3.co.uk

Such is the sway of Apple’s yet-to-be-released gadget that it has, in subtle ways, shaped the agenda of the mobile-telecommunications industry’s largest annual gathering.

read it here popmatters

Charles Dunstone, CEO of Carphone Warehouse, Europe’s largest retailer of mobile phones with 2,070 stores, wants an iPhone - lots of them - under his Christmas tree, and his alone, this year.
While giving the company’s quarterly results, Dunstone said he’s after an exclusive deal with Apple to sell iPhones in the UK. On the company’s website there is already a pre-order form to get your new iPhone.

read it here theregister

Here is a fair compare of the iPhone and the LG touch screen phone, OSX is not Flash.

read all the details here macdailynews