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


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Apple’s iPhone is on track to ship in late June, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer was quoted by a Reuters report as saying.

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Apple fanatics who can’t wait for the June launch of Apple’s new iPhone got a little treat to tease them over the weekend: a photo allegedly taken with an iPhone popped up on Flickr.

The photo has since been taken down, but the data included with the images suggests it was taken with one of the as yet unreleased devices, and the specs seem to match with what Apple has promised for the iPhone. The photographer is apparently an Apple employee, but many bloggers noted that the EXIF data posted on Flickr can be easily edited.

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Apple has confirmed plans to bring full-length feature films to its iTunes Store in Europe during an interview with a French newspaper this week. Apple vice president Pascal Cagni, who oversees the company’s European endeavors, confirmed that the company will launch its iPhone in Europe in the fourth quarter of 2007.

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Just how slippery is Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone?

Scattered reports from people who have put their hands on pre-release models say that its main problem is not the rumored battery-life shortfall, but the sleek, slippery surface.

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Despite the fervor and enthusiasm over Apple’s upcoming iPhone, some additional roadblocks may remain. LG Electronics has recently published a pair of patents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office that may impair Apple’s ability to create future iPhone designs.

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For over a year and a half, I have been liberated from the device that ties many of you down: the cell phone. I have no regrets related to ditching the overpriced service. If I need to make a phone call that badly, I find a phone. Due to this, I haven’t been that tempted by the iPhone, but regardless I still find all of the talk fairly interesting.

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Insanely Great Tees is hosting its first big contest to give away an iPhone for the best 30-second video ad for Apple’s forthcoming iPhone, Speck Products is offering a 20 percent discount on orders of two or more MacBook SeeThru cases for Apple’s 13-inch MacBook or 15-inch MacBook Pro, Peachpit is releasing several new books related to Apple’s Final Cut Studio 2 software, and Telestream has launched a trade-in program for its Episode Series desktop media encoding applications for Mac users.

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Financial analyst Sramana Mitra offers an interesting new perspective on the iPhone, suggesting that the folks who really ought to be worried about the forthcoming wondergadget are Windows laptop makers.

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An existing $1.25 billion dollar arrangement between Apple and the world’s largest memory makers was designed to secure the iPod maker an ample supply of NAND flash memory through 2010, but Apple is now reported to be asking for even more chips ahead of iPhone.
Taiwan-based DigiTimes, which wavers in accuracy but has recently nailed a scoop or two, is reporting that Apple has been in talks with Samsung for the purchase of a volume of NAND flash to be used in all iPods and iPhones from June to year-end.

read it here appleinsider